Ongoing Process

It seems that an unemployed surfer recently set the physics world abuzz with "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" that’s supposed to describe the whole of reality.  It’s closely involved with some math thing called E8.  I don’t have a clue what it’s actually about, but it’s really beautiful.

Here’s a 2D representation:

And here’s an animation of it that’s even more striking:

e8rotation.mov (10.5MB, but worth it!)

Having spent the last week up to my neck in alchemical imagery, the video is especially evocative.

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