Bell-Christian S7 Brown SL(8,R) E8 Bohm

Frank Dodd Tony Smith

Published May 1, 2015• 0 citations

Abstract

Joy Christian has shown that Bell's Theorem should have been formulated in terms of the 7-sphere, and David Brown has shown that the resulting quantum structure indicates that physical reality uses the group SU(8). The non-compact version of SU(8) is SL(8,R) which is a fundamental part of the semi-direct product H92xSL(8,R) (where H92 is (8+28+56+1+56+28+8) = 185-dim and SL(8,R) is 63-dim) which is the Maximal Compactification of 248-dim E8 of E8 Physics described in viXra 1405.0030. Version 2 (v2) expands discussion, uses SL(8,R) in title, and states full viXra number.

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