On the sporadic 196884-dimensional group, strings and E(∞) spacetime

Some arguments are presented using the dimension of the Golay code and the center density of intersecting spheres in 24-dimensional lattices to show that the 196884 dimensions of the so-called 'monster group' can be regarded as hierarchical and reduced by clustering to a quasi expectation value of four, in analogy to the e((infinity)) spacetime dimensional reduction. The analysis suggests that the conjectured DNA-like Cantorian spacetime may resemble a giant 'error correction' code. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.