Surfer Dude Stuns Physicists with Theory of Everything

[arthwollipot]

Not sure if this has been posted before, but...

Surfer Dude Stuns Physicists with Theory of Everything (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/14/scisurf114.xml&page=1)

I can't see anything in here which sets off alarm bells, although I'm not adept with higher mathematics (or indeed any mathematics other than intermediate arithmetic). Anyone's ***** meter going off with this?

[H'ethetheth]

Alas! 't has! (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=98905)

[arthwollipot]

Darn!

[arthwollipot]

I apologise for posting a word that was considered offensive. Although I attempted to mask it in a fairly standard way, in retrospect it would have been wiser to use another word instead. I have been duly chastised, and I will endeavour to ensure that it doesn't happen again. To the best of my ability.

[CFLarsen]

"E8", eh?

What do you call the predecessors?

"E-yore"...

[thesyntaxera]

Why does this sound like a headline from the Onion?

In any case, it will be interesting to see this play out...everything seems kosher so far.

[latent aaaack]

According to the article, this theory can be tested relatively rapidly and conclusively - so what's the time scale this means in a theoretical physics context? The Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to go into operation in May, but will there be a years-long wait for an answer about this theory?

[Wangler]

Life isn't fair:

Quote from the linked article:
"Being poor sucks," Lisi says. "It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month."

So this guys a professional at living hand to mouth, and he has a girlfriend?

So why doesn't this guy's relationship spontaneously decay? Because he's a surfer?

Keith

[Wangler]

Ahh,

ArXiv had a pdf of his paper "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything"........should be a good read.........

[Wangler]

http://http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0711/0711.0770v1.pdf

Here's da link!

[HghrSymmetry]

Arth, thanks for posting anyway. I wasn't aware of the other thread.

Continued work and peer review should be interesting.

I made the mistake of posting in another thread that I thought was going to be an interesting discussion of TOE, but turns out it was really just a pseudo scientific woo-troll setting up a straw-man in hopes of picking a fight.

They attempted to bait me, but my Spider sense went off and I realized it was all bovine excrement, so I left them to wallow in their swill.

I suppose I should have known better because it was, after all, under the 'philosophy' section.

:)

[Soapy Sam]

I could not get the link above to work, but this does.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770

Not that it helps me. I might as well read the contents of a homoeopathic rice pudding tin in Russian.

Anyone here who can explain what it all means / might mean?

I can see that if there actually are 248 "fundamental" particles and they turned out to plot in a perfect circle in 2-d we might think Carl Sagan started the universe by time machine and wote "Contact" as a clue, but apart from that?

ETA- This reminded me of something.
Schneibster's last post here was dated 17 January. I just checked the member's list and cannot even see the username listed. Did he quit?