The number of elementary particles in the standard model from purely number theoretical considerations

In various recent formal and informal lectures and discussions Prof. M.S. El Naschie expressed the sentiment that the 496 of E8E8 being a perfect number is not a coincidence and there is deep number theoretical connections to physics in this case. In this short work, we first introduce the perfect numbers. We show the close connection between the fourth perfect number and the sum of the first four perfect numbers to the number of particles in the standard model. As conjectured by El Naschie, it seems very unlikely that 496 being one of only four perfect numbers in the first 33 million numbers is a coincidence.