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Any fans out there of theories of everything?

I've never been good enough at HEP theory to do more than skim this stuff, but I particularly liked the end of section 5: "The theory has no free parameters. The coupling constants are unified at high energy, and the cosmological constant and masses arise from the vacuum expectation values of the various Higgs fields..." - the guy is simply reeling off desirable features from the GUT ticklist.

I eagerly await the results of some peer review, and about a decade of LHC running. :-)

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Lubos is an unpleasant troll. He may also be a brilliant physicist: I'm not qualified to judge. More moderate physicists seem to think that what Garrett has done is very interesting but suffers from some unresolved (but not necessarily unresolvable) problems. There's a long thread here, which goes into the issues in some detail.