This is quite an astonishing story. Brilliance always seems to come out of the most unlikely places. I once knew a guy who had absolutely no knowledge of sub-atomic particles, yet he fully fleshed out a description of a quark in a Freshman physics class.
Needless to say, our professor was dumbfounded (this before the internet, where finding crap is easy).
At the very least, my friend knew how to look stuff up in the library, which in itself exhibits some sort of intelligence 
He claims he didn’t. He was just postulating.
Anyway, that is nothing near this. This “surfer dude” may have found the unifying theory for the entire physical universe.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Lisi’s breakthrough came when he noticed that some of the equations describing E8’s structure matched his own. “My brain exploded with the implications and the beauty of the thing,” he tells New Scientist. “I thought: ‘Holy crap, that’s it!’”
But it’s quite a story nevertheless.
I like that he might just say “dude” after every hypothesis.
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything – Telegraph
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