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Yearly Archives: 2005
LHC Startup Scenarios
Everyone in the particle physics community is avidly awaiting the startup of the LHC accelerator at CERN, scheduled for 2007. A new preprint by Gianotti and Mangano entitled LHC physics: the first one–two year(s) gives some idea of what to … Continue reading
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Taking a Break
This week I’m quite busy so I’m taking a break from landscape-bashing. Instead I’ll just quote someone else; it’s up to you to guess who. “Suddenly it’s not too important whether a theory teaches us something new about the real … Continue reading
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Conferences Not To Go To
This week in Santa Fe there’s the International Conference on Science and Consciousness, where Michio Kaku will be giving a keynote address. He’ll explain how “Many physicists today believe in the multiverse, i.e. Genesis is constantly taking place in a … Continue reading
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Dine on the Landscape
Michael Dine from Santa Cruz was here at Columbia this afternoon to give a talk on “Branches of the Landscape”. His talk more or less corresponded to his recent paper with the same title. He’s following the philosophy pioneered by … Continue reading
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New Quantum Field Theory Textbook
I recently ran across a very good new quantum field theory textbook in the bookstore. It’s called Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Perspective and is by my ex-Columbia colleague V. Parameswaran Nair, who is now at City College nearby. The … Continue reading
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This Evening’s Finds in Theoretical Physics
It’s late tonight and I have to prepare a class for tomorrow, so I don’t have time now to figure out what is going on here. But if you want to see something really strange, take a look at Susskind’s … Continue reading
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Not a Joke
A week or so ago I wrote up as an April Fool’s joke a posting claiming that the Stanford theoretical physics group was joining a new Templeton foundation devoted to religion and science. At the time I had no idea … Continue reading
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High Energy Physics: Exit America?
Science magazine has an article this week entitled High Energy Physics: Exit America?. It describes the US HEP budget situation, and gives details of the probable cancellation of the BTeV experiment. Evidently neither Michael Witherell, the Fermilab director, nor any … Continue reading
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Witten in Canada
Edward Witten is in Canada this week, giving a series of lectures at the Fields Institute, the mathematics institute at the University of Toronto. He’s also giving a public lecture at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. The first of his … Continue reading
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New Institute at Stanford
Stanford University will officially announce later today the founding of a new research institute, with major funding from the John Templeton Foundation. Many of the faculty and research staff of the new institute will come from the present Institute for … Continue reading
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