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September 16, 2008
SLUM Brown Bag: The RL-SL Connection: Wizard, Mathematical Modeling, and the E8 Polytope
Friday, September 19
Noon to 1:00 PM, EDT
9:00-10:00 AM SLT
Temple of Sacred Geometry: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tibet/141/200/24
Garrett Lisi has achieved recent fame for his model of the E8 Polytope, the most recent claim to a model of a unified field theory for physics. We will see a 3-dimensional version of the model presented, along with the story of its development, by Wizard Gynoid, a Second Life artist who partnered with mathematicians on building the model.
On November 6, 2007, Garrett Lisi (sometimes referred to as a surfer dude) posted an article to arXiv that rocked the profession of particle physics. For more background information on this achievement and how this shows a changing future for academic publishing, look at this presentation on how social technologies empowered an important scientific voice that might not have been heard under the traditional publishing model.
Posted by pfa at September 16, 2008 08:19 AM