Weekend Read

There's this surfer dude who lives in a van and also snowboards and mountain bikes and he's, like, also working on a unified theory. You know, that thing Einstein didn't finish.

"I've tried to make the rest of my life good enough that even if the physics theories don't work out," he says, "it wasn't a waste of time."

His name is Garrett Lisi and he's really interesting. I read all seven pages and didn't get bored. I even read the definitions. If he does this, I may have to resign from the Church of String Theory and sign up with E8.