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Published online 19 March 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070319-4
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Journey to the 248th dimension
Map of weird mathematical entity may point way for string theory.
A map of one of the strangest and most complex entities in mathematics should be a powerful new tool for both mathematicians and physicists pursuing a unified theory of space, time and matter.
The strange 'thing' that has been mapped is a 'Lie group' called E8 — a set of maths that describes the symmetry of an (unimaginable to most) 57-dimensional object.
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