PhD Surf Bum Proposes New Unified Theory

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Here's a link to the story.

Does anyone here know anything about this that they could dumb down to layman's terms? It seems to relate highly to this E8 pattern. another link, about E8.

"E8 is the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional. E8 itself is 248-dimensional."

So if anyone can explain 248 dimensions to me I'd appreciate it. I'm an EE so I have some background in physics, but this stuff seems to be a little beyond me.