Chugging Along

I must be getting absent minded in my solitary old age. It is a public holiday here today ... but I didn't notice until after I had suffered the weekend bus (that replaces the train), walked through the deserted city, and then passed through a number of locked doors on a deserted campus. Well, I have the place to myself now. Why do the academics all disappear on a holiday? Do they have a life, or something? The main reason for coming into VUW is the wonderful drawing packages on their desktops. Rather than painstakingly typing all diagrams in latex, I can now easily create nice eps files of braid diagrams!

Thanks again to Graham D for continuing his musings at Galaxy Zoo. Only the neutrinos show up with that $\pm \pi /12$ Koide phase. That must be because the neutrinos insist on annihilating with the dark matter sector, whereas electrons prefer to annihilate with ordinary antimatter. The $24$th root of unity is a very nice complex number, denoting for instance the dimension spanned by all three generations of $8$ fundamental leptons: four neutrinos and four charged leptons.