A relatively unschooled surfer discovers the TOE!?!

[yossarian]

Seems like we might have a candidate for the next einstein/newton/hawkings...

let me know if you see any further developments on this guys ideas, please

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai...-mostviewedbox

[mkirkpatrick]

Seems like we might have a candidate for the next einstein/newton/hawkings...

let me know if you see any further developments on this guys ideas, please

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai...-mostviewedbox

Thanks for the link.looks really impressive.



regards michael.

[neutralino]

How is a guy with a PhD "relatively unschooled"?

[neutralino]

let me know if you see any further developments on this guys ideas, please

Here is a link to the thread I started on the topic last week.

[yossarian]

How is a guy with a PhD "relatively unschooled"?

well, that was not the right words...didn't he leave the scientific community to do other things, surf etc? I guess I meant he isn't working within the field he may have just provided the largest breakthrough in 40+ years to.

sorry, bad choice of words.

[neutralino]

well, that was not the right words...didn't he leave the scientific community to do other things, surf etc? I guess I meant he isn't working within the field he may have just provided the largest breakthrough in 40+ years to.

It's correct that Lisi was not working in academia when he made this breakthrough, however I think it's media hype trying to draw the links with Einstein. From what I gather, Lisi did not enter academia after his PhD since he disagreed with being forced into string theory, so he left to go and surf (or whatever he does). Still, I doubt he did this entirely on his own: I know he went to Perimeter at least once, and has been in contact with John Baez and Lee Smolin amongst others. It's an incredible achievement, even if it turns out to be incorrect, but not done by an academic nomad.