10:00 15 November 2007/ NewScientist.com news service/ Zeeya Merali
GARRETT LISI is an unlikely individual to be staking a claim for a
theory of everything. He has no university affiliation and spends most
of the year surfing in Hawaii. In winter, he heads to the mountains
near Lake Tahoe, California, to teach snowboarding. Until recently,
physics was not much more than a hobby.
That
hasn't stopped some leading physicists sitting up and taking notice
after Lisi made his theory public on the physics pre-print archive this
week (www.arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770).
By analysing the most elegant and intricate pattern known to
mathematics, Lisi has uncovered a relationship underlying all the
universe's particles and forces, including gravity - or so he hopes.
Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) in
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, describes Lisi's work as "fabulous". "It is
one of the most compelling unification models I've seen in many, many
years," he says.
...
"I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape
twisting around and dancing over space-time," says Lisi. "Since E8 is
perhaps the most beautiful structure in mathematics, it is very
satisfying that nature appears to have chosen this geometry."
...
Full article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12891
Video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-xHw9zcCvRQ
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From: Jack Sarfatti
Date: November 16, 2007 3:44:51 PM
PST
Subject: Fwd: Lisi E8 theory
animation on New Scientist
Lisi getting major media
coverage despite Lubos Motl calling him a "crackpot". I have my doubts about the
claims of E8 with regard to gravity, but I do not know having not yet studied
the paper - only Lubos Motl's remarks on it. It's clear E8 is real physics, i.e.
testable out on the limb even if it turns out to be partially wrong. String
theory is not real physics. I mean most of the "string theory" papers on the
archive at best are good math papers having no connection to real phenomena.
Lee Smolin has some very interesting things to say about Alain Connes's
non-commuting geometry. Note this gives quantized area trivially. Smolin says
the standard model with Higgs-Goldstone macro-quantum vacuum ODLRO fields pops
out of Connes's theory - important, indeed startling, claim.
Note on "spin networks" - I have them in my theory quite literally. The
"nodes" of the 3D spin networks are my GMD field quantized "monopoles" (second
homotopy group ~ integers) and the "edges" are simply GMD field quantized vortex
filaments (first homotopy group ~ integers) for 2 world hologram Goldstone
phases with 3 real Higgs scalars contracted down from 8 Goldstone phases with 9
real Higgs scalars giving the M-Matrix where c-number ODLRO curved tetrads ~
diagonal part of 4x4 M-Matrix, spin connections ~ anti-symmetrized off-diagonal
part of M-Matrix.
One real Higgs scalar for each boson "dimension of space" in order to have
stable topological defects in the post-inflation single-valued vacuum condensate
ODLRO Higgs-Goldstone order parameters.
