The Mereon System, the 600-Cell, and the Exceptional Algebras $E_6$, $E_7$, $E_8$: Exact Correspondence via $H_3 \subset H_4$ Symmetry and the Eigenform Loop

Abstract

This work concerns how the three-dimensional polyhedral Mereon structure (the 120 polyhedron) is the precise projection from four-space of the 600-cell, an analogue in four-dimensional space of a regular solid. The 600-cell is made from 120 copies of a dodecahedron that are fitted together so that each dodecahedral face is matched to the face of another dodecahedron (much as the pentagonal faces of the dodecahedron are matched along their edges). Thus this essential part of the Mereon structure is a projection from a higher-dimensional space of an even more symmetrical entity. The theme that three-dimensional structures, earthly structures, networked structures, structures involved in our understanding and communication, would be or should be seen as projections from a higher-dimensional whole is part of perennial philosophy. Here we are seeing an instantiation of this theme and the dreams with which it is allied. The 600-cell and its associated geometries have been studied for some time by mathematicians and by physicists for relations with geometry, topology, knot theory, particle physics and even cosmology and string theory. It is more than exciting that there is a direct connection of the Mereon System with the 600-cell and the wide-ranging conversation with which it is associated. We expect much more from this connection as the search goes on. The present paper makes this connection precise. We establish the exact correspondence between the Mereon System and the 600-cell, and show how the nested architecture realises all three exceptional Lie algebras $E_6$, $E_7$, $E_8$.