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Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 14 Nov 2007 | Roger Highfield

Posted on 11/14/2007 11:33:43 AM PST by snarks_when_bored

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To: Gideon7

sweeeeetttt......


81 posted on 11/14/2007 12:28:09 PM PST by bpjam (Harry Reid doesn't even have 32% of my approval)
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To: snarks_when_bored

if his theory isn’t based on Intelligent Design, it’s wrong.


82 posted on 11/14/2007 12:28:11 PM PST by balch3
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To: snarks_when_bored

>>”Some incredibly beautiful stuff falls out of Lisi’s theory,” adds David Ritz Finkelstein at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. “This must be more than coincidence and he really is touching on something profound.”<<

I know Dr. Finklestein and if he is impressed then is very likely worth looking at.

That said, until valid predictions are made and there is full peer review, its just “very interesating” and not the Theory of Everything.


83 posted on 11/14/2007 12:29:33 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: Miles the Slasher

SO TAKE A LESSON FROM A TOP NOTCH SURFER BOY....

So take a lesson from a top-notch surfer boy
(catch a wave, catch a wave)
(Every Saturday boy)
But don’t you treat it like a toy
Just get away from the shady turf
And baby, go catch some rays on the sunny
surf
And when you catch a wave you’ll be sittin’ on
top of the world


84 posted on 11/14/2007 12:29:41 PM PST by flat
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To: madvlad

“He is likely unemployed w/ good reason.”

Before his friends found him a job as a patent clerk, Albert Einstein almost starved to death. His girl-friend Mileva had to put their infant daughter up for adoption, and they never saw or heard from the girl again.

It would seem quite appropriate for a surfer-dude to be the successor of a patent clerk. You were expecting a University professor?


85 posted on 11/14/2007 12:30:18 PM PST by devere
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To: Bender2
Indeed, being poor sucks less than my life, apparently. Surfing and snowboarding in glamorous places all the time. Dude, you rock!!!

Where exactly is the mens room on the E8? Anyone?

86 posted on 11/14/2007 12:32:05 PM PST by Sender (You are the weapon. What you hold in your hand is just a tool.)
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To: Constantine XIII

>>“Now Lisi, currently in Nevada, has come up with a proposal to do this. Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, describes Lisi’s work as “fabulous”. “It is one of the most compelling unification models I’ve seen in many, many years,” he says.”

That thar is an impressive endorsement. O_O<<

Dr. Smoin wrote a semi-famous book “The Trouble with Physics” that led a new skepticism of string theory. He is well published on Quantum Gravity but yeah, his university does sound dinky.


87 posted on 11/14/2007 12:34:04 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: devere

You mean like Jeff Spicoli?

Pardon my cynicism...

But I’ve been around, ya know.
There was a time I could see. And I have seen.
Boys like these; younger than these w/ their arms blown off,
their legs torn off.

MV


88 posted on 11/14/2007 12:35:26 PM PST by madvlad (A republican at age 20 has no heart; a democrat at age 50 has no brain. Brains are better.)
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To: weegee

Ahem. Its the Journal of Obscure and Irreproducible Data.

MV
(published in Science, Proceedings of the Natl Acad of Sciences,
Jour of Exp Med, Jour of Immunol, Jour of Clin Invest et al.)

And I still put my pants on the same way as most folks. :)


89 posted on 11/14/2007 12:39:24 PM PST by madvlad (A republican at age 20 has no heart; a democrat at age 50 has no brain. Brains are better.)
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To: dblshot
Simple? Beautifull maybe but simple, I think not.

Maybe "elegant," or "symmetrical" would be a better term.

90 posted on 11/14/2007 12:40:43 PM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: madvlad

There are a couple of such publications now.

http://www.jir.com/

I’ve had my hardcover compendium since the 1980s. I don’t know which publication was first.


91 posted on 11/14/2007 12:44:17 PM PST by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: All

haha. these dumb surfer comments are the funniest thing i’ve ever seen. who has more ? i’d really appreciate one that makes the surfer scientist look stupid and manages to throw in a high-five to intelligent design.


92 posted on 11/14/2007 12:44:54 PM PST by Eddeche
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To: Eddeche

Just paddle out
turn around and raise;
that’s all there is to the coastline craze;
catch a wave and you’re sittin’ on top of the world.

I see a wave and its like “Hey Dude! Let’s party!”

MV


93 posted on 11/14/2007 12:49:29 PM PST by madvlad (A republican at age 20 has no heart; a democrat at age 50 has no brain. Brains are better.)
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To: MrB

Quick guide to Freshman Physics:

F=MA and you can’t push on a string.


94 posted on 11/14/2007 12:50:32 PM PST by Erasmus (My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
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To: Sudetenland

What’s yellow and dangerous?


95 posted on 11/14/2007 12:50:56 PM PST by pdunkin
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To: Miles the Slasher

Brilliant man.... There are but a few of us willing to state the conviction.

Most of unenlightened mankind insists on 38.


96 posted on 11/14/2007 12:52:12 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: rightinthemiddle

Atleast you got the photo from the era when the pens leaked or produced clogged little blobs.


97 posted on 11/14/2007 12:53:01 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Aquinasfan
"I find it interesting that physicists tend to assume that beauty and simplicity are signs of a valid "theory of everything."

The current buzzword among scientists in this regard seems to be "elegant". The last several years I keep hearing scientists use it on television or in print when describing theories or observed phenomena.

98 posted on 11/14/2007 12:53:42 PM PST by joebuck
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To: pdunkin

A vietnamese orphan showing up at a vets house.


99 posted on 11/14/2007 12:54:06 PM PST by dblshot
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To: Greg F

that was definitely a heavenly body....


100 posted on 11/14/2007 12:54:40 PM PST by tumblindice
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