Garrett Lisi - surfer, physicist, writer of "An exceptionally simple theory of everything"
Our universe is the equivalent of a growing E8 Coral analogy, branching into different possibility.
Quantum mechanics in a sentence - "Everything that can happen does"
Can't predict what will happen when the Hadron particle accelerator goes online, pushing things 7x faster than ever possible before. Quantum physics tells us everything will. Hoping to find the Higgs particle.
My head hurts. He presses a button to rotate 4-dimensional charge spaces. Plus 'up/down' for 6-dimensional charge space, of course.
And here is 8-dimensional charge space:
The animated visual poetry of what he is showing in conjunction with what he describes is awesome.
Apparently, all of physics is resolved in wild images straight off a spiro-graph.
Coincidence? Everything that can happen does. You decide.
the universe is a spirograph! I posted something about Lisi a while back: http://pageman.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/e8-an-exceptionally-simple-theory-of-everything-surfer-dude-garrett-lisi/
Posted by: The Pageman | 2008.10.28 at 09:32