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By: News From The Front, II | Cosmic Variance

News From The Front, II | Cosmic Variance — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:45:29 +0000

[...] It is hard to start without setting the scene with motivating remarks, so what I am going to do is steal some of my own words from the introduction to the paper I’m writing with my young collaborators James Carlisle (graduating soon with a Ph.D. from Durham, UK) and Jeff Pennington (an undergradaute at USC), and sprinkle in some comments for those who don’t work in this area. Then I’ll do a part III, and maybe even a part IV, to which the mysterious scribblings on the board will be connected. It is safe to say that, at this point in time, we do not understand string (or M-) theory as well as we would like. While we have understood and appreciated that there is a rich bounty of physical phenomena contained in the theory, this has mostly been uncovered in perturbation theory, occasionally sweetened by a glimpse into the non–perturbative realm afforded by special sectors of the theory such as soliton solutions (including branes of various sorts) or various topological reductions. [...]

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:20:25 +0000

Sure janet, I do it all the time….

-cvj

Yes, comment was deliberately left ambiguous.

By: janet

janet — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:53:33 +0000

Is it topologically provable that you can remove your bra without taking off your shirt?

By: Plato

Plato — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:53:42 +0000

Here's a update version of article, "Trademarks of the Geometer," near completion.

By: Torbjorn Larsson

Torbjorn Larsson — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:57:52 +0000

The topology joke probably stems from that you can, if I remember correctly, remove your shirt from under your jacket, which is provable by topology. This fact is illustrated by a rather funny contortionist series of photos.

CIP, I would also wish for a palette chooser for genius (or IQ) coupled to the appropriate palettes. That would help immensely!:-)

By: Plato

Plato — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:55:34 +0000

I figured it out Clifford, and by providing such a nice environment for ideas to spring forth, we have certainly seen “the humourous” as well as indicators, as to how different portions of society might see this blackboard.

So to be fair, I though I would share link for extra thinking that I had incurred by way of “conversation” and recognition of your article.

May I use your picture( of course remembering your photographic talents) and directly link it back to this blog entry?

Thanks,

By: CapitalistImperialistPig

CapitalistImperialistPig — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 23:54:49 +0000

Looks to me like Clifford has a possibly unhealthy fascination with bicycle shorts. Your design for a new bicycle saddle may save thousands from sexual disfunction though.

Has anyone come up with a Maple program that has a palette of clickable surfaces of appropriate genus coupled to the appropriate calculational factors?

By: Doug K

Doug K — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 22:51:56 +0000

it reminded me of my first topology lecturer’s joke: topology is the study of how to take your underpants off without first taking off your pants. (You could tell it was a joke by the way his beard bristled up – there was a smile in there somewhere..)

By: Qubit

Qubit — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 22:33:33 +0000

Looks like… The parts, of a Super Nova, once you’ve put them all together, it’ll come at you so fast. You will have to slap a sticker on it’s butt, that says; “You’ve been Nova taken”.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:54:18 +0000

john sadowski…wow! Thanks for the link.

-cvj