Cookies am 1. Advent

How about baking some cookies this Sunday?...and maybe some Gluehwein or Feuerzangenbowle? Matthias?

Read by Sunday morning!

An unknown supporter of the theory of everything sent me the original article...it seems to me there is a sign error in equation 2.2 though...

http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770

also check out this great work on Stuperspace.

http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/parodies/stuperspace.html

Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 6:01pm GMT 14/11/2007

An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientist

The E8 pattern (left), Garrett Lisi surfing (middle) and out of the water (right)

Garrett Lisi, 39, has a doctorate but no university affiliation and spends most of the year surfing in Hawaii, where he has also been a hiking guide and bridge builder (when he slept in a jungle yurt).

In winter, he heads to the mountains near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he snowboards. "Being poor sucks," Lisi says. "It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month."

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