2154 years after being written, and 464 years after being rendered obsolete by Copernicus, the Ptolemaic System is coming back with a vengeance, masquerading as Garrett Lisi’s Theory of Everything
2007/Nov/18
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Sweet blog!
Thanks for the comments!
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Comment by Eric Palmieri — 2007/Nov/18 @ 19:25:42
Interesting connection. Thanks.
Comment by Pioneer1 — 2007/Nov/20 @ 03:08:58
The Ptolemaic diagram is about the planetary orbits. They may look similar but that is where the similarity ends. While Garrett is saying that the universe is based on the E8 lattice, and the figure is just its representation in 2D.
Comment by anand — 2007/Nov/21 @ 12:10:16
Anand
be what it may, we’re back to circles
ps please check all the tags I have used for this blog
Comment by omnologos — 2007/Nov/21 @ 12:13:47
[...] forces of nature via the E8 Fractal — which at least some blogs are referring to as “Ptolemy’s Revenge” — would seem to suggest that a dialectical synthesis of old and new together, the [...]
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