Man, I've shredded plenty of sweet pow in my day, and all I ever came up with was a Unified Theory of Rad (it got rejected by the Institute for Advanced Study). But physicist-surfer-snowboarder-Burning-Man-attendee Garrett Lisi has constructed a compelling "theory of everything" based on analyzing an elegant, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern known as E8. Even Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is smitten, describing Lisi's work as both "fabulous" and "one of the most compelling unification models I've seen in many, many years."
Hmmph. Lee Smolin never called me fabulous.
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