Incomplete Geometry

In the process of investigating the genome piece there was a podcast of it which included a prior segment.

[Very Rough Thinking In Progress]

In a bit of preemptive* positing, I note the potential significance of 8 and 24 dimension.

Could it be that it is related to the fact that 2 cubed is eight and 8x3 is 24. 

I say that without quibbling** over the definition of dimensions, but to say they are using it too purely mathematical. 

But now that I have spelled it out, might it represent 3 dimensions in each of the 8 quadrants of standard x-y-z grid.  Or am I just putting into words what it actually means in their math?

* having listened to the podcast but not done the math
** @ t we already have a different definition or do we?  (x,y,z, & t)
then there are the dimentions[!] of Arthur Young, and by golly was that 8 or v/7?***
[!]= irony or (sic) that I found him with that spelling

Filing purposes:
Or round file of clean desktop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech_lattice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion


https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160421-the-evolutionary-argument-against-reality/

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160419-string-inflation-triangles/

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160330-sphere-packing-solved-in-higher-dimensions/


*** I was not aware of Young when I developed my own tetrahedron
(I credit a parsing of Einstein and a recreation of The Republic for my structure.)

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5-4-16 
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