A Lie Group
American Institute of Mathematics/Peter McMullenThis is a 2 demensional image of an 8 demensional object of a 248 demensional symmetries. Math and physics blows my mind. I'll stick to microbes
this image come from 70 hours of supercomputing effort to define a Lie group called E8. Lie groups are mathmatical series that define all of the operations that can be performed on a object without changing it.
posted by Mad Scientist @ 4:34 PM
3 Comments:
it kinda looks like a microbe... a multidimensional one.
(don't know much about Lie groups, sorry)-insomniac
Insomniac- I pulled that image and information from the science magazine article. I had never heard of Lie groups before. Math still blows my mind. I have a hard enough time dealing with 3 demensions. How do they calculate things in 8 let alone 200!
calculation is easy... instead of 2 or 3 coordinates there are 8 or 200 or whatever...
visualization is hard!-insomniac
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