a preliminary forensic exploration of a scientific social technologies success - the garrett lisi...
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A Preliminary Forensic Exploration of a Scientific
Social Technologies Success - The Garrett Lisi Story
Patricia F. Anderson <[email protected]>
UM Health Sciences Libraries November 28, 2007© 2007 Regents of the
University of Michigan. All rights reserved.
Social Tech and Scholarly Publication
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Social Tech and Scholarly Publication
Publishing without the academic infrastructure?
Problematic
Who is Garrett Lisi?
His homepage at Sifter.com. Photo of him at Burning Man?
Lisi in the news
Who is Garrett Lisi?
Screenshot of his now famous article, posted to arXiv on November 6, 2007
Lisi: An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
What is arXiv?
The arXiv community
arXiv endorsement process
arXiv about Lisi
Citebase about Lisi
Spires about Lisi
Where does arXiv get their
stuff?
HEP Reaction Data Database
HEP Statistics Playground
HEP Citation Distribution
HEP Olympics
PDG
SLAC
Who is Garrett Lisi?
His blog at fq(x) community
What is fq(x)?
What is fq(x)?
Lisi posted his E8 theory in his blog at fq(x)
Lisi announced his arXiv article at fq(x)
Image of the E8 figure
Lisi in Wikipedia
Who is Garrett Lisi?
“Lisi received a PhD in physics from the University of California, San Diego in 1999[3], and is listed as a visitor at the University of Hawaii[4], but he does not currently hold a faculty position at any university, though he received support from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics[5] and the Foundational Questions Institute.[6] He has been described as a ﾒ surfer dude ﾓ who is primarily employed in activities outside of physics.[7] He splits his time living in Hawaii and Lake Tahoe, Nevada.”
Who is Garrett Lisi?
Among other things, poster child for the power of social technologies in science.
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