The always enigmatic FQXI foundation (try to guess the acronym!) announced a while ago its first essay competition. The topic is “the nature of time” and it has the potential to be very interesting (or not). From the perspective of a string theorist, this is truly a foundational question, one that needs much more work, and could use a couple of new ideas. With some luck I may write something here about the issues involved in the future.
In the meantime go and read, vote and contribute! At the moment many of the essays there seem to have lots of cut and paste marks all over them, but it is still early…
Thanks for pointing that out Moshe. I think it sounds interesting even if some of them do turn out bizarre and monstrous. What a great thing for FQXI to be doing, too.
I doubt there is going to be anything monstrous (not sure about bizarre), unless David persists with the pirate-speak.
Plenty of bizarre, indeed. Every other abstract mentions something about ‘consciousness’ or ‘free will’…