Rock climber debunks surfer's 'everything theory'
Mathematician and rock climber Skip Garibaldi has published a paper refuting the 2007 “exceptionally simple theory of everything” proposed by surfer and physicist Garrett Lisi, who suggested that E8 is the unifying force for all the forces of the universe.
First identified in 1887, E8 has 248 dimensions and cannot be seen, or even drawn, in its complete form. Below, is an E8-inspired graph.
Full story at Futurity.
Illustration credit: Wikimedia Commons/J. G. Moxness
