Garrett Lisi

Garrett Lisi is a theoretical physicist that devised a theory about the universe based on a complex mathematical pattern known as "E8." Lisi's theory, unlike most conventional physical models of the universe, would require only one dimension of time and three of space, unlike alternatives, such as String Theory, which postulate ten or more overlapping dimensions.

Fast Facts:

1. Born: 1968
2. Alma Mater: University of California, Los Angeles
3. Majors: Physics and mathematics
4. Received a PhD from University of California, San Diego
5. Avid surfer and has appeared in Surfer Magazine¹
6. E-mail: garrett.lisi@gmail.com
7. Published An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything in 2007
8. Appeared at the TED Conference in 2008
9. Lectures occasionally at the University of Hawaii

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"I'm a hedonist, but a contemplative one. I want the deep pleasures in life. I want to look into a girl's eyes and know she loves me. I want to understand what others have thought about life, and put the pieces together into a picture that makes sense. I want to paddle as hard as I can, drop into the pit, crank a bottom turn, and pull in under the lip as it throws out -- and hoot like a madman after the ride. I want to figure out the pattern at the heart of the universe. And I want to lay twenty consecutive, fully laid out turns down a groomed black diamond on a carving board. So that's what I do. I try to live my daydreams."² Garrett Lisi

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