The E8 Alignment Anomaly

The core problem I tackle is this: standard statistical tests are vulnerable to the “Texas sharpshooter” illusion. If you search a large space and only show the best hits, ordinary p‑values can make random patterns look meaningful. I use a best‑of‑search Monte Carlo null model to fix this, so the tests correctly account for how hard we looked before declaring a result “significant.”
The study runs a kind of tournament. I test 270 different projections of the E8 structure and compare them against a catalog of 160 site patterns. Out of all of these, only four projections survive strict…