Bob - I live in Tallahassee, Florida. The Dirac Science Library is on the other side of town, and they subscribe to many of El Naschie's favorite journals. I agree that modern research has become "big business" and too many capable researchers have sold out to the mainstream. It's "publish or die" and the mainstream controls most of the journals, which is why I published on Lulu after two years of rejections by journals who wouldn't say much more than that my paper "wasn't appropriate" for their journals. Some good friends of mine have had copies of my book since November 2007, but I haven't heard good or bad critiques or comments from any of them. They might have too much to lose from siding with an outsider like me. It's OK - I understand. I'm not a tenured Professor with hundreds of publications, but I do have a Doctorate in Particle Physics and a few publications. That should qualify me to discuss these topics, whether other researchers choose to agree with me or not.
Bob, A. Kasim, and Sonja - El Naschie and I both defy the mainstream, but we might be different flavors of non-conformity. However, the ties between E12, 5 x 137, and M4 plus E8 are amazing. El Naschie is working with a Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model of Particle Physics, whereas I have introduced new force quanta, new Hyperflavor/ Kaluza-Klein types of fundamental fermions, and new generations of leptoquark fermions. Although my fundamental representation might be E12, I also have singlet states and Supersymmetric partners. Adding up the degrees of freedom, I have at least 1,416 = 12 x 118 different elements in my theory. If we subtract the four 12-plets of singlet states from the 118 sets of 12-plets, and add the 12 dimensions back in, then we have 118 - 4 12 = 126, which looks similar to alpha bar at the electroweak scale. How's that for a little bit of El Naschie-like numerology?
You might all enjoy reading Chapters 3 and 4 of my book "New Approaches Towards A Grand Unified Theory" on Lulu.com. I have extended the free preview to include these Chapters about my efforts to fit the fundamental coupling constants (including the fine structure constant) with Quantum Statistical Grand Unified Theory (a thermodynamic GUT/ TOE of the low-energy coupling constants).
Prof. M.S. El Naschie - Your ideas are interesting, but moderately difficult to find. Have you considered organizing your best ideas into one book? Lulu.com makes self-publishing easy and affordable, and non-conformists are welcome. I would buy your book if it was reasonably priced!
Garrett - Sorry for hijacking your blog site... What are you up to? I haven't heard from you in a while.
Sincerely, Ray Munroe