There is no ``Theory of everything'' inside \(\text E_{8}\) (Q1958532): Difference between revisions

It is well-known that in modern physics there exist two important theories which try to explain our Universe. On one side there is the general relativity theory by Einstein. On the other side is quantum theory. Both of them proved successful, but taken together they are out of joint. Indeed, each of them is incomplete by itself. For this reason, physicists began to seek over the past century a new theory, the Theory of Everything that could reveal a strange domain of interdimensional wormholes and time warps. In this paper, the authors, by using mostly mathematics with relatively little input from physics, deal with this subject and analyze certain subgroups of real and complex forms of the Lie group \(\text E_{8}\), deducing that any Theory of Everything obtained by embedding the gauge groups of gravity and the Standard Model into a real or complex form of \(\text E_{8}\) lacks certain representation-theoretic properties required by physical reality. The arguments themselves amount to the representation theory of Lie algebras in the spirit of Dynkin's classic papers and are written for mathematicians.