physics dudes, i has question

[TecHNooB]

so now that we found the higgs boson, what ever happened to that theory of everything by that surfer dude? proved? disproved?

 

[esun]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Garrett_Lisi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory_of_Everything

 

[silverpig]

Basically it's all there in esun's links, but basically, the surfer dude's theory wasn't ever complete and it has a lot of problems with it. It still has potential, and it is interesting, but it just isn't very well developed yet.

I seem to recall it did have the Higgs as one of the vertices in E8 somewhere, but can't recall for sure.