Monthly Archives: November 2011

Extortion

Posted on November 6, 2011 by woit

An explanation of something that readers of this and other related blogs may have run into recently: An ex-boyfriend of a close personal friend of mine has been posting here and elsewhere repulsive and delusional material about the two of … Continue reading →

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Interview With Sidney Coleman

Posted on November 4, 2011 by woit

Via Steve Hsu, at the AIP Center for History of Physics, there’s a transcript of an interview with Sidney Coleman from 1977. It’s provocative and amusing, like the man himself, as well as informative history. Go and read the whole … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Hype

Posted on November 3, 2011 by woit

Now that the LHC has turned out to be dud, producing no black holes or extra dimensions, the latest news is that physicists are planning a new machine, “to follow in the footsteps of the Large Hadron Collider”. This one … Continue reading →

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Solvay Update

Posted on November 3, 2011 by woit

With the Solvay Centenary conference now finished for over a week, some information has been posted about it on the Solvay Institute web-site, where you can see a group picture of the attendees on the main page. Lisa Randall’s comment … Continue reading →

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Recollections of Rudolf Haag

Posted on November 3, 2011 by woit

Thomas Love pointed me to a wonderful article from last year by Rudolf Haag. It’s more or less a short memoir of his scientific career, entitled Some people and some problems met in half a century of commitment to mathematical … Continue reading →

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