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Science Channel Inks Deal With Physicist Michio Kaku

Posted on January 8, 2009 by woit

Fresh from his leading role in the History Channel’s Parallel Universes (if you missed it on TV, the DVD is available here), according to a press release today, Michio Kaku will now be appearing regularly on Discovery’s Science Channel: The … Continue reading →

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Various Links, Latest From Kaku

Posted on September 10, 2006 by woit

Seems like everyone is getting a MySpace site, first Michio Kaku, now GLAST. There was a conference this past week in Madrid honoring Nigel Hitchin’s 60th birthday. The program is here. The latest issue of Nature has an article by … Continue reading →

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Living in a Post-truth World

Posted on November 6, 2024 by woit

I grew up in the 1960s and 70s, at a time when fundamental physics was making huge dramatic progress and Western democracies were changing in equally dramatic ways, mostly for the better. It truly did seem that the Age of … Continue reading →

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The Elegant Universe: 25th Anniversary Edition

Posted on August 20, 2024 by woit

Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe is being reissued today, in a 25th anniversary edition. It’s the same text as the original, with the addition of a 5 page preface and a 36 page epilogue. The initial excitement among some theorists … Continue reading →

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Fantasy, Faith and Physics

Posted on June 30, 2023 by woit

No blogging here the past few weeks, partly because I was away on vacation for a little while, but more because there hasn’t been anything I’ve seen worth writing about. Yesterday’s pulsar timing array and IceCube announcements unfortunately didn’t tell … Continue reading →

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Quantum Supremacy

Posted on May 3, 2023 by woit

We’re hearing this week from two very different parts of the string theory community that quantum supremacy (quantum computers doing better than classical computers) is the answer to the challenges the subject has faced. New Scientist has an article Quantum … Continue reading →

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string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard

Posted on April 27, 2023 by woit

I want to make up for linking to something featuring Michio Kaku yesterday by today linking to the exact opposite, an insightful explanation of the history of string theory, discussing the implications of how it was sold to the public. … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Hype

Posted on April 26, 2023 by woit

According to this article, string theory is going to be tested using quantum computers, by doing a lattice QCD calculation: The way string theory is tested involves ‘lattice quantum chromodynamics’: a calculation problem far beyond what digital computers can achieve. … Continue reading →

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Some News, Then More of the Same

Posted on September 11, 2022 by woit

Some News: I’ll be in England later in the month, in Oxford much of the week of the 26th-30th. That week is the week of the 2022 Clay Research Conference and Workshops. The evening of Tuesday the 27th I’ll be … Continue reading →

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This and Next Year’s Hype

Posted on September 5, 2022 by woit

I normally try and avoid getting into the vast topic of the hype problem in other subjects than string theory, but a couple things I’ve seen recently make it hard to resist. So, just this once… Quantum Computing Michio Kaku … Continue reading →

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