Surfer dude comes up with plausible Unified Theory

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:57 pm

found this uber cool and fascinating..

"An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.j ... tviewedbox

.. i think this is a picture of the so called everything:

stjohn · Post by **stjohn** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:33 pm

thats very cool!!

fair play to the lad

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:38 pm

file this one under "1,000 monkeys typing for 1,000 years". I kept looking for the Onion logo on the page.

that pic can't be the object in question, you can't draw a 50+ dimensional object on a sheet of paper.

I'm just bummed they chose to label him as a surfer and not a snowboarder.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:42 pm

Tone Deft wrote:file this one under "1,000 monkeys typing for 1,000 years". I kept looking for the Onion logo on the page.

that pic can't be the object in question, you can't draw a 50+ dimensional object on a sheet of paper.

I'm just bummed they chose to label him as a surfer and not a snowboarder.

thats a 2d representation

,.. heres a slightly better one..

they said surfer because its the USA, if it was Canada they woulda said snowboarded, if it was a local Aussie guy we would have said he works for the council.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:47 pm

nevermind, it's not worth going into on a music forum.

"works for the council" that's funny, I do read that often. wtf?

R.J.Dubya · Post by **R.J.Dubya** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:50 pm

Tone Deft wrote:nevermind, it's not worth going into on a music forum.

That is something I never thought I would hear on this forum..

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:55 pm

Ooh, can't wait to soak this up while waiting for forum posts to go through

Here's the link to the page with the pdf download of the theory.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:00 pm

The title of this thread alone earns it my post of the year award

Vercengetorex · Post by **Vercengetorex** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:13 pm

Cant wait for the LHC to come on line...

Be it superstring, Lisi's, or Grand Unification when this puppy kicks on we are going to see some high energy subatomic fireworks.

7000 GeV (giga-electron volts) collision energy.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:28 pm

mcfuffin - Definition: in film, a plot device that has no specific meaning or purpose other than to advance the story; any situation that motivates the action of a film either artificially or substantively

such as in this article, where they talk on and on about how great his theory is, without ever really explaining what zen-surfer-man had to actually say

ethios4 · Post by **ethios4** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:33 pm

Garrett Lisi wrote:All fields of the standard model and gravity are, like, unified as an E8 principal bundle connection, bro . A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has like G2 and F4 subalgebrizzness which break down to, like, strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgzz, three generations of fermions related by triality, and such. Dude, the interactions and dynamics of these 1-form and Grassmann valued parts of an E8 superconnection are, like, so described by the curvature and action over a four dimensional base manifold. Whoa.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:35 pm

actually, he would have said brah, not bro

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:43 pm

Vercengetorex wrote:Cant wait for the LHC to come on line...

Be it superstring, Lisi's, or Grand Unification when this puppy kicks on we are going to see some high energy subatomic fireworks.

7000 GeV (giga-electron volts) collision energy.

theres something inheirantly creepy and scary about the LHC.

im all for science but something about it scares me..

Vercengetorex · Post by **Vercengetorex** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:47 pm

sweetjesus wrote:theres something inheirantly creepy and scary about the LHC.

im all for science but something about it scares me..

Yeah, its gonna be just like Half-Life.

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:55 pm

nebulae wrote:mcfuffin - Definition: in film, a plot device that has no specific meaning or purpose other than to advance the story; any situation that motivates the action of a film either artificially or substantively

Neb Neb Neb. Thats McGuffin

Sheesh!