Completely different thing. Garrett Lisi threw us some weird looking thing that when you turn it to the left and spin it 3 times and do a backflip looks like an electron... and if you turn it up and around and up town it looks like a quark. However, if you're gonna propose a structure like this, it better behave in a way that any way you look at it, it better look like something you might see in the universe. This thing predicted WAY too much shit to have physical relevance.
The thing in this post is a new way to calculate scattering amplitudes that has nothing to do with space, time, and isn't motivated by unitarity or locality.
http://www.ted.com/talks/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_every...