posted November 17, 2007 07:38 AM         

Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
Science – An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which as received rave reviews from scientists. Garrett Lisi, 39, has a doctorate but no university affiliation…

Is mathematical pattern the theory of everything?
An elegant, eight-dimensional pattern may at last reveal the link between gravity and the other fundamental forces in the universe

GARRETT LISI is an unlikely individual to be staking a claim for a theory of everything. He has no university affiliation and spends most of the year surfing in Hawaii. In winter, he heads to the mountains near Lake Tahoe, California, to teach snowboarding. Until recently, physics was not much more than a hobby.

That hasn't stopped some leading physicists sitting up and taking notice after Lisi made his theory public on the physics pre-print archive this week (www.arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770). By analysing the most elegant and intricate pattern known to mathematics, Lisi has uncovered a relationship underlying all the universe's particles and forces, including gravity - or so he hopes. Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, describes Lisi's work as "fabulous". "It is one of the most compelling unification models I've seen in many, many years," he says.

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posted November 17, 2007 08:04 AM         

I justs started reading a book on the string theory too.

posted November 17, 2007 10:16 AM         

Heres his audio presentation and pdf slides:

http://deferentialgeometry.org/talks/ILQGS07/ILQGS.wav
http://deferentialgeometry.org/talks/ILQGS07/Lisi.pdf

Interestingly ancient hindu rishis says the following is the image of our universe.
Here goes: