"How cool is that?"

"How cool is that?" says the surfer-man who may have revealed that 'theory of everything' which has been plaguing the science scene since at least the millennium. An eight-dimensional mathematical pattern (image below), discovered in the late 19th century, was recently, finally understood by modern physicists and mathematicians this year. An unemployed scientist seems to have formulated a high-stakes theory of what it's all about this week. And he may be right. We will have to wait, however, until the LHC (Large Hadron Colider) is complete and up and running in 2008, to see whether his idea actually predicts the types of new particles we should find.
Here's a little mainstream ditty on the event: The Telegraph.