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The YouTube lecturer is not referring to the Fano plane diagram cited
in the AI Overview below, but to a much more sophisticated figure,
the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis.

The Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis

Some context —

A rearrangement of the Miracle Octad Generator —

The Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis

The diagram below may be less powerful , but it illustrates a result that,
although less miraculous , is perhaps more historically significant —

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

For the Still Point: “Congregated Light”

Filed under: General — Tags: Clerisy, Congregated Light, Throwing Shapes — m759 @ 11:28 am

An instance of T. S. Eliot's poetic "still point" is the
center of a 3x3x3 Galois cube made up of 27 subcubes …
Not Rubik's puzzle, whose center is a mere mechanical contrivance.

Associated with that Galois cube is the set of
13 symmetry axes of its central subcube.

The figure above is not unrelated to the so-called "free will theorem."

Mathematician Peter J. Cameron's recent quotation of St. Bernard*
on free will and grace, while not impressive as a philosophical
statement, is at least preferable to the TV sitcom "Will and Grace."

See also the notion of free will in other posts tagged "Congregated Light."

Some context: Tom Wolfe, below, on the word "clerisy." It seems that the
word applies to many academics besides those in areas named by Wolfe.