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Re:Has a surfer Ph.D. rewritten physics? Maybe. by rguzman on Sunday July 27, 2008 @01:54PM (#258302)
I really don't know enough to say one way or the other, but for those who care, here is some skepticism about Lisi's paper: http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/11/exceptionally-simple-theor...
Re:Has a surfer Ph.D. rewritten physics? Maybe. by vsingh on Sunday July 27, 2008 @02:11PM (#258321)
This Lubos Motl guy seems to be a sort of Erik Naggum of physics. Yikes.
Re:Has a surfer Ph.D. rewritten physics? Maybe. by rguzman on Monday July 28, 2008 @12:23AM (#258727)
This also an older post back from when Lisi's paper first came out: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=617 Again, I don't really know too much about this stuff, but it should be interesting to anyone who'd like to get to the bottom of how credible the paper is.