Garrett Lisi: A theory of everything

http://www.ted.com Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing else, it's the most beautiful 8-dimensional model of elementary particles and forces you've ever seen.


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[TheJurgen57]

i bet this guy can see the matrix

[jon ny]

whats your point?

[zoebiflap1]

"Another particle accelerator?

DAMMIT, now i have to make even more stuff"

-God

[Bradley Lynn]

sacred geometry. <3

[Naryan Robinson]

difficult speaker to listen to.

he's not very confident so every sentence takes exactly the same tonal structure.

[03geebee]

Its all rubbish! To understand the universe all you need to do is reverse the role of matter and space. Now, gravity is no longer a force and becomes an effect and dark matter suddenly becomes visable and accountable. Secondly, get rid of the concept of pull or attraction. Nature can only push - only living organisms can pull. Now, all those complex problems are solved and I don't have a physics degree either. 

[Daniel Bielinski]

thats just it, a theory

[Tesnora]

I don't really have any clue what you mean because it's not a field I study, but are you taking into account that this is from October 16 of 2008? 5 years ago.

[Kelly Goodine]

I like his reaction to string theory. From what I understand, string theory has largely been dismissed.

[Joseph Galloway]

Just because an argument is not "mainstream" does not warrant the argument as "misinformed". I am unure by "misnformed" you may be dismissing the argument. We would have to read the actual manuscript and duplicate the experiment to invalidate the theory.

[TheCeroak]

misinformed? I have to ask how do you know he is?