New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.”
Source: The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics | Quanta Magazine
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Hmm. Maybe Terry Pratchett knew something the rest of us didn’t. Remember that the colour of magic was a mysterious “octarine.”