SURFING THE UNIVERSE.

LISI, Garrett; THEORY of everything (Physics); CONFERENCES & conventions; STRING models (Physics); SMOLIN, Lee

MORELIA (Michoacan de Ocampo, Mexico); MEXICOReport Available

This article discusses a speech given by Garrett Lisi at a professional conference on loop quantum gravity and string theory in Morelia, Mexico. Lee Smolin, a founder of the field of loop quantum gravity and a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada, who believes that he discovered the Theory of Everything in Lisi's speech. The theory was published on the Internet under the title "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything.