What Einstein missed out on may be the discovery of a Nevada/Hawaii based snowboarder/surfer named Garrett Lisi. The universe kinda looks like a 60s needlepoint, but it is even testable which makes it all the more interesting.

Lisi's theory was inspired by mathematic's fashionably chic pattern called E8. E8 has been hanging around the halls of science since 1887, but has only been formally adopted in the last year or so.

Lisi says "E8 encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional and is itself is 248-dimensional. Lisi says "I think our universe is this beautiful shape."

So here it is, y'all -- the universe:



Here's the whole story.

On a far more trivial note, my fic's back up.