http://garrettlisi.com/

Particle explorer

http://www.ted.com/talks/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_everything.html

QuoteThe paper's goal is to describe how the combined structure and dynamics of all gravitational and Standard Model particle fields, including fermions, are part of the E8 Lie algebra.

So the whole universe is part of a massive lie? sounds about right ^^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory_of_Everything

QuoteThe theory received accolades from a few physicists amid a flurry of media coverage, but also met with widespread skepticism.[4] Scientific American reported in March 2008 that the theory was being "largely but not entirely ignored" by the mainstream physics community, with a few physicists picking up the work to develop it further.[5]

The problem is that there are a huge number of particle physicists out there with competing ideas about how things work, each with a massive investment of time and effort in their pet theory, so it's probably going to be a very long time before we can get any agreement at all on this.

To be honest science and religion has a lot in common about this, you have competing groups each touting their pet 'theory' with at least gaps in the evidence. I guess Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy was right, as long as there is some doubt everyone can stay on the gravy train.

The big difference being that science has a basis in fundamental and proven mathematical concepts that can be studied, checked for proof and countered with rebuttals of other theories. I can't remember who said it before but someone once said if you were to somehow erase all the wordly knowledge of science and religion and start again from scratch, you would still end up with religious 'theory' but it would never be exactly the same, whereas scientific theory would always be rediscovered as exactly the same concepts.

Fair play to the guy for going out there on his own to study outside of the accepted theories and try to find his own proofs.

Einsteins formula E=MC² is simple, Einstein also said if you can not explain something in a simple way when you probably do not understand it, that is why I like this theory