Apropos of nothing, I was recently reflecting that the most obvious implication Zeno’s paradox is that the universe is continuous, and impervious to slicing into neat fractions, like halves, down at the most fundamental level. These millennia later, we are still looking for the single Theory Of Everything that explains all physical phenomenon. Then I came across this at Kottke today:

Garrett Lisi’s Theory of Everything: “

You may remember reading the New Yorker article on Garrett Lisi, a surfer, physicist, and snowboarder who came out of nowhere in 2007 to present a plausible Theory of Everything, ‘a unifying idea that aims to incorporate all the universe’s forces in a single mathematical framework’. I do but I missed this visualization of Lisi’s theory posted by New Scientist in late 2007.

My intuition is that if we ever arrive at a TOE for the physical realm, part of the model will have to demand a strictly continuous space/time/matter/energy fabric. This arises from a felt belief that all is one. I could probably expand on the “all is one” phrase and fill an entire book yet not add much clarity to that simple phrase.

(Via Kottke.)