The Theory of Everything, Cracked?

That is what some people are saying about the work of Garrett Lisi, 39. A surfer, no less.

The picture above is a two dimensional representation of E8, a geometric pattern that Lili claims is the shape of the universe. His theory can be read here if you understand physics. Here’s an excerpt:

All fields of the standard model and gravity are unified as an E8 principal bundle connection. A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has G2 and F4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality. The interactions and dynamics of these 1-form and Grassmann valued parts of an E8 superconnection are described by the curvature and action over a four dimensional base manifold.

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