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September 28th, 2007

String Theory: We’re Ahead of Ourselves

From Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries by Steven Weinberg (aff. link):
Edward Witten has said that the reason we are having so much trouble doing superstring physics is that it is twenty-first century physics, which we accidentally discovered thirty years too early.
Oh. I though the reason we couldn’t do superstring physics was […]

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September 20th, 2007

Alas, Einstein Was No Failure in Math

How many of you grew up encouraged by the thought that Einstein was a poor student in math? While struggling through my math blocks, I often took solace in the thought that one of humanity’s greatest minds had a hard time also.
It isn’t true though, I’m currently reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Einstein (aff. […]

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