Marcus du Sautoy/Guardian: Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems

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Marcus du Sautoy/Guardian: Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems

Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems
A physicist has formulated a mathematical theory that purports to explain why the universe works the way it does – and it feels like 'the answer'
Marcus du Sautoy
guardian.co.uk, 23 May 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/23/eric-weinstein-answer-physics-problems

Two years ago, a mathematician and physicist whom I've known for more than 20 years arranged to meet me in a bar in New York. What he was about to show me, he explained, were ideas that he'd been working on for the past two decades. As he took me through the equations he had been formulating I began to see emerging before my eyes potential answers for many of the major problems in physics. It was an extremely exciting, daring proposal, but also mathematically so natural that one could not but feel that it smelled right. ...