Peter Woit, 2006, Not Even Wrong, The failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law See also Woit’s blog http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ After I have read The Elegant Universe by Brian Green, I thought that there must be people not that enthusiastic about the superstring theory. I should confess that the Brian Green’s [...]
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July 25, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · 1 Comment
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Social Tagging: Not Even Wrong • Theory of Everything
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Social Tagging: Not Even Wrong • Theory of Everything
July 24, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Not Even Wrong
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Social Tagging: Not Even Wrong
Not Even Wrong, The failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law Peter Woit in his book has mentioned John Hagelin. I have found in Internet Hagelin’s picture mentioned in the book: The Self-Referral, Self-Interacting Dynamic Structure of the Unified Field of All the Laws of Nature — The Holistic Basis [...]
July 24, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: mathematics • Not Even Wrong
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Social Tagging: mathematics • Not Even Wrong
One more citation from Not Even Wrong, The failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law(Chapter On Beauty and Difficulty, p. 201) Mathematicians don’t make things any easier, since readable expository material about much of modern mathematics is sorely lacking. The culture of mathematics values highly precision, rigor, and abstraction, not the [...]
July 22, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Not Even Wrong
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Social Tagging: Not Even Wrong
Another interesting citation from Not Even Wrong, The failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law(chapter String Theory, p. 143): The S-matrix program continued to be pursued by Chew and others into the 1970s. Just as the political left in Berkley fell apart, with many turning to Eastern and New Age [...]
July 18, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: computing • Stephen Wolfram
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Social Tagging: computing • Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram Some Modern Perspectives on the Quest for Ultimate Knowledge http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/ultimateknowledge/ A good overview about computational irreducibility and how it could affect our quest for ultimate knowledge. Just one example from the paper. Let us imagine that the Universe is governed by just a few simple rules and they are completely determenistic. Yet, as they represent [...]
July 11, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Not Even Wrong
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Social Tagging: Not Even Wrong
Not Even Wrong, The failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law In Chapter Particle Physics at the Turn of Millennium, Peter Woit cited Leonard Susskind: They want to believe the universe is an elegant universe – and it’s not so elegant. It’s different over here, it’s that over here. It’s [...]
July 11, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: Not Even Wrong • Quantum Mechanics
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Social Tagging: Not Even Wrong • Quantum Mechanics
Not Even Wrong, The failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law After the Elegant Universe I have started Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit to see what opponents of the superstring theory say. In the Preface, there is a nice statement about quantum mechanics, p. xvi Part of the appeal [...]
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