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[elvum]

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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[gaspodog.livejournal.com]

It seems that my theory may be just as good as his after all...

Again, I am no expert, so I bow t those who know more about it, but Ars Technica reckon it's bollocks, and you can see the blog post they are working from as well as a forum thread discussing the paper.

The main guy discrediting it (the blog poster) is a string theorist, but his reasoning seems sound, so I don't think it's just jealousy. His track record as a theorist looks ok though - if his former jobs and body of published work are anything to go by.

Apparently he does like to argue with the Quantum Loop Gravity people, so maybe he just likes to cause a fuss.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

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.