E8 Theory of Everything conclusively disproved

Elegant but unfortunately inaccurate, Garett Lisi's E8 Theory of Everything sought to map out all particle (known and yet to be discovered: see Higgs Boson among many others) interactions in physics in a Grand Unified Theory (GUT). The E8, for those of us who are not mathematicians, is a complex member of the Lie Group of mathematical structures of dimension 248. As an individual with a profound interest in physics, it's a relief to conclude that there is an exceptional amount of work to be done (who would have thought?).

Lisi's Theory has in criticized by a number of experts of both mathematics and physics, including Dr. Skip Garibaldi, of Emory University. According to a recent article on Physorg, Garibaldi collaborated with University of Texas Physicist Jacques Distler to conclusively debunk the Lisi's Theory of Everything by proving some formula's in Lisi's E8 paper simply do not work.

In Garibaldi's words,

"You can think of E8 as a room, and the four subgroups related to the four fundamental forces of nature as furniture, let's say chairs," Garibaldi explains. "It's pretty easy to see that the room is big enough that you can put all four of the chairs inside it. The problem with 'the theory of everything' is that the way it arranges the chairs in the room makes them non-functional."

If you're interested, you can read Garibaldi's paper here.

Source: PhysOrg