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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[resipisco]

I can't tell if the Telegraph article is stunned at how young you are or how old you are.

[mauitian]

I think it was my good looks.

[resipisco]

In retrospect, I realize I should've said "First Post, Bitches!!111eleventybillion" in this soon to be legendary thread.

Nice work.

[mauitian]

I would have just changed your post to "Boobies."

[jhogan]

I haven't been reading your LJ for a while but just stumbled across your paper on Reddit, where it's ranked 40th or something. When I saw "Garrett" and "Incline Village, NV" at the top of the paper I was like "hey, wait a minute..."

Cool stuff, man!

[mauitian]

Hey, thanks, I didn't know I'd made Reddit.

[mauitian]

They haven't noticed yet that I'm commenting on the thread. Heh.

[browascension]

See, you're not a slacker after all. You just know how to enjoy yourself while you're thinking.

[mauitian]

Don't write off the slacker theory.

[reichart]

I have to agree with Gar himself, I'm thinking we keep printing the "slacker" shirts...he needs something to wear.

Hey Gar, I was pretty shocked by that one blog site http://globalpioneering.com/wp02/an-exceptionally-simple-theory-of-everything/

Shows that trolls and (CENSORED)happen at all levels.

you might like my response there...

[mauitian]

Nice. But speaking of (CENSORED), a little bird told me you commented on L.M.'s blog. Don't bother, he deletes all critical comments.

I just saw the telegraph one:

[reverend_kate]

Congratulations.

Now where's my list of required reading, Professor Surfer Dude?

Re: I just saw the telegraph one:

[mauitian]

Thanks. I think Penrose's "The Road to Reality" is probably the closest thing to a matrix-style download of the pre-reqs. But after that, some differential geometry, Lie groups, and particle physics wouldn't hurt... well, might hurt a little, but worth it. :)

[scriptum]

Congratulations on a beautiful thing you discovered!

To put it simply: you found (by chance?) that your equations fit in some way the most of E8 pattern, and you are claiming that the parts are not covered correspond to yet undiscovered particles? What is special about E8 that makes it suitable for your ToE?

Thanks.

[mauitian]

Not a bad summary. E8 is the most beautiful Lie group there is, and the standard model and gravity appear to fit in it perfectly.

[cherylysiha]

And if you do some day, - if sitting at your work-bench, you see a vision of surpassing glory, some picture of that golden time when there shall be no prisons on the earth, nor hunger, nor houselessness, nor accusation, nor judgment, and hearts open as printed leaves, and candid as fearlessness, if then you look across at your low-browed neighbor, who sweats and smells and curses at his toil, - remember that as you do not know his depth neither do you know his height.

[tedstewart]

Things were simply not "behind the corner" as some people wished. And it was surely not the first time when Nature showed that some approximate theories have a much wider range of validity - and new phenomena are much further - than some people wanted: see, for example, David Gross's review of a conference.