A beautiful new theory of everything

14 responses to “A beautiful new theory of everything”

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   jurvetson

   Oct 18, 2008 at 12:12 am

   more beauty…
   

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   alexthai01

   Oct 18, 2008 at 12:19 am

   Hi!

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   B. Wilson aka Timo Poppius

   Oct 18, 2008 at 12:25 am

   Thanks !!

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   Todd Huffman

   Oct 18, 2008 at 1:06 am

   I love those visuals…

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   Apollo 11

   Oct 18, 2008 at 2:18 am

   I had read about his work many months ago, the presentation was great. Thanks very much for finding and sharing it.

   I miss grad school. Spending every day uncovering the universe’s secrets is very fulfilling. I couldn’t spend my entire life in the priesthood of Physics, but I still love the occasional sermon. 🙂

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6. 

   msamaclean ©

   Oct 18, 2008 at 3:51 am

   I knew there was a reason I loved my Spirograph…the original metal one with hand cranks, not the plastic wheel version that came later!
   Geuss I’ll log off & go to TED!

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   Erik Charlton

   Oct 18, 2008 at 4:22 am

   Steve;

   Saw Lenny Susskind at SLAC last week…. In summery he said, We have been trying to characterize the universe in the wrong way. It is like we’ve been trying to describe man mathematically as a five fold design (left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg and head). This is totally the wrong approach. We should be looking to understand his DNA and how it enables the creation of the wide variety of life we see. Like the DNA of the Universe, String Theory establishes the possibility that there are different laws of physics in different part of the universe. What we believe to be constants are in fact changing with the expansion of the universe. Man lives in a fleeting place and time that is a result of accidents. Whoa!

   A great example of his thinking is on YouTube here  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzfhtouRM6s&feature=related

   Thought you would enjoy!

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   pegleg000

   Oct 18, 2008 at 7:12 am

   Fascinating! Unlike the host (emcee, moderator?), I’m sure I understood at least 3% of it. 😉 Thanks for that link.

   I also liked Bjorn Lomborg’s talk. A breath of fresh air, and a clear mind, in an otherwise hazy world.
   blog.ted.com/2008/10/bjorn_lomborgs.php

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   PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

   Oct 18, 2008 at 12:10 pm

   Since we are talking about Garrett Lisi article and cool visual. For the pleasure of the eyes. Here is a E8 polytope . Just love the complexity =)

   

   I got to meet few physicists, this last few months, and most of the time,when we came to talk about Garrett Lisi’s article, the answer was…. "Two things…. One the man is a genius, and his work is amazing and it’s brilliant. Or he is just totally wrong !" (except one time, where the answer was…direct ! But that was at a public conference, so no time to go deep in the argument.. =)

   @Erik : Thanks for the link. About extra-dimensions, we had a cool conference with some of the LHC key-scientists, in Paris last week.
   
   From what they say, extra-dimensions Could, be detected with the LHC. That would be big news !

   Ho and here is a deep thought, a friend had the other day.
   "As Homer simpsons would probably understand it…So everytime I start eating a donut….A new Universe is creating..with a new donut and version of myself starting to eat it…at infinituM…. wouhouuuu !!! "

   

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    schoschie

    Oct 18, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    Ahhh, good stuff, thx for all the links!
    That polytope makes a perfect mandala. Algorithmic art FTW!

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    schoschie

    Oct 18, 2008 at 4:15 pm

    Wow, I’m intrigued, just saw the TED talk, amazing. I think I grasp his points. He is sketching out all the properties of the known particles and places the particles on a figure with as many dimensions (up to 6), everything being in symmetry (= balance). He then adds some more properties (which should be there but have not been described?) and compiles everything into this 8-dimensional E-8 figure which is special because of its mathematical purity and completeness. By rotating the figure’s projection onto 2-D, one can visualize meaningful groups of particles and interaction.

    I believe I’ve already understood more of this new theory than of string theory. If this would matter at all, then, according to Occam’s razor, Lisi’s theory would more likely be correct 🙂

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    angry shock

    Oct 21, 2008 at 10:05 am

    Gotta see this. In search for a new good theory of everything me too.

    We got us a black and white cowhide (an Holando cow) for a carpet and two cushions in our new living room and I am fascinated with the design of the black spots in the white, and the several cowlicks here and there… makes me wonder a lot on the universe while I stare at it. 🙂

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    Tolka Rover

    Jun 6, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Google Pagerank 3, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

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    jurvetson

    Jul 4, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    In one of the most pre-announced discoveries ever…. big Higgs news today…

    Via Garrett Lisi on Facebook: “…perhaps the most momentous day in particle physics of the century. The Higgs boson [aka "God particle"] is the Holy Grail for particle physicists because it is the missing link that provides a description of how all particles get their masses and how they interact with the gravitational field. Now that we know the existence of the Higgs boson, this is just as significant as finding out that, in fact, atoms do have these hard little nuclei. We don’t know what the implications will be decades down the line from this discovery, but they will surely be huge."

    from Lisi’s video

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