Octonions and the Standard Model (Part 12)
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Octonions and the Standard Model (Part 12)
Posted by John Baez
Having spent a lot of time pondering the octonionic projective plane and its possible role in the Standard Model of particle physics, I’m now getting interested in the ‘bioctonionic plane’, which is based on the bioctonions rather than the octonions .
The bioctonionic plane also has intriguing mathematically connections to the Standard Model. But it’s not a projective plane in the axiomatic sense — and it can’t be constructed by...