Great interview with Garrett Lisi (author of a kickass ToE)

[Martin]

Here is the interview:

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/08/garrett-lisis-inspiration.html

 

 

here is some background provided as a footnote

http://interstice.com/~aglisi/Physics/CV.html

Garrett Lisi is a wandering surfer-physicist, working on nomothetic unification while searching for the perfect wave. After graduating UCLA at the top of his class and getting his Ph.D. from UC San Diego, Garrett took off for Maui to windsurf and do physics on his own. Last year Garrett won a research grant from http://www.fqxi.org/ FQXi, which he spent on food, a laptop, and a new snowboard.

 

His work on unifying general relativity and the standard model as an E8 principal bundle was featured as a recent http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week253.html

This Week's Find by John Baez . Impatient with the slow progress of technology, Garrett has been manually uploading his brain to the web as an open-source theoretical research wiki: http://deferentialgeometry.org/ Deferential Geometry. He also blogs occasionally at http://www.fqxi.org/community/blogs.php FQXi blogs and has a semi-secret personal journal.

 

Garrett recently presented his work at conferences in http://www.matmor.unam.mx/eventos/loops07/ Mexico and http://interstice.com/~aglisi/albums/Iceland/Iceland.html Iceland, is currently hopping around California, and is looking forward to visiting the Perimeter Institute in October.

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[BenTheMan]

I remember asking a question about the conformal transformations for pure gauge Yang Mills theory in four dimensions on another forum---I had worked out an answer that couldn't be correct, and this guy (Garrett) answered with just one line:

 

[math]F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu} = F_{\mu\nu}F_{\alpha\beta}g^{\alpha\mu}g^{\beta\nu}[/math].

 

I felt pretty foolish because this statement should be completely obvious.

[Martin]

I remember asking a question about the conformal transformations for pure gauge Yang Mills theory in four dimensions on another forum---I had worked out an answer that couldn't be correct, and this guy (Garrett) answered with just one line:

 

[math]F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu} = F_{\mu\nu}F_{\alpha\beta}g^{\alpha\mu}g^{\beta\nu}[/math].

...

 

very much to your credit to be engaging people of that caliber (on whatever forum)

 

I hope he gets a prolonged stay at Perimeter where he will be visiting in October. Seems to be a very nice guy---capable and independent.

 

BTW Garrett presented his work at the Loops 07 conference back in June and I may be able to get links to his slides and audio.

(I already posted the slides and audio for the talk by Martin Reuter. It was a great conference, lot of new work.) I'll see...

 

Yes, here are the slides

http://www.matmor.unam.mx/eventos/loops07/talks/2A/Lisi.pdf

and here is the audio

http://www.matmor.unam.mx/eventos/loops07/talks/2A/Lisi.mp3

[BenTheMan]

very much to your credit to be engaging people of that caliber (on whatever forum)

 

Very much to his credit that he answered such a stupid question