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Garrett Lisi: This surfer is no Einstein... [Ouch!]
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 22 Jan 2008 | Marcus du Sautoy

Posted on 01/22/2008 1:58:48 AM PST by snarks_when_bored

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Here's how Garrett Lisi's work was heralded in November of last year:

Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

Now, two months later, it appears that his theory doesn't work. Props to him for giving it a go, though.

Surf's up somewhere, dude!

1 posted on 01/22/2008 1:58:50 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: RadioAstronomer; longshadow; grey_whiskers; PatrickHenry; headsonpikes; Iris7; Junior; ...

A swing and a miss...


2 posted on 01/22/2008 1:59:29 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

Hey “snarks_when_bored” Genius, what are the chances that the Large Hadron Collider will find the Higgs Boson and do you think the LHC will lead to a new mass-based energy source?


3 posted on 01/22/2008 2:09:22 AM PST by kipita (“Love” is to humanity as gravitons are to an infinite # of universes.)
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To: kipita; blam

“Hey “snarks_when_bored” Genius, what are the chances that the Large Hadron Collider will find the Higgs Boson and do you think the LHC will lead to a new mass-based energy source?”

I dunno dude - but it sounds heavy!


4 posted on 01/22/2008 2:20:07 AM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem (We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem

WAY too early to try to think that deep.


5 posted on 01/22/2008 2:32:30 AM PST by P8triot1 (Liberalism ALWAYS produces the exact opposite of its stated intent. Quinns 1st. law..)
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To: kipita
As I recall (without doing any googling), the LHC is intended to have the beam brightness to find the Higgs boson if its mass is in the range predicted by current theory. As for the LHC leading to a new mass-based energy source, unh-unh.

Further ex cathedra comments available upon request...

6 posted on 01/22/2008 2:38:47 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored
As I recall (without doing any googling), the LHC is intended to have the beam brightness to find the Higgs boson if its mass is in the range predicted by current theory. As for the LHC leading to a new mass-based energy source, unh-unh.

Further ex cathedra comments available upon request...

Interesting! I've spent 16 years existing as an analytical chemist and your expertise is probably physics so you're more into it (you know what I mean) then I am and I do have a professional respect for your previous posts. Respecting your time, I'll wait a bit for additional questions.

7 posted on 01/22/2008 4:08:01 AM PST by kipita (“Love” is to humanity as gravitons are to an infinite # of universes.)
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To: snarks_when_bored

Hey surfer dude — I know some ski bums and snowboard addicts who seem to have their own versions of a “theory of everything” — maybe you should all get together, smoke a few bowls, and see where your joint “brainstorming” sessions might lead....


8 posted on 01/22/2008 4:48:54 AM PST by Enchante (Patriots, 18-0 baby!!!!!!!!!)
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To: snarks_when_bored

Oh, PHYSICS.

I thought it was about physiques.

Never mind.


9 posted on 01/22/2008 4:56:46 AM PST by Humble Servant (Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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To: snarks_when_bored

Oh please! I’m not buying this crap. The objection of those physicists seems to be based only on scientific evidence. Where’s the consensus? I want to hear what the biologists and geologists and astronomers have to say. Until then, these objections are irrelevant.


10 posted on 01/22/2008 5:17:34 AM PST by saganite (Lust type what you what in the “tagline” space)
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Until then, these objections are irrelevant.

Well as you already know, their objections won't mean squat until the Oprah weighs in.......

11 posted on 01/22/2008 5:24:40 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly. - B. Franklin)
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Well as you already know, their objections won't mean squat until the Oprah weighs in.......

A Republic if you can keep it.........

12 posted on 01/22/2008 5:45:49 AM PST by kipita (“Love” is to humanity as gravitons are to an infinite # of universes.)
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To: saganite

(heh heh)


13 posted on 01/22/2008 6:04:45 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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Garrett Lisi site:freerepublic.com Search Text
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14 posted on 01/22/2008 7:29:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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No sign of the Higgs boson
New Scientist | December 5, 2001 (note the year) | Eugenie Samuel
Posted on 04/10/2007 11:48:56 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1814966/posts

Desperately seeking the Higgs boson
Manila Times | Sunday, January 14, 2007 | Rony V. Diaz
Posted on 01/15/2007 4:57:53 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1767741/posts

The Geometer of Particle Physics
Scientific American | August 2006 issue | By Alexander Hellemans
Posted on 09/27/2006 2:46:35 PM EDT by jasoncann
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1709437/posts

Greatest Mysteries: Is There a Theory of Everything?
LiveScience | August 21, 2007 | Dave Mosher
Posted on 08/22/2007 2:00:12 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1884671/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=stringtheory


15 posted on 01/22/2008 7:33:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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Thanks snarks_when_bored.

16 posted on 01/22/2008 7:34:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
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To: snarks_when_bored

I wish to be smarter.


17 posted on 01/22/2008 7:41:24 AM PST by devane617 (Fred Thompson in '08.)
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To: snarks_when_bored

Tie them all up with strings!


18 posted on 01/22/2008 9:40:50 AM PST by onedoug
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To: snarks_when_bored
Lubos debunked it already in November http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/11/exceptionally-simple-theory-of.html

But, Lisi probably got a bunch of artists interested in the beauty of group theory



More here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E8_(mathematics)
19 posted on 01/22/2008 9:54:57 AM PST by AdmSmith
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To: SunkenCiv
Keeping my TOE in the holster, I'll just have popcorn and wait this one out ...

I'm still waiting for Binks to get a temporal clue from a spatial combinatoric.

20 posted on 01/22/2008 12:35:21 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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