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Re: [Phys-l] Lisi :: "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything"



Hi --

For those of you who may be interested in following Garrett
Lisi's E8 adventure, here are some resources:

Garrett Lisi's own site, serving has his "personal notebook"
including slides from his recent talks:
http://deferentialgeometry.org/

Cute movie showing some rotations of the E8 root diagram,
nice kaleidoscope effect:
http://deferentialgeometry.org/anim/e8rotation.mov

Blog by Sabine Hossenfelder ... starts with nice summary,
then lots of back-and-forth involving people who know
what they're talking about, including Garrett.
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/11/theoretically-simple-exception-of.html

Blog by Peter Woit ... lead-off posting that didn't do much
for me, followed by good back-and-forth, including Garrett:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=617

There's probably other good blog action that I don't know
about, but those two should be enough to get started with.