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a surfer Lisi on his TOE :: how the Higgs boson relates to Lie group E8

Last year a nomadic surfer living in Maui uploaded a physics paper to arXiv which contributes to the TOE. The paper entitled "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything [TOE]" is a a pun on the Lie algebra of the largest simple but exceptional Lie group E8. Here's the author, Antony Garrett Lisi, informally presenting his beautiful 8-dimensional model of elementary particles:

Even if his theory wipes out (cf. current Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN), Lisi has the life style down right QED.  By the way, just yesterday I wrote a post regarding Everything that is possible does happen (in some branch of the multiverse ;-) which Lisi mentions briefly.