An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

[mauitian]

I'm not sure yet whether all the attention is good, or if all the hype will have a negative impact, but this has certainly been a strange week. The interest in my work among physicists has been building steadily over the past few months. I've been presenting at conferences, getting invited to cool places, and exchanging emails with some of the best

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[sylwia]

I'm an artist, and I don't understand the complex terms and math in your theory at all, hahaha. I do however, understand the elegance, and I think it's extraordinary. I've never heard of E8 before, but looking at the picture in the Telegraph article brought tears to my eyes. It's truly beautiful, which I can understand in a way I can't explain with math or words.

:)

[kkatie]

http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/107 :)
Might help some.

[mauitian]

Or wait for the book. :)

http://xkcd.com/15/

[kkatie]

Oh wow. An xkcd aficionado too?
I found your blog last night off of your website. I'm a geology major but I have this inexplicable fascination with particle physics and unification theories, all of which I really don't understand beyond high school AP level, but am really interested in nonetheless. And so I was looking around to see if there was anything new going on with your theory---I read about it in November with everyone else and, well, you know, it's very very beautiful, and I haven't heard anything since. So then I found your blog and really went all fangirlish and now here I am blathering on to Garrett Lisi. I'm kind of in complete awe.

[mauitian]

Well, don't gush too much, or my friends will make fun of me mercilessly.

The theory is coming along well. The Wikipedia article is... kind of a food fight, but at least has a good collection of links to related material and recent developments. Basically, people who are interested have been filling in needed details -- extending the theory, addressing problems, and relating it to other work.

For me personally... it's been kind of overwhelming, but fun. In any case, cool that it caught your interest, and have fun looking around the journal.