PhD Surf Bum Proposes New Unified Theory

[AvivaSimplex]

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This guy is an enormous dick.

[JMAnon]

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


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This guy is an enormous dick.

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Agreed. But that doesn't mean he's wrong.

[wacki]

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


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This guy is an enormous dick.

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Agreed. But that doesn't mean he's wrong.

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He has a long track record of screwing up some really simple stuff and has a habit of disagreeing with mainstream scientists on a variety of topics. It would be wise to look for other sources of information even if it's only to double check what he writes.

[thylacine]

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


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This guy is an enormous dick.

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Agreed. But that doesn't mean he's wrong.

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He has a long track record of screwing up some really simple stuff and has a habit of disagreeing with mainstream scientists on a variety of topics. It would be wise to look for other sources of information even if it's only to double check what he writes.

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You've got me curious. What is it he screwed up? And who does he disagree with? You're talking about Motl right? I thought he was with the mainstream string theorists, though clearly not part of the mainstream personality-wise.

[Duke]

I came in here to see if there was discussion about this topic, and kinda hoped that Borodog would have weighed in by now.

I'm a huge fan of symmetry arguments for pretty much everything, so I'm obviously pretty interested in this work. It'll take me another couple weeks to really understand this theory enough to draw my own conclusions, as I'd never heard of E8 or about half of the previous cited work that they're talking about.

I believe that I recall the dude at arstechnica having huge problems with the paper doing things like assigning velocities to energies, and other nonsense. When it comes to this sort of thing though, some sorts of nonsense get me even more excited about the theories, and I'm not yet decided if this is good nonsense or bad.

Going through the paper, though, it looks like Boro might be a bit unhappy about the units.

Anyhow, I'll be checking back in periodically on this topic specifically.

[Borodog]

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came in here to see if there was discussion about this topic, and kinda hoped that Borodog would have weighed in by now.

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This sort of esoteric stuff is so far out of my field that I might as well be a plumber. I always defer to Metric on crazy [censored] like this.

[LeadbellyDan]

My comology lecturer pooh poohed this guy.