The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature:
"Furey had figured out how to build on a finding of Günaydin’s from 40 years earlier—a
largely forgotten result that supported a powerful suspicion about fundamental physics
and its relationship to pure math.
The suspicion, harbored by many physicists and mathematicians over the decades but
rarely actively pursued, is that the peculiar panoply of forces and particles that comprise
reality spring logically from the properties of eight-dimensional numbers called
“octonions.”
See:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-pecu...aws-of-nature/