Mental Health Month, Day 26:
Many Dimensions,
Part II — The Blue Matrix
But seriously…
John Baez in July 1999:
"…it's really the fact that the Leech lattice is 24-dimensional that lets us compactify 26-dimensional spacetime in such a way as to get a bosonic string theory with the Monster group as symmetries."
Well, maybe. I certainly hope so. If the Leech lattice and the Monster group turn out to have some significance in theoretical physics, then my own work, which deals with symmetries of substructures of the Leech lattice and the Monster, might be viewed in a different light. Meanwhile, I take (cold) comfort from some writers who pursue the "story" theory of truth, as opposed to the "diamond" theory. See the following from my journal:
Evariste Galois and the Rock that Changed Things, and
A Time to Gather Stones Together: Readings for Yom Kippur.
See, too, this web page on Marion Zimmer Bradley's fictional
Matrices, or Blue Star-Stones, and
the purely mathematical site Diamond Theory, which deals with properties of the above "blue matrix" and its larger relatives.