Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 14 Nov 2007 | Roger Highfield

[rightinthemiddle]

Spirograph...it was fun for about 10 minutes.

[Clioman]

So, does this mean that a spirograph can produce energy from cold fusion?

[Drawsing]

What’s yellow and dangerous?

Moby the banana.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Another great 70’s icon, like macrame and decoupage.

[Paladin2]

Most people either have the time to spend doing what they want but not the money, or are spending their time making money. Typically the only way to do what you want is to scrounge up a little dough and just hit the road for some fraction of the year. I see 4.5 months of homelessness in my near future as ski season starts.

[Captain Beyond]

bump for later read

[tcrlaf]

“the surfer dude actually holds a doctorate in theoretical physics”

And he has probably just assured himself of an associate proffessorship somewhere...

Attention Indiana University, HIRE THIS GUY!

[Paladin2]

"There is not a glimpse of physics in that paper. You won't find anything like a "Lagrangian", "amplitudes", "masses", "cross section", "energy", "force", "Hamiltonian", "entropy", "path integral", "temperature", or other words that you expect in physics paper. When he talks about actions, they're always wrong actions from some previous obscure papers that have clearly nothing to do with observable physics either. On the other hand, you find a lot of random assignments of particles to vertices of polytopes - something that you know from papers about the octopi. "

http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/11/exceptionally-simple-theory-of.html

[tx_eggman]

I think that white dot in the center of the pic on the left is me!

Actually the pic on the left is a photo of my right eye the morning after too much single malt.

[wolfcreek]

DO NOT STARE AT E8 TOO LONG. IT WILL MAKE THE WHOLE PAGE SPIN!

[marvlus]

Later read.

[dljordan]

“It looks like a doily, not a potholder. I have disproven your theory with one simple, elegant rebuttal.”

I reject your reality and impose my own. It’s a fractal mandala laid down by exiled Tibetan monks living on Maui.

[RightWhale]

This was in a thread a while ago. 248 dimensions but it needs only 3 spatial and 1 temporal. Bogosity happening here. Multibogosity. Maximus bogismus. OTOH it does add to indeterminateness so it isn’t all bad.

[Grut]

He is likely unemployed w/ good reason.

I seem to recall that after a certain point, around 130, IQ is negatively correllated with 'success'. Also that at one time, the person with the highest IQ in Australia earned her living as a belly dancer.

The very smart, in other words, are very different.

[PGR88]

“BEING POOR SUCKS”

Looks like he has also figured out a unifying theory of economics also.

[nonsporting]

The E8 looks like a potholder.

Area rug.

[BOBTHENAILER]

after we drank up uncle zeb’s white lightnin’.

Old geezer on ethanol, eh?

[Grut]

Incidentally, is it just me or if you put a beard on the guy would he be a dead ringer for Oscar Boom?

[snarks_when_bored]

Yes, I figured folks would follow links from Peter Woit’s page to Motl’s page. Motl failed to get tenure at Harvard, but he’s learned nothing from the experience.

[Syncro]

Didn’t Einstien surf?

I imagine it’s all relative. Now keep in mind, that’s just a theory.