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ninguem1 on July 28, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Has a surfer Ph.D. rewritten physics? Maybe.

E8 is an exceptional Lie group (ie a group that is also a manifold, hence in particular infinite). You seem to be mixing it up with the exceptional finite simple groups. Wikipedia explains.

donw on July 28, 2008 [–]

Spoken like a man with a drastically better grasp of group theory than my own. :)

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