Observations: Garrett Lisi Responds to Criticism of his Proposed Unified Theory of Physics

Observations: Garrett Lisi Responds to Criticism of his Proposed Unified Theory of Physics:  Distler's colleagues also wrote a letter to the editor of Scientific American decrying the lack of parity violation. This fact would seem very damning for E8 Theory, but it is simply not true. The structure of gravity and the Standard Model along with one generation of fermions (including their parity-violating interactions) does fit in E8, as I described explicitly in a recent paper. In their misleading argument, Distler and Garibaldi make unnecessary assumptions about how the embedding needs to happen, and then prove it can't happen that way -- a "straw man" argument.