Surfer Dude Susses Reality

Two brain-warping stories from the World o’ Science. (Try to hear a theremin playing for the rest of this post.)

First, folks at the British Interplanetary Society are spending the weekend talking seriously about warp drive, based on the theories of Miguel Alcubierre.

Second, in a story with a headline that ought to have come from the Onion, “Surfer Dude Stuns Physicists with Theory of Everything.” The stunning thing is that Lee Smolin is taking it seriously. “It is one of the most compelling unification models I’ve seen in many, many years,” he says.