Monthly Archives: March 2023

A Muon Collider?

Posted on March 30, 2023 by woit

The US particle physics community has been going through a multi-year process designed to lead up this fall to a 10 year strategic plan to be presented to the DOE and the NSF. In particular, this will generate a prioritized … Continue reading →

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Not Quite What Happened

Posted on March 23, 2023 by woit

Quanta has an article out today about the wormhole publicity stunt, which sticks to the story that by doing a simple SYK model calculation on a quantum computer instead of a classical computer, one is doing quantum gravity in the … Continue reading →

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Lost in the Landscape

Posted on March 3, 2023 by woit

A commenter in the previous posting pointed to an interview with Lenny Susskind that just appeared at the CERN Courier, under the title Lost in the Landscape. Some things I found noteworthy: He deals with the lack of any current … Continue reading →

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