Comments on: The String Kings http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:02:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Not Even Wrong » Blog Archive » String Kings - The Director’s Cut http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/comment-page-1/#comment-23130 Not Even Wrong » Blog Archive » String Kings - The Director’s Cut Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:36:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/#comment-23130 [...] I just learned from Cosmic Variance that a review of the Director’s Cut version of String Kings is now out. It seems that the Director’s Cut version includes more scenes featuring a certain “man on the edge” in New York City… [...] [...] I just learned from Cosmic Variance that a review of the Director’s Cut version of String Kings is now out. It seems that the Director’s Cut version includes more scenes featuring a certain “man on the edge” in New York City… [...]

]]> By: Nuggets | Cosmic Variance http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/comment-page-1/#comment-23129 Nuggets | Cosmic Variance Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:19:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/#comment-23129 [...] Remember the String Kings? Then you’ll love the Director’s Cut, brought to you by Steven Miller. [...] [...] Remember the String Kings? Then you’ll love the Director’s Cut, brought to you by Steven Miller. [...]

]]> By: Chris Oakley http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/comment-page-1/#comment-23128 Chris Oakley Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:52:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/#comment-23128 Jimbo, I don't think that, as far as Lubos is concerned, there is any such thing as bad publicity. On the subject of which, if a String version of "Yellow Submarine" gets made then I would not mind a cameo as a Blue Meanie. Film producers please take note. Jimbo,

I don’t think that, as far as Lubos is concerned, there is any such thing as bad publicity.

On the subject of which, if a String version of “Yellow Submarine” gets made then I would not mind a cameo as a Blue Meanie. Film producers please take note.

]]> By: Jimbo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/comment-page-1/#comment-23127 Jimbo Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:24:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/#comment-23127 Oakley's rundown of StringKings 2 had me splitting a gut to the point of seeing stars !!! Altho somehow, I don't think Lubos finds any of this humorous.... Oakley’s rundown of StringKings 2 had me splitting a gut to the point of seeing stars !!! Altho somehow, I don’t think Lubos finds any of this humorous….

]]> By: Elliot http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/comment-page-1/#comment-23126 Elliot Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:25:01 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/#comment-23126 Chris, with all due respect it is not worth a seperate post. Elliot Chris,

with all due respect it is not worth a seperate post.

Elliot

]]> By: Chris W. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/comment-page-1/#comment-23125 Chris W. Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:31:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/#comment-23125 Off topic, but maybe worth a separate post: Gregg Easterbrook has gone off in his typically muddled way about some recent supernova observations that allegedly undermine the use of supernovas as standard candles in observational cosmology. See this <a href="http://www.radioopensource.org/the-collapse-of-dark-energy/" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> from NPR's <em>Radio Open Source</em>. Off topic, but maybe worth a separate post: Gregg Easterbrook has gone off in his typically muddled way about some recent supernova observations that allegedly undermine the use of supernovas as standard candles in observational cosmology. See this blog post from NPR’s Radio Open Source.

]]> By: CapitalistImperialistPig http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/comment-page-1/#comment-23124 CapitalistImperialistPig Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:16:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/#comment-23124 Steve (or Stevem) didn't care for the Clifford Johnson/Samuel L. Jackson dialogue, but I personally found the Johnson/Jackson rant about "M*****f****** loops on a brane..." to be classic. Another favorite scene for me was the flashback where a then sevenish Lubosh takes down a much older Communist Youth League punk with a couple of well-chosen matrix multiplications and a differentiation under the integral sign. It didn't make it into the theatrical cut of course, but I hope that the scene with Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan as ditzy coeds in Joe Polchinski's class unable to come up with concrete examples of trowser diagrams might be restored in the DVD. Steve (or Stevem) didn’t care for the Clifford Johnson/Samuel L. Jackson dialogue, but I personally found the Johnson/Jackson rant about “M*****f****** loops on a brane…” to be classic.

Another favorite scene for me was the flashback where a then sevenish Lubosh takes down a much older Communist Youth League punk with a couple of well-chosen matrix multiplications and a differentiation under the integral sign.

It didn’t make it into the theatrical cut of course, but I hope that the scene with Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan as ditzy coeds in Joe Polchinski’s class unable to come up with concrete examples of trowser diagrams might be restored in the DVD.

]]> By: Plato http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/comment-page-1/#comment-23123 Plato Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:15:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/#comment-23123 #30 must have touched some supersymmetrical existence and information was downloaded through the anomalistic features of the super fluid?:) It was if he stood in the middle of "no where," between the ephemeral and the realistic, waiting for this time to come. ....and then, through "symmetry breaking" dropped from the 22nd century into his compacted brain of reference. The idea was born. :) #30 must have touched some supersymmetrical existence and information was downloaded through the anomalistic features of the super fluid?:)

It was if he stood in the middle of “no where,” between the ephemeral and the realistic, waiting for this time to come.

….and then, through “symmetry breaking” dropped from the 22nd century into his compacted brain of reference. The idea was born. :)

]]> By: Alejandro Rivero http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/comment-page-1/#comment-23122 Alejandro Rivero Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:07:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/#comment-23122 I read Woit telling that the "fine tunning" argument of supersymmetry was devised by Witten in 1981 in Sicily. I read Woit telling that the “fine tunning” argument of supersymmetry was devised by Witten in 1981 in Sicily.

]]> By: Uncle Enzo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/comment-page-1/#comment-23121 Uncle Enzo Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:44:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/12/the-string-kings/#comment-23121 Sean must have already been tenured. Sean must have already been tenured.

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