Comments on: One Major Reason For String Theory

By: You Tube | Cosmic Variance

You Tube | Cosmic Variance — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:04:32 +0000

[...] [Update: I was hoping that I might find a home video of Strings 96’s perfomance of “The Maldacena”, by 400 string theorists in unison (to the tune of “The Macarena”, but that seems to be lost forever… see here, and here, for more on that, by the way.] -cvj [...]

By: Plato

Plato — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:02:09 +0000

I know I just broke the point on a “troll’s spelling,” but something interrupted the train of thought before I could correct.

It was a reactionary trigger finger moment to deal with it.

My apologies.

By: Plato

Plato — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:55:00 +0000

Strings and No_sense?

In defense of Peter Woit, and nt that he needs it. Froma layman perspectie it was necessary to have someone stand up and reject the basis,a nd if you beingthe sacradficial lamb for such a position, well, it’s what happens when you at as the a sounding board.

So like K.C. saids people watchthis converstain going on, and from that point of view, I watch and loked for the rejection of string theory and the basis for this approach. S inthis sense it was not a journalistic ability that was coming forward but the basis of such rejection and if such views were unsupported as to the model assumption

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:42:30 +0000

Ah…. you’ve commented on a post from the old days. Brings tears to my eyes. I was so young, innocent, and fresh to blogging back then….

-cvj

By: darwin

darwin — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:27:10 +0000

as i am alive i tell you i dont know much of what string theory is but i do believe there is something in the air atmosphere that i can see with my own eyes .i have told my doctor that every day these squigly lines sometimes singular sometimes connected before me in the air atmosphere or how ever you want to explain it but their there evey day day. what could this be?it seems to be a conglomerent of stringy like bacteria in the air.what do i see?

By: Do Phenomenologists Sing and Dance Better Than String Theorists? | Cosmic Variance

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:40:39 +0000

[...] You may recall my recollection in an earlier post about the dancing of the string theorist participants of the Strings 1998 meeting in Santa Barbara, and you may have listened to the singing of the youth of the field at Strings 2005. A good time was had by all in each case, I understand. [...]

By: TM

TM — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:45:13 +0000

Thanks, I’ll look forward to the post.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:43:33 +0000

It is far from impossible to get across the sense of it. Note that I cannot explain the motivation of others, but I can explain mine, and speculate as to the others’. I would leave out the word “likely” from what you said above, and replace it with “hoped”. I should probably do this in a proper post on the main page, but I’m going to sit back a while and not put up any long posts for a little bit, so please check back soonish for that.

Thanks for asking!

-cvj

By: TM

TM — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:34:06 +0000

Clifford – Could you at some point try the presumably impossible task of explaining from first principles to a scientifically informed but mathematically limited (yeah, I know it’s a contradiction) lay person why so many physicists think string theory is likely to be, in some sense, correct. I didn’t think Brian Greene really did this, and he’s about as lucid a science writer as I’ve encountered so maybe it’s impossible, but I’d love to see you try.