RobW's Blog

When the TOE is found, science writers will find a way to describe it in simplistic terms. Working on the premise that the simplistic explanation will be in terms of a mathematical pattern, I have been seeking a mathematical pattern that has the look and feel of the standard model. The simplest such pattern that I can find is embedded in the structure of 4x4 complex matrices.

Extracting the pattern does involve some maths - Clifford algebras and the algebras of special unitary and ...