Listics

David Politzer’s Nobel lecture has quietly made it’s way onto the web.  Interesting reading, it’s sort of a behind the scenes look at the collegiality and cooperation in the theoretical physics community.  One gets a sense of the pressure to get results and publish, and perhaps certain ethical lapses rising from that pressure.

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I just finished watching Brian Greene’s Nova series, "The Elegant Universe."  This is a sweetly superficial look at the "theory of everything," string theory and why today, untestable as it appears, it seems to be as much philosophy as physics.