Saw this in the Physics Department at National Central University in Jung-Li, Taiwan. A very right-thinking place indeed, to have the detail of a nice kettle on the door of the little kitchen down the hall.
I went there (on Wednesday 4th January, during my Walkabout) to give a lecture (“Non-critical Strings and Matrix Models”) with more background material on the matters in the seminar I presented a week and a half before in Taipei (the one before I dashed for the bus to Tainan…). It was at the invitation of Chiang-Mei Chen. There I also met Otto Kong Cho-Wing. They are both high energy physicists (Chiang-Mei is in General Relativty, while Otto Kong is a particle phenomenologist), and I enjoyed my short visit. (Relativists among you will know the name Nester. Well, the man himself, James Nester, is also part of the department there, although he was away at the time I visited.) Chiang-Mei and Otto Kong were excellent hosts, and particularly gracious (and visibly happy to relocate) when, after we sat down to lunch (and saw the menu) at a Western-style restaurant they clearly thought I would prefer, I quietly suggested that I had been looking forward to trying (hint! hint!) the Chinese-style one that they had briefly mentioned earlier. We left and went to the otherone, telling me that they preferred the Chinese-style one too. It was probably rude for me to have said anything, I know, but everyone got a much better meal out of it.
-cvj
February 24th, 2006 at 5:35 am
Hello
Feynman too,in Japan ,negotiated special native arrangements for himself. (mentioned in “Surely You’re Joking”) .You are on right path !
February 24th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
The fundamental theoretical requirement of positive total energy is being used as an effective test of alternate theories of gravity.
Quote was pulled from James Nester site you linked.
I tried to put myself into the frames of mind that could possibly be, and wonder.
Your “alternative” and perspective in D brane scenario analysis was one of the options? If so, how so? Is this an acceptance of Veneziano question moving right along into, what came before the universe, as is, while recognizing the value of those other options as equatible focalizations?
I had to know why Woit kept you apart from those other indexed stringers?:)
Question/understanding is vague for sure, but for what ever morsel you have for the layman mind?
May 30th, 2006 at 7:09 am
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May 30th, 2006 at 7:26 am
That’s to bad.