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Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
Telegraph ^ | 11-14-07 | roger highfield

Posted on 11/14/2007 6:48:22 PM PST by em2vn

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It will be interesting to see where this goes.
1 posted on 11/14/2007 6:48:23 PM PST by em2vn
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I’ve got a couple of bucks and even I can’t quite figure it out as of yet.

Maybe if I win the lottery,.........

When I do, I’ll get back to you and you can rest easy then.

Until then,..... talk amongst yourselves.

You’re welcome.

2 posted on 11/14/2007 6:53:03 PM PST by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
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"An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything"

Somehow 42 comes to mind...I need the whole article. This is cool find, thanks.


3 posted on 11/14/2007 6:53:05 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: em2vn
Probably over here.
4 posted on 11/14/2007 6:53:14 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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Somehow 42 comes to mind...I need to read the whole article. This is cool find, thanks.


5 posted on 11/14/2007 6:54:08 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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Thanks.


6 posted on 11/14/2007 6:55:09 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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“Somehow 42 comes to mind...”

That’s because you know where your towel is.


7 posted on 11/14/2007 6:55:30 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

The jerk is just trying to one-up OLTG's Theory of Almost Everything

8 posted on 11/14/2007 6:56:21 PM PST by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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"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."

get a job, moron. the universe can go on without you.

9 posted on 11/14/2007 6:57:30 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (keep the heat on the hillary.)
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Not only has this guy possibly figured out the universe, but he has invented a new language, because I didn’t understand a damn thing any of those people were talking about in that article.


10 posted on 11/14/2007 6:58:43 PM PST by GnL
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That E8 pattern is totally tubular. Dude’s radical, yet simple TOE could spark a gnarly paradigm shift.


11 posted on 11/14/2007 6:58:48 PM PST by Mr. Mojo (“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.")
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This is my grand daughters “about” page:

http://www.freerepublic.com/~hollyp/


12 posted on 11/14/2007 6:59:39 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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Image hosted by Photobucket.com if ya don't like being poor... there's a simple solution.

WORK!!!

13 posted on 11/14/2007 7:01:03 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist)
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This is BS. You don’t find the answer to the universe in some obscure mathematical pastime.


14 posted on 11/14/2007 7:01:31 PM PST by damondonion
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Like, E=mc2, dude! Alright? Gnarly! Oh yeah and like, that superstring junk? Like, totally righteous man!
15 posted on 11/14/2007 7:04:06 PM PST by Reaganesque (Charter Member of the Romney FR Resistance)
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This is BS. You don’t find the answer to the universe in some obscure mathematical pastime.

The answer is 42


16 posted on 11/14/2007 7:04:07 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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“My brain exploded with the implications and the beauty of the thing,” he tells New Scientist. “I thought: ‘Holy crap, that’s it!’”

Dick Feynman would have had a beer with this guy.
“Surf?....no I play bongos”


17 posted on 11/14/2007 7:07:57 PM PST by pgobrien (82d Abn Inf pings......)
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It will be interesting to see where this goes.

It goes way over my head, unfortunately. I can't picture 8 dimensions in my mind, vectors, 57?

I read through it anyway. The first thing I thought of when I saw the colorful diagram was a fractal. Now I have generated a lot of fractals, have a couple 100 or more in my files somewhere, and while they may contain what appears to be some symmetrical object, the entire fractal images I've generated seem to be assymetrical, infinite spirals are one characteristic but not the only one.

E. Michael Jones suggested in an article several years ago that God could have created the universe in fractals. So if Lisi is correct, that shoots that theory. The former does not presume to have advanced scientific knowledge.

I wish I could understand this, the same thing happened when I tackled Hawkins' "History of Time", just too advanced for me, even though it wasn't a very long book.

18 posted on 11/14/2007 7:14:12 PM PST by Aliska
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My own theory is that there was no big bang, but rather the universe is simply an oscillating sphere. If you’re *really* fast then once every couple of trillion years you can wave quickly at everyone as they pass by, moving in the opposite direction.


19 posted on 11/14/2007 7:15:22 PM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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This is BS. You don’t find the answer to the universe in some obscure mathematical pastime.

(Except for Einstein...)
20 posted on 11/14/2007 7:17:17 PM PST by newguy357
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