Is this the theory of everything?

This elegant model by Garrett Lisi may at last reveal the link between gravity and the other fundamental forces of nature. It is based on the Lie Group E8.
Garrett Lisi is an unlikely individual to be staking a claim for a theory of everything. He has no university affiliation and spends most of the year surfing in Hawaii. In winter, he heads to the mountains near Lake Tahoe, California, to teach snowboarding. Until recently, physics was not much more than a hobby.
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