The Geometry of Particle Physics

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Interesting twist for base of TOE. Do you think this surfer is set to snatch the prize from Biocentrism and M-Theory?

[video=youtube;wfALJzn1hE8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfALJzn1hE8&list=PL6KFgypBk2_UqWjcJjf0kSR746jHtqKEW[/video]
 
If i'm not mistaking E8 is a contender for m-theory not part of it. There is a strange correlation between the behaviour of these particles and an 8 dimensional hyper cube's points (Octeract) which is what this guy's theory is based on.
 
I doubt you're mistaken. M-Theory is an extension of string theory which was first postulated back in the 70's by Michio Kaku.

In Garrett Lisi's 'An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything', or E8, he describes reality as continuously branching out into separate possibilities of which one is realised. The model itself is 248-dimensional.
 
Really? :confused: , i can only find material of his on this from the 90s .

WWW only went commercial in 1994 so could explain why the journals might not be available on the internet. Here's two references though, one from his blog, another from Google books.

http://books.google.co.za/books/abo...and_Topology.html?id=9d-JpKu-2u0C&redir_esc=y

Michio Kaku was born January 24, 1947 in San Jose California. Kaku attended Cubberley High School in Palo Alto in the early 1960s and played first board on their chess team. At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller, who took Kaku as a protégé, awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. Kaku graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a B.S. degree in 1968 and was first in his physics class. He attended the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1972 and held a lectureship at Princeton University in 1973. During the Vietnam War, Kaku completed his U.S. Army basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia and his advanced infantry training at Fort Lewis, Washington. Kaku currently holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics and a joint appointment at City College of New York, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he has lectured for more than 30 years. Presently, he is engaged in defining the "Theory of Everything", which seeks to unify the four fundamental forces of the universe: the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, gravity and electromagnetism. He was a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and New York University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and American Men and Women of Science. He has published research articles on string theory from 1969 to 2000. In 1974, along with Prof. K. Kikkawa, he wrote the first paper on string field theory, now a major branch of string theory, which summarizes each of the five string theories into a single equation. In addition to his work on string field theory, he also authored some of the first papers on multi-loop amplitudes in string theory. Kaku is the author of several doctoral textbooks on string theory and quantum field theory and has published 170 articles in journals covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics. He is also author of the popular science books: Visions, Hyperspace, Einstein's Cosmos, and Parallel Worlds.

http://bigthink.com/dr-kakus-universe/a-short-history-of-string-theory-what-to-do-if-you-have-a-proposal-for-the-unified-field-theory

Personally, I remember back in the 1970s when string theory fell out of favor. At the time, it was very difficult to get a job and many people dismissed the theory as heresy. This of course is a common instance for new ideas or theories to initially be dismissed that are not yet understood. A few examples are Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM stating that he believed there was a world market for maybe five computers back in 1943. We also know that the world was once thought to be flat and human flight seemed impossible. We now know that the world is round and we now have planes that travel thousands of miles per hour.

Many of my friends were actually kicked out of the profession because you could not get a job doing work on this "bizarre" theory called string theory which is fundamentally defined in hyperspace. In fact, we used to joke that the a great place to find string theorists was the unemployment line. The tables have turned and we have now come full circle. The theory once thought to be science fiction and something out of the twilight zone has now become the center of gravity of theoretical physics.
 
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