When things just line up

We had quite a stunning view from the balcony when we woke up - mist covering the cricket ground, hovering around the trees on into the distance past the top of Old Joe at the University that we could just peeking out in the distance.

Then it was off to Cannon Hill Park in Moseley for an early walk to capture the remnants of the mists as they caught the low morning sun. Anyway, I took a few images, including the one above.

Later I picked up a New Scientist.

In it was an amazing image that looks a little like this one from a paper published by A. Garrett Lisi entitled “An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything”.

And I’ve since found these two in the paper itself:

Is this the Theory of Everything that scientists have been striving for for so long?

It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up when I read about it. Fantastically simple, beautiful and aesthetically pleasing to boot.

So I just got home, and I downloaded a copy of the paper, and I get another strange ‘things lining up’ moment.

The great thing is - it’s testable - and seeing as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will be switched on next year, we don’t have too long to find wait…