…aining how questions like the distinction between P and NP remain a major open problem in mathematics and computer science. Apparently, he considers the standard of “discovery” in physics to be a notch lower. Hopefully I’ll see some of you at one of the remaining conferences this summer! Soul Physics is authored by Bryan W. Roberts. Thanks for subscribing. Want more Soul Physics? Try the Soul Physics Tweet….
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Read more…ts. Bibdesk. You can download this beautiful little app for free from Sourceforge. If you copy a bibtex citation record to the clipboard, you can add it automatically to Bibdesk by typing Command-Option-L. Textmate Drop-down Menu. Make sure you’ve installed Textmate (trial available from Macromates) and Bidesk. To set up that neat little drop-down menu in Textmate, first download and unzip the “Completion.zip” package (available here). Second, dou…
Read more…per. The “Report of the Dark Energy Task Force” is available here on arxiv.org. Obviously, it’s hard not to love a paper like this. The reasons appear to break down roughly as follows. Of course, as I’ve noted before, there remain many alternatives to dark energy cosmology. But without a title like this, I’m afraid the competition is doomed. Related Posts: Map of the cosmic acceleration literature Penrose in Pittsburgh No, there are STILL no deadl…
Read more…our well-beings. The press for CERN is of course nice. But as I’ve argued before, there will be no deadly black holes created at CERN. The theories that predict mini black holes are highly — I repeat, highly — speculative. For example, in the paper Kentucky mentions, the authors adopt a Randall-Sundrum (RS) brane world model. In these theories, gravitational interactions take place in 5-dimensional (4+1) anti de Sitter spacetime, in which there is…
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