Garrett Lisi | |
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 Lisi being interviewed in Los Angeles, in 2011 | |
| Born | Antony Garrett Lisi January 24, 1968 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | UCLA UCSD |
| Known for | "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Pacific Science Institute |
| Website | li.si |
Antony Garrett Lisi (born January 24, 1968), known as Garrett Lisi,[1] is an American theoretical physicist. Lisi works as an independent researcher without an academic position.
Lisi is known for "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything," an unpublished preprint paper proposing a unified field theory based on the E8 Lie group, combining particle physics with Einstein's theory of gravitation. The theory is incomplete and has unresolved problems. The theory has been extensively criticized in the scientific community.[2][3][4]
- ^ Lisi, A.G. (July 5, 2008). "'A' (What, like as opposed to the Garrett Lisi?)". sifter.org. Archived from the original on 23 May 2008. Retrieved July 5, 2008.
- ^ "Surfer makes waves with scientific 'theory of everything'". CBC News. November 16, 2007. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved July 2, 2008.
- ^ Collins, Graham P. (March 2008). "Wipeout?". Scientific American. pp. 30–32. Retrieved June 18, 2008.
- ^ J.Distler & S. Garibaldi (2010). "There is no "Theory of Everything" inside E8". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 298 (2): 419–436. arXiv:0905.2658. Bibcode:2010CMaPh.298..419D. doi:10.1007/s00220-010-1006-y. S2CID 15074118.