By mattparker

Matt Parker is an Australian Maths teacher lost in London. He can`t believe he now gets paid to run exciting Maths and Physics support activities for schools. Matt`s bank-card PIN is a base ten undulating number. He probably shouldn’t have just told you that.

THE ELDERSBY MODEL: A SUCCESSFUL GRAND UNIFICATION THEORY

Last last Tuesday, a successful Grand Unification Theory (GUT) was accidentally found by a Mrs Eldersby of 29 Pennyfarthing Lane, London. Despite her having no formal training in any science discipline, and the fact that the solution was arrived upon by a series of highly unscientific events, the Eldersby Model – as it is being called – has attracted much media and academic attention. In what experts claim is the first ever Proof by Accident, Eldersby laid down the basic Mathematical principles of what appears to be a successful unified field theory while attempting to medicate her cat and bake…