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Posted on December 21, 2011 by woit

A few short items: The Multiverse propaganda campaign continues this month, with a piece by Alan Lightman in Harpers entitled The Accidental Universe: Science’s Crisis of Faith. The content is pretty much the usual: string theory implies an untestable multiverse, … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Experimental HEP News, Multiverse Mania, Uncategorized | 37 Comments

Is the Multiverse Immoral?

Posted on January 29, 2011 by woit

[Warning, somewhat of a rant follows, and it’s not very original. You might want to skip this one…] In the last week or so, I’ve run into two critiques of the currently fashionable multiverse mania that take an unusual angle … Continue reading →

Posted in Multiverse Mania | 107 Comments

Various and Sundry

Posted on July 7, 2010 by woit

It seems that Jean-Pierre Serre now spends his time commenting on blogs. For those interested in particle physics history, there’s an interesting article by George Zweig here about his role in the discovery of quarks (which he called “aces”). There’s … Continue reading →

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Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman

Posted on June 9, 2010 by woit

The Science Channel is starting up yet another show on physics tonight, with Michio Kaku’s Sci-Fi Science and Into the Universe with Steven Hawking being joined by Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. The topics being covered by Freeman are … Continue reading →

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Various and Sundry

Posted on February 6, 2010 by woit

Now that the plan for running the LHC over the next few years is in place, one can start to get an idea of what new physics might emerge from it between now and 2013. For the question of the … Continue reading →

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A Black Future

Posted on December 5, 2009 by woit

Tom Siegfried, the editor of Science News, seems to have decided to join with Michio Kaku in the science-fiction as science business. He marks the startup of collisions at the LHC with A Black Future, an article about how “the … Continue reading →

Posted in This Week's Hype | 19 Comments

Sci-Fi Science

Posted on December 2, 2009 by woit

I watched the first two episodes of Michio Kaku’s Sci-Fi Science show last night (for a review, see here). The format of the show is that Kaku uses supposedly real physics to design on his laptop a revolutionary new device, … Continue reading →

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Short Items

Posted on November 27, 2009 by woit

To get an idea of what’s going on at CERN not at the LHC, but at the theoretical end of things, take a look at the presentations at the recent CERN-TH retreat. I was worried that this blog marked the … Continue reading →

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Mission Accomplished

Posted on February 18, 2009 by woit

A few years ago the asset value of string theory in the market-place of ideas started to take a tumble due to the increasingly obvious failure of the idea of unifying physics with a 10/11 dimensional string/M-theory. Since then a … Continue reading →

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Shouldn’t Something Be Done?

Posted on November 19, 2008 by woit

The sheer awfulness of last night’s History Channel program on physics is hard to exaggerate. Here’s some of what Clifford Johnson (one of the participants in the program) wrote on his blog while watching it: Oh, right… I remember “there … Continue reading →

Posted in Multiverse Mania | 39 Comments