New TOE announced by Smolin, Spezile and *Garrett Lisi

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The forum discussion centers around the announcement of a new Theory of Everything (TOE) by physicists Lee Smolin, Stefano Speziale, and Garrett Lisi, as detailed in their paper titled “Unification of gravity, gauge interactions and Higgs bosons in the extended Plebanski formalism.” The paper is available on arXiv under the identifier 0908.3388. Participants express skepticism regarding the content, anticipating a lack of rigorous formulas and a reliance on conceptual explanations.

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New TOE announced by Smolin, Spezile and *Garrett Lisi"

I just spotted this on citation [9] on this article:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3388

[9] A. Garrett Lisi, L. Smolin and S. Speziale, “Unification of gravity, gauge interactions and
Higgs bosons in the extended Plebanski formalism,” to appear.

So, considering this article, what do you expect to appear? Marcus?
 
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TOE from Smolin?
Let me guess, no formulas, just handwaving? :)
 

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