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Old 11-17-2007, 01:25 AM
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Maybe^1000, then ya maybe. However very facinating.
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Old 11-17-2007, 03:49 AM
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You can watch a Youtube video describing the theory in relative layman's terms here.

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I enjoyed the pretty colors and movement of the video and how everything aligned, but I had to do some googling on my own to figure out what everything is. Very cool stuff though, once I wrapped my head around it.

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Yeah, that's why I linked the E8 article and the definition of a Lie Group before linking the video

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to make us more confused, right?
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Old 11-17-2007, 09:35 AM
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to make us more confused, right?

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this article is about cutting edge nuclear physics and cutting edge math; it's going to be difficult to understand.
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Old 11-17-2007, 05:02 PM
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I just wish our smartest scientists would spend a little less time thinking up huge untestable / very expensively testable theories with little practical application and more time working on things like the Microwave invisibility cloak, hoverboard, etc.

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Old 11-17-2007, 05:14 PM
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to make us more confused, right?

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this article is about cutting edge nuclear physics and cutting edge math; it's going to be difficult to understand.

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Maybe for you....
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Old 11-17-2007, 05:59 PM
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to make us more confused, right?

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this article is about cutting edge nuclear physics and cutting edge math; it's going to be difficult to understand.

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Maybe for you....

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for me or theblackkeys? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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Old 11-17-2007, 06:01 PM
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PALO ALTO, Calif. — An international team of mathematicians has cracked a 120-year-old puzzle that researchers say is so complicated that its handwritten solution would cover the island of Manhattan.

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When stored in highly compressed form on a computer hard drive, the solution takes up 60 gigabytes

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did this jar with anyone else? More like one city block would be my guess.
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Old 11-17-2007, 08:07 PM
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PALO ALTO, Calif. — An international team of mathematicians has cracked a 120-year-old puzzle that researchers say is so complicated that its handwritten solution would cover the island of Manhattan.

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When stored in highly compressed form on a computer hard drive, the solution takes up 60 gigabytes

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did this jar with anyone else? More like one city block would be my guess.

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60GB of highly compressed TEXT is a lot of numbers and letters imo.
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Old 11-17-2007, 08:08 PM
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This is very cool.
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Old 11-17-2007, 08:22 PM
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Default Re: Grand Unified Theory Solved... Maybe

I showed this to a friend of mine who studies physics and then we did a little poking around on the internet. This is getting suspiciously little media attention and no mainstream academic attention and there are at least some people saying the guy is a total crackpot:

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

Sorry to ruin the fun.
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