the simplicity of 248 dimensions explains everything!

yeah right… and a double positive must be better!

http://telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencetopics/largehadroncollider/3314456/Surfer-dude-stuns-physicists-with-theory-of-everything.html

“E8 encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional and is itself is 248-dimensional”.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770

An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
Authors: A. Garrett Lisi

Phase I: add more dimensions

Phase II: [mumble mumble]

Phase III: explain everything!