Witten Notes
For the benefit of Kea and other fine mathematicians who couldn't make the lecture, here are my 6 pages of notes from Ed Witten. NEXT: We'll see a more exciting gateway.
posted by L. Riofrio at 12:50 AM
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
About Me
- Name: L. Riofrio
Full-time scientist. Before graduating I learned that the speed of light is slowing down and originated the "GM=tc^3" theory, which explains the dark energy problem and most physicists still can't explain. More recent work seeks Black Holes in some unexpected places, even within Earth. I've been working at NASA in Houston on studies of the Moon, and have an insider's view of the Space program. Actress in film, television and stages from Honolulu to Houston. In spare time I fight off hostile aliens, explore a strange world and unusual forms of life.
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6 Comments:
Thanks a lot! Enjoy the rest of your East Coast trip.
cool!
Louise, thanks for posting about NY, Witten, Woit, etc.
If you are going to AGU in SF next week,
let me put in a plug for a presentation by a friend of mine at JPL, Ernesto Rodriguez, who is on the team making a presentation on Wednesday afternoon at 1425 at location MW 2022 in session H33I-04
The title is
Virtual Mission First Results Supporting the WATER HM Satellite Concept
and the authors are listed as:
*D Alsdorf, K Andreadis, D Lettenmaier, D Moller, E Rodriguez, P Bates, N Mognard, W Participants
If you get a chance to speak to Ernesto, please tell him that I said Hello and Happy 8th Day of Chanukah.
Tony Smith
I am glad that Kea and everyone are enjoying the posts.
For Tony: You have interesting frineds. I can't make any promises, but I will try to see them.
Hi Louise, it is very useful to see this information about what the leading string theorists are now up to. It doesn't look very exciting (no dramatic predictions about nature that can be tested), but maybe it is just very preliminary work and may eventually lead somewhere in the distant future.
Even so, I wish there was at least as much publicity about simple ideas which do seem more likely to connect to reality because they make checkable predictions, including your work and also Tony Smith's predictions.
For nige: I do appreciate your support and comments. The fact that barely 100 people showed up for a conference in a beautiful setting with free registration shows how little interest Witten's work attracts outside of a small circle. I've had bigger crowds than that.
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