Comments on: Why Isn’t This a Movie Yet? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:00:03 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Academic Career Links http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-69630 Academic Career Links Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:33:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/#comment-69630 The PCM book indeed contains plenty of interesting stuff. To get a first impression before getting it, one can first look at the <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html" rel="nofollow">free samples</a> from the publisher's web site. The PCM book indeed contains plenty of interesting stuff. To get a first impression before getting it, one can first look at the free samples from the publisher’s web site.

]]> By: Sili http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-64774 Sili Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:43:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/#comment-64774 Herr Professor Doktor Stacey, Please do give me a call. Herr Professor Doktor Stacey,

Please do give me a call.

]]> By: Tom Leinster http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-64614 Tom Leinster Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:32:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/#comment-64614 I've got the Princeton Companion. It's fantastic. The quality of exposition is in general very high, and it's extremely browsable. You learn mathematics just by owning it. It's also quite cheap for what it is: on amazon, 78 euros, 71 US dollars, or 35 pounds for over 1000 large pages. I've paid the same for mathematics books less than half the size. I’ve got the Princeton Companion. It’s fantastic. The quality of exposition is in general very high, and it’s extremely browsable. You learn mathematics just by owning it.

It’s also quite cheap for what it is: on amazon, 78 euros, 71 US dollars, or 35 pounds for over 1000 large pages. I’ve paid the same for mathematics books less than half the size.

]]> By: not_there http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-64591 not_there Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:35:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/#comment-64591 > p.s. You haven’t really lived until you’ve seen Cliff Taubes do his little dance to illustrate the concept of “quantum fluctuations.” http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=cliff+taubes+quantum+fluctuations&aq=f gives No videos found for “cliff taubes quantum fluctuations” What gives? > p.s. You haven’t really lived until you’ve seen Cliff Taubes do his little dance to illustrate the concept of “quantum fluctuations.”

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=cliff+taubes+quantum+fluctuations&aq=f

gives

No videos found for “cliff taubes quantum fluctuations”

What gives?

]]> By: Nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-64524 Nick Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:00:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/#comment-64524 Supposing that is true... what do you do then?!?!! I need movie spoilers! -NM Supposing that is true…

what do you do then?!?!!

I need movie spoilers!

-NM

]]> By: Christopher Frost http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-64483 Christopher Frost Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:18:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/#comment-64483 This website is taking pitches for movie ideas, although it costs 10 bucks (but includes a year of subscription): http://details.pitchnehst.com/pitches/how Apparently if they like your plot, theyll film it. That said i'd like to suggest I may already be living such a movie and would appreciate some minor credit, as I'm a poor junior college student who feels like he may never escape from such a plot. I also have some ideas about theoretical physics that I have not seen discussed and which explain the wave/particle duality of light, but havnt managed to single-handedly rewrite phsyics or even figured out how to finance a trip through the school systems to put me in position to have my voice heard. Also, Im seriously tired of the situations keeping me in this position, irritated at the priveleged and those who dont even try, and getting lazier by the minute. This website is taking pitches for movie ideas, although it costs 10 bucks (but includes a year of subscription):
http://details.pitchnehst.com/pitches/how
Apparently if they like your plot, theyll film it.

That said i’d like to suggest I may already be living such a movie and would appreciate some minor credit, as I’m a poor junior college student who feels like he may never escape from such a plot. I also have some ideas about theoretical physics that I have not seen discussed and which explain the wave/particle duality of light, but havnt managed to single-handedly rewrite phsyics or even figured out how to finance a trip through the school systems to put me in position to have my voice heard. Also, Im seriously tired of the situations keeping me in this position, irritated at the priveleged and those who dont even try, and getting lazier by the minute.

]]> By: Blake Stacey http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-64473 Blake Stacey Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:42:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/#comment-64473 Ah, money. That thing which can be exchanged for books. (And, sometimes, food.) I wonder if I could sell my old copy of the <i>Feynman Lectures</i> for a little cash — I got the new, four-volume "definitive edition" as a Christmas gift — and then turn that cash into book matter again. . . Ah, money. That thing which can be exchanged for books. (And, sometimes, food.) I wonder if I could sell my old copy of the Feynman Lectures for a little cash — I got the new, four-volume “definitive edition” as a Christmas gift — and then turn that cash into book matter again. . .

]]> By: Luca http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-64471 Luca Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:25:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/#comment-64471 Just wondering. What was Microsoft Word used by you for? Just wondering. What was Microsoft Word used by you for?

]]> By: Sumar Ongi http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-64469 Sumar Ongi Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:11:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/#comment-64469 Well, an advanced book on math from Princeton and recommended by working physicists is something worth checking out. Just looking at the table of contents sure looks interesting, but... I find that the "mathematical concepts" and the "problems and theorems" are ordered alphabetically! And the biographies are not... they are ordered chronologically by year of birth! I'm not sure what you mean by "readable". Anyways, if the biographies were in a separate second volume, and I could buy only the first one then, maybe... Well, an advanced book on math from Princeton and recommended by working physicists is something worth checking out. Just looking at the table of contents sure looks interesting, but… I find that the “mathematical concepts” and the “problems and theorems” are ordered alphabetically!
And the biographies are not… they are ordered chronologically by year of birth! I’m not sure what you mean by “readable”. Anyways, if the biographies were in a separate second volume, and I could buy only the first one then, maybe…

]]> By: ppnl http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-64465 ppnl Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:42:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/25/why-isnt-this-a-movie-yet/#comment-64465 71 dollars!?! You bastard! 71 dollars!?! You bastard!

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