MERLIN SCIENCE — E8-Conformal Harmonic Memory Encoding: Self-Stabilizing Photonic Latti — E8 Intelligence Research
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Look, here's the finding in one clean sentence: you can build a photonic lattice where information storage is not a matter of flipping bits or correcting errors, but a consequence of the lattice's own geometric symmetry — specifically, the 240 root vectors of the E8 Lie group, embedded as phase-locked cavity modes in a conformal waveguide. Now, the field context. We've spent years chasing quantum bio-photonic memory — using light to store information in biological or bio-inspired structures. The usual approach is to treat each photon as a qubit, then fight decoherence with error correction. That works, but it's expensive, fragile, and fundamentally computational. What we're proposing is different: instead of manipulating discrete states, you let the geometry do the work. E8 is the largest exceptional Lie group, with a root system of 240 vectors in eight dimensions, and it has this beautiful property — its symmetries are conformally invariant, meaning they preserve angles under scaling Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
Author: Caldin, Andrew Stewart
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204189680
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