Recently, Professor Jianda Wu’s research team from the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in collaboration with Professor Jie Ma from the School of Physics and Astronomy and ...

Beautiful quasiparticles: E8 symmetry has been spotted in a magnet An unusual form of symmetry known as E8 – which some physicists believe underlies a theory of everything – may have been spotted in a ...

The "exceptionally simple theory of everything," proposed by surfing physicist Garrett Lisi, does not hold water, according to some mathematicians. Centered on the elegant E8 structure, they use ...

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It’s what chic geeks are wearing this year, a T-shirt emblazoned with Garrett Lisi’s E8 theory of everything. On the front of the shirt is a 2D projection of the E8 lattice, which itself occupies ...