Garrett Lisi

How a physicist published and vetted his revolutionary work signals the potential future of an open, transparent peer review process. Illustration: Bernd Schifferdecker. Garrett Lisi gets it. The couch-surfing, academia-shunning theoretical physicist grasps something that, for scientists, is possibly more elusive than illuminating the complicated behavior of subatomic particles: balance in life. Don't want to be stuck in a lab? Get out. Want to travel the world living where you please, doing...Read Full Story

Theoretical physicist Garrett Lisi made his name with a paper called "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything", which proposes a unified field theory that reconciles Einstein's relativity theory with particle physics. But he's equally known for shattering stereotypes – when he's not surfing wave equations, he's riding the biggest breakers on earth, and loving it! By Mitch Potter Washington Bureau thestar.com Jan 30 2010 WASHINGTON–Some people just seem to have an answer for everything...Read Full Story

Surfer dude’s theory of everything: the magic of Garrett Lisi The Big Idea: Roger Highfield explains why Garrett Lisi, the surfer who drew up a ‘theory of everything’ to explain the universe, is a great role model for science. Roger Highfield writes: Of all the stories I’ve written in recent years, the most popular by far bore the intriguing headline: “ Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything .” It described how an American, Garrett Lisi, had unveiled a new way to unite the...Read Full Story

New Scientist Space Blog: Surfer physicist gets grant to study theory of everything A. Garrett Lisi lives the life. While most of the news stories about this young theoretical physicist focus on his not having a job and slacking all over the place with his surfer buddies, the New Scientist reveals that Lisi doesn't need a job -- he gets $77,222 this year to think about physics by way of a grant from the Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology Institute. Not only that, but he was also...Read Full Story

A laid-back surfer has just drawn up a new theory of the universe that is blowing the establishment’s socks off. His theory is seen by some as the “Holy Grail of physics”, and is earning rave reviews from distinguished scientists. In fact, his model appears to be the elusive overarching explanation to unite all the particles and forces of the cosmos, which has been the most baffling riddle of modern physics—stumping even Einstein. Garrett Lisi, 39, may be operating outside of the scientific...Read Full Story

(Emory University) The "exceptionally simple theory of everything," proposed by surfing physicist Garrett Lisi, does not hold water, says Emory University mathematician Skip Garibaldi. He disproves the theory in a co-authored paper set to appear in Communications in Mathematical Physics. Centered on the elegant E8 structure, they use linear algebra and proving theorems to translate the physics into math, and show that Lisi's formulas don't work, while also demonstrating flaws in a class of...Read Full Story

Most people fortunate enough to goof off for a year or two after finishing their education and before assuming their respectable enslavement in the "real world" may want to obtain their Phd first. It would seem that if Garrett Lisi is any example, living as an impoverished nomad after you finish a Phd is the way to go (as if there is any choice but relative impoverishment for most people with Phd's anyway). Check out this article that appeared in the U.K. Telegraph yesterday. It appears...Read Full Story

This is quite an astonishing story. Brilliance always seems to come out of the most unlikely places. I once knew a guy who had absolutely no knowledge of sub-atomic particles, yet he fully fleshed out a description of a quark in a Freshman physics class. Needless to say, our professor was dumbfounded (this before the internet, where finding crap is easy). At the very least, my friend knew how to look stuff up in the library, which in itself exhibits some sort of intelligence :) He claims he...Read Full Story

The "exceptionally simple theory of everything," proposed by surfing physicist Garrett Lisi, does not hold water, according to some mathematicians. Centered on the elegant E8 structure, they use linear algebra and proving theorems to translate the physics into math, and show that Lisi's formulas don't work, while also demonstrating flaws in a class of related theories.Read Full Story

This morning while waiting for Devin to get ready for school so I could drive him there, I got on the computer to check my email and then stumbled upon the surfer dude who stuns physicists with his theory of everything. http://tinyurl.com/2beznl The article caught my eye because Garrett Lisi surfer dude studied at the University of California, San Diego, less than an hour's drive from Fallbrook . And he apparently also spends time in Northern California in Tahoe, somewhat near Redding , my...Read Full Story