OT: The theory of everything?

[Slick]

link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311952,00.html)

Possibly a grand unification theory... maybe THE grand unification theory.

All from a surfer with "no fixed address" Gotta love that!

[Santiago]

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[Slick]

fixed link.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Paint me skeptical.

[GuyOfDoom]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Paint me skeptical.



Indeed. For one I think I'll wait to hear from a source with a little more credability.

[Slick]

GuyOfDoom said:

Indeed. For one I think I'll wait to hear from a source with a little more credability.




Oh, the irony! That would be credibility. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[geoschmo]

And so to the list of great scientific quotations down through the ages...

"Eureka!"

and

"Watson! Come here, I need you."

We can add...

"Holy crap, that's it!"

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[capnq]

Would you consider the London Daily Telegraph a more credible source?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/14/scisurf114.xml

[Slick]

http://arxiv.org/pdf/0711.0770

For those mathematically inclined readers. For what it's worth, Lisi considers this "baby math".

[Captain Kwok]

I'd also note that Einstein was a patent clerk when he was coming up with some of his most significant theories/ideas. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Hey, I never said it wasn't possible - I just don't think it's probable.

[Renegade 13]

Slick said:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0711.0770

For those mathematically inclined readers. For what it's worth, Lisi considers this "baby math".

Heh, 'baby math'...I understood about the first page, and nothing further. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Randallw]

Captain Kwok said:
I'd also note that Einstein was a patent clerk when he was coming up with some of his most significant theories/ideas. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif



Being a clerk isn't a mark on Einsteins intelligence. The way I read it he went into work in the morning there were 2 or 3 patent requests he dealt with and he had nothing to do the rest of the day except work on his ideas.

[Fyron]

There appear to be some flaws (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071117-upon-further-review-surfers-new-theory-of-everything-severely-deficient.html) with the approach..

[BlueTemplar]

It would be a shame... it looks beautiful.

[MasterChiToes]

There are a lot of symmetries in physics... so injecting physics into complex symmetries (like the E8) is likely to come up with some apparent correlations.