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yeah more funding and focus should start to focus on stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory_of_Everything https://en.wiki

• aroberge 6y ago
  > yeah more funding and focus should start to focus on stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory... This Wikipedia entry is 1) generically about the type of unproven theoretical model without experimental support that is used in an attempt to justify investment in the next big collider; 2) more specifically, about a theoretical model that has been shown to be wrong in terms of describing what we observe.
• jfengel 6y ago
  Lisi's work is generally considered extremely unlikely by physicists. The eye-catching title and colorfulness of its author attracts a lot of attention with the public, but it doesn't match experiment. It has basically been abandoned. I agree that we could probably spend billions of dollars better than on another enormous collider, even within high-energy physics, but it probably wouldn't be best spent on E8 Theory. Figuring out how it would be best spent, however, would be contentious to say the least.
  • deepstack 6y ago
    be interested to see those paper that disproves them. Can't be any worse then the string theory.