Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

[AtW]

I am Spartacus.

[Churchill]

I am Spartacus.

No you're not, you're a lying commie pinko lefty subversive with lesbian tendencies.

Are you SASGURU?

BtW AtW, have you seen the armoured Range Rovers for sale in the Sunday Times Motoring supplement? B4 & B6 <-- WTF does this mean?

[AtW]

I like Range Rovers.

B4 and B6 are levels of bullet-proofness, here are the details.

So, B4 protects from handguns, it is not a lot, B6 covers AKs which is pretty good, but you need something better to save yourself from armour piercing three ought six, and there is not a lot you can do against RPGs and especially EFPs, you can't do much against plasma entering your vehicle at speed of 2 km/sec

[scooterscot]

you can't do much against plasma entering your vehicle at speed of 2 km/sec

Sure you can - get out of the way of the plasma.

I forget the number of US sailors injured out on deck because they wanted to watch a missle luanch... numties. In the RN it's batten down the hatches...

[AtW]

Sure you can - get out of the way of the plasma.

Yes and given that assassins blow up EFP next to your car, with speed of plasma-like-metal piercing through your car at speed of 2km/sec and you being no more than 5 meters away you have got exactly 0.0025 of second to get out of the way of plasma

[PerlOfWisdom]

If he's got it then fantastic

The article stinks though, have you actually read his theory?

It’s full of mathematics that I recognize but are way above what a non physics/Mathematics graduate would even be able to start to comprehend.

The theory itself is based on the symmetry of a 57 dimensional object (giving a total of 248 dimensions)

He's not a random surfer dude - he's a physics PHD graduate (ie he's spent 6-10 years studying physics and published new research of his own).

The Telegraph managed to over romanticize the article and completely ruined what could have been a really good story

He's wasting his time, it's god what did it.

[Churchill]

He's wasting his time, it's god what did it.

Yeah, and as soon as we figure out the meaning to everything it'll be game over. He's toying with us!

[KathyWoolfe]

As I am behind most of the characters on here, you would just get me.

You're not behind me!.....I'm behind you!

[TimberWolf]

Bigger than the Human Genome

The magnitude of the E8 calculation invites comparison with the Human Genome Project. The human genome, which contains all the genetic information of a cell, is less than a gigabyte in size.

Here's something that could handle it:

"I speak of none other than the computer that is to come after me," intoned Deep Thought. "A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate - and yet I will design it for you. A computer which can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix. And you yourselves shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten-million-year program!

[wendigo100]

That sounds like the blueprint for threaded.