This free Mathematica Computable Document Format (.CDF) demonstration takes you on an integrated visual journey from the abstract elements of geometry, algebra, particle and nuclear physics, and on to the atomic elements of chemistry. http://theoryofeverything.org/TOE/JGM/ToE_Demonstration.cdf (0.5Mb)
It requires the free Mathematica CDF plugin.
As shown in a previous post here and here, I introduced a prediction of a new 148 GeV particle that seemed to be evidenced by FermiLab’s CDF experiment. Unfortunately, the D0 experiment failed to confirm it. Initially I hesitated to make a public retrodiction (or post-diction) about the latest LHC findings of the Higgs at 124 Gev (until better confirmation).
I would like to make public some earlier work that produced eq. 18 148 GeV Higgs mass prediction. The issue is around the inclusion of the factor of 2 before the Planck constant. Initially, I anticipated that no factor would be needed, but that put the particle mass at ~98 GeV, below the exclusion range from LEP. I had entertained the idea of using an Sqrt(2) term putting it at ~124 GeV, but due to aesthetic considerations I opted for using a factor of 2. Please see the modified calculation highlighted below.
Interestingly, it seems the LHC has found that my earlier (albeit superceded) choice may have been the right one! But, time will tell…
I’ve just posted a new paper on using the simple roots of E8 to reduce the particle count of the Lisi model from 240 to 8. See DynkinParticleReductions.pdf
Very exciting, I have been waiting for these results for over 10 years. Please see equation 18 in my paper http://theoryofeverything.org/TOE/JGM/ToE.pdf which predicts a Higgs (or per Lisi, a Higgs sector boson) at 148 GeV.
An emulation (w/particle labels) of an E8 embedding from Lisi’s Dec. 2010 Scientific American article. There are 2 rings of 12 groups of 8 fermions (with 2 overlapping in the center) and 4 rings of 12 bosons.