I'll repost my comment from the last version of this article, since I don't think any new developments have invalidated it. This connection to QFT is almost surely nonsense. The flag manifold in question comes from matrix groups; basically, consider some subset of 3x3 matrices which satisfy a certain property. I.e., certain types of transformations of a 3d space. While the space of 3x3 matrices has 3x3=9 dimensions,…
This is bullshit. The dance is a solved problem. There are plenty of mysteries about honey bees, and this isn't one of them. A few summers ago I worked with a guy that could read the dance so well that we could physically locate the place the bee was dancing to. (We were studying quorum sensing behavior, which isn't a solved problem; how do bees collaborate to decide which new location to move to?)