E8

TOE, The Theory of Everything, may resemble a humongous Spirograph diagram known as E8, a fantastically complex 57 dimensional mathematical construct that, when placed in the hands of physicist Garret Lisi, just might show how the universe really works. He did this by using E8 to graphically and mathmatically connect together the very aspects of reality (Quantum/Relativity theories and the four forces of GravityStrong/Weak & Electromagnetic) that have confounded scientists for over 100 years. Click here to get New Scientist's view of Lisi's theory.

What's cool about this is that according to Lisi, the theory is simple, elegant and may be experimentally verifiable when Cern's new Hadron Collider goes online in 2008/9. The other thing that's cool is Lisi himself, a guy who surfs and snowboards and is unattached to any university. The paper itself is just 31 pages long and is filled with graphs and charts that show how E8 and the numbers work together, something that Einstein intuitively understood when he changed how man looks at the cosmos. "What's it like to ride on a beam of light?"

Addendum: Check out Lisi's video here. Needless to say, it rocks.
Check out Lisi's site. That too is outragous.

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