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Surfer dude Garret Lisi’s paper, “An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything” is currently “making waves” in physics circles.

“Some incredibly beautiful stuff falls out of Lisi’s theory,” adds David Ritz Finkelstein at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. “This must be more than coincidence and he really is touching on something profound.”

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The reason for the excitement is that Lisi’s model also takes account of gravity, a force that has only successfully been included by a rival and highly fashionable idea called string theory, one that proposes particles are made up of minute strings, which is highly complex and elegant but has lacked predictions by which to do experiments to see if it works.

The “theory of everything” is long regarded as the “Holy Grail” of physics, with even the best minds so far have not been able to come up with anything solid. Apparently, Lisi’s paper smells like teen spirit.
Download Lisi’s paper, “An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything,” if you’re that type of person.

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