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

Comments

[snarkyshark2]

Jeeeez, spell out this simple "theory of everything" already! *congrats*

[mauitian]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory_of_Everything

[snarkyshark2]

I think you have great potential to make it on the Daily Show.

[velellavelella]

That would be great! I really wish that would happen, but I think he may need even more media attention in order for that to occur. And I'm not sure what Garrett would do. And well, I think that the current level is what we can handle.

[shephi]

read through the paper... looks like I need to take some more classes (Algebra, GR, Quantum Field Theory) to understand enough to critique. before that point, I'm curious if your work implies anything about dark matter?

[mr_squeaky]

*patiently waits for you to feature on xkcd* ;)

E8 and Cl8

[anonymous]

Your paper motivated me to write up some stuff about E8 and its relation to Cl(8) etc,
and it is now on my dotMac site at

http://web.mac.com/t0ny5m17h/Site/E8Cl8phys.pdf

I will put it up on my regular web site over the next few days.

One thing that seems interesting to me is that
if you look at the 8-dim root vector space of E8 as Octonionic,
then there are 7 independent E8 lattices ("integral" octonion lattices)
each of which has a distinct 240-vertex polytope of nearest neighbors to the origin
so
it seems that there are in some sense 7 distinct E8s
and that they are related to each other sort of like the 7 octonion imaginaries.

Tony Smith

An Exceptionally Simple Response to Everything

[agnosticessence]

Really, I'm not qualified to comment on your paper, but since I always wanted to discover the secrets to the universe, I'll just comment in your journal:

PENIS!