Happy New Year!

When our Collective Imagination fails, we get reductionism in Science, fundamentalism in Religion, fascism in Politics.

Are we there yet?
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Please explain

Just when you think you have some basic understanding of how things work and what holds the world together, you come across this and Whoa! - there just might be an alternate universe.

"The action for an  //-dimensional supermembrane contains a chiral Wess-Zumino-Witten model coupling to the E8 super-Yang-Mills theory on the end-of-the-world 9-brane.
It is demonstrated that this boundary string theory is dictated both by gauge invariance and by  kappa symmetry"

from a paper by Martin Cederwall
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden
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