Owen -
Haven't read . . . but in an effort to understand "why string (or something?)
theory?" I've been doing some background reading on "what the issues are" . . .
(e.g., what actually makes up the Standard Model, that needs "updating").
Recent lunch reading for me has been this article (f
Hi Eric,
There is a technology that can stitch enormous image files (out of Carnegie
-Mellon )
Gigapan if I recall. Fast scanning could probably count individuals if the
photos are
Set up properly. I recall they scanned and stitched a huge audience for
Obama's inauguration ceremony.
It may
Sorry for the spam, but I found that "the other anti-string" book's author (Not
Even Wrong, Peter Woit) has a positive review of the book:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=3165
I believe this, in part, is due to the need for sophisticated geometric
mathematics in non-string th
This does look interesting, especially after reading Smolin's book The Trouble
with Physics.
I bet I like them both, even though many (wrongly) consider Smolin's book
anti-string. Its more pro-physics (at least as practiced through the 1970s).
Did you read it (Yau, not Smolin)? Yau won the Fi
I'll be interested to see the final media estimates of the rally in DC today.
CBS estimated that Glenn Beck had 87,000. I have photographs montages from
today that I estimate to have more than that, and I'm sure I couldn't see half
the crowd.
Given the lack of aerial photographs, and the continuou
I am probably going to stick with the evil thieves at United Health Care.
(Vanilla Medicare plus a drug plan.) But my thinking is strange: I don't
know the value of any of these plans, but I do know the value of my own time
and I am damned if I am going to spend it playing their stupid shadow-wo
The Medicare enrollment period is approaching and I wanted to ask some old
farts about how they are handling medical insurance. Young farts can delete!
Two years ago I got dis-enrolled from Medicare indirectly because due to
travel, I missed a Medigap payment, thus rendering Medicare less useful
I have not seen this mentioned on the list yet, but some on this list
might find it interesting:
The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the
Universe's Hidden Dimensions, by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis
Yau has been at the center of string theory development.
Joe S
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