Thursday, November 15, 2007
The Star of David is the E8 Root
As I was reviewing Garrett Lisi's paper, An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything (6 Nov 2007), I noticed with some astonishment that the root of E8 -- the fundamental core of this pattern - is the symbol used to represent the Star of David.
Garrett Lisi's paper is available here: http://www.arxiv.org/pdf/0711.0770