Monthly Archives: September 2024

Richard S. Hamilton 1943-2024

Posted on September 29, 2024 by woit

I heard this morning that Richard Hamilton passed away yesterday early this morning. He was a renowned figure in geometric analysis, and a faculty member here at Columbia since 1998. In terms of mortality, the last year or two at … Continue reading →

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Is Spacetime Unraveling?

Posted on September 26, 2024 by woit

Quanta magazine has just put out an impressive package of material under the title The Unraveling of Space-Time. Much of it is promoting the “Spacetime is doomed” point of view that influential theorists have been pushing for decades now. A … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Hype

Posted on September 16, 2024 by woit

Today’s Washington Post has an opinion piece from Brian Greene, running under the demonstrably false title Decades later, string theory continues its march toward Einstein’s dream. In the piece, the argument of string theory critics is given as: Critics argue … Continue reading →

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Podcast About String Theory, Other Items

Posted on September 8, 2024 by woit

A few weeks ago I recorded a podcast with Robinson Erhardt, which has now appeared as String Theory and the Crisis in Physics. We mainly talk about the current situation of string theory in physics and the history of how … Continue reading →

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Podcast on Unification

Posted on September 2, 2024 by woit

I recently did another podcast with Curt Jaimungal, on the topic of unification, which is now available here. As part of this I prepared some slides, which are available here. The main goal of the slides is to explain the … Continue reading →

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