Surfer Unlocks the Key to the Universe

Score one for the transient Outdoorzies out there… or maybe score one for the physicists not-so-cool image… no matter. A guy who spends his Summers guiding backpacking trips and surfing, and his Winters ski-bumming has formed a theory on the universe that the scientific community is standing up and taking a look at. The Telegraph reported this week that Garrett Lisi has created a theory of the universe that could actually explain some things to physicists. Lisi has a doctorate but isn’t affiliated with any universities… currently. My guess is he’ll be picked up pretty quickly after this.

The E8 Theory… (don’t stare too long, it will suck you in… seriously)

From the Telegraph…
” Lisi’s inspiration lies in the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan.”

I’m not even going to pretent like I understand… so I’ll just step away and say… “Cool Brah.”

2 comments December 20th, 2007

Mountain Dew Glow Stick - Not

So Buster sent me this viral video that has been going around. It claims that you can turn a regular mountain dew into a glow stick by adding Hydrogen Peroxide and Baking Soda. I was shocked and amazed at first… mostly cause I hadn’t heard of it. But then I got a little skeptical. So, Emile and I decided to try it out this morning….

First, watch the video, if you haven’t seen it…

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So, the result is… ITS A HOAX

Yep, we got way too excited that this might work. We were like two kids running around getting the ingredients together. Then it didn’t work. We followed the directions exactly too. So, we did a simple Google search and found references of all the other dummies who tried this too. It doesn’t work. It isn’t real. We figure the guy in the video must have put glow stick liquid into the peroxide bottle to fool people.

Oh well. And the world could have saved all that money on glow sticks… Maybe it’s a video planted by the Mountain Dew marketing team to drum up some excitement.

6 comments December 15th, 2007