[Duke]

I came in here to see if there was discussion about this topic, and kinda hoped that Borodog would have weighed in by now.

I'm a huge fan of symmetry arguments for pretty much everything, so I'm obviously pretty interested in this work. It'll take me another couple weeks to really understand this theory enough to draw my own conclusions, as I'd never heard of E8 or about half of the previous cited work that they're talking about.

I believe that I recall the dude at arstechnica having huge problems with the paper doing things like assigning velocities to energies, and other nonsense. When it comes to this sort of thing though, some sorts of nonsense get me even more excited about the theories, and I'm not yet decided if this is good nonsense or bad.

Going through the paper, though, it looks like Boro might be a bit unhappy about the units.

Anyhow, I'll be checking back in periodically on this topic specifically.