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 == Separating person from model == 

 Reading over the article, and the recent dispute here, whether an inconsistency was ""demonstrated"" or ""claimed"", I wonder whether it's a good idea to go into any detail of the physics model on a personal page. I suggest to remove all detail from the model from this page, and merge content into the page of the model itself (if that's even needed, on first view all the information is already duplicated there). 

 As for notability, I feel that if a reader is engaged in a surfing, snowboarding, or burning man community, you might find it interesting that one of his/her peers has published a physics model that suggests to unify the forces. If you're in the physics community, you might find it interesting that an independent researcher finances his works in an unusual way. Since there is independent public mention of Garrett Lisi in at least two fields of general interest, which are typically not related, I find this notable for Wikipedia. 

 One minor thing, I suggest to remove the category ""Cosmologist"" unless this can be sourced. 

 Here's what I would suggest, writing it in a way that could satisfy both focus groups (physicists and surfers/snowboarders): 

 (leave the infobox as-is) 

 :Antony Garrett Lisi (born 1968; uses name Garrett by preferenceA. (Garrett Lisi's home page)), is an independent theoretical physicist, who finances his works in part through surfing and snowboarding activities. 

 :Born in Los Angeles, and raised in San Diego, California,""San Diego native"" Accessed 2007-12-03 Lisi graduated the Cate School (south of Santa Barbara, California) in 1986, received his B.S. with highest honors in physics and mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991, and received a Ph.D in physics from the University of California, San Diego in 1999. While not holding a university faculty position, he is listed as a visitor at the University of Hawaii, and receives support from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physicshttp://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/11/16/science-theory-everything.html and the Foundational Questions Institute.http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/dn12891-is-mathematical-pattern-the-theory-of-everything.html 

 :On November 6, 2007 he posted a paperAn Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything to the popular ""arXiv"" scientific preprint server, proposing to answer one of the fundamental unsolved problems in physics: Connecting quantum physics and gravitation, to form a unified field theory that models all fundamental interactions that physicists have observed in nature (main article: An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything). 

 :Featured in Surfer magazine,Surfer magazine interview accessed 2007-12-06. he has been described as a “surfer dude” who is primarily employed in activities outside of physics.  The San Diego Union Tribune's sports section notes that ""... Lisi has been painted by some with the stereotypical 'surfer dude' brush. Inside the scientific community, however, Lisi says he's had no such problems.""  He splits his time living in Maui, where he surfs and windsurfs, and Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he practices alpine snowboarding. http://www.fqxi.org/community/data/articles/lisi_garrett.pdf 

 :According to Lisi, ""Surfing acts as a great 'reset' button for whatever I'm worried about in the rest of my life. [...] If I'm struggling with a difficult physics question, focusing on approaches that aren't going anywhere, surfing allows me to get away from the problem [...]"". About the initial reception of his model, he comments: ""OK, the hype (and my inbox) has