Another excellent and thought-provoking post from Tom Murphy. Here's how he begins: "Science is a phenomenal institution. Sometimes I can’t believe we created this construct that works so incredibly well. It manages to convert human imperfections into a remarkably robust machine that has aided our growth juggernaut. Yet science seeks truth, and sometimes the truth is not what we want to hear. How will we respond? Will we kill the messenger and penalize the scientific institution for what is bound to be an increasing barrage of bad news this century as Earth fills beyond capacity?"
Read the full article here. Please.
The E6 Root Polytope
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I’ve been thinking about the exceptional Lie algebra E6, as a spinoff of my
project on E7, so I want to get a good mental picture of the E6 root
polytope. ...
6 days ago
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