Alright, time to discuss some physics again. A while back I outlined the basic dichotomy of quantum gravity. In brief: we have classical general relativity as an excellent description of all observed gravitational phenomena, but when we go to extremely short distances we need to have a good description of quantum gravity. There are two [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Emergent gravity
Posted in gravity, high energy physics, Physics, Quantum Gravity, string theory on November 26, 2008 | 42 Comments »
Turkey day
Posted in humor on November 26, 2008 |
Turkey day is upon us. If you want to have some holiday fun, go and read the blog of all cakes gone bad where I got the picture shown here. They have some really dreadful looking stuff out there. Also, because I like reading some science fiction, especially if its written by Iain M. Banks, [...]
Next time, bring two books.
Posted in movies, Physics, Rant, tagged movies, Physics on November 25, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Flying in long flights is the way I usually catch up with movies I have not seen. I’m many times too tired to work, and not tired enough to sleep. If all goes well I get to see one reasonable movie and I’m happy. I usually also bring something to read and that is the [...]
Oh, how I miss Texas
Posted in Personal on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I went to graduate school in the University of Texas at Austin, which in fact is the place I first met David. Texas is a strange and wonderful place, and despite appearances a fairly normal locale (as long as you stay in Austin). If you have not lived there for any period of time, you [...]
At the same time, in some other corner of the world…
Posted in Blogging, Rant on November 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s time for some linking extravaganza. I was reading an article in an airplane magazine that says that blogs that redirect people to stuff they might want to read get more readers and a bigger following. The article suggested 3 external links per post and there was something else about optimizing google searches with people [...]
Moral Dilemma
Posted in Academia, Science ethics on November 21, 2008 | 12 Comments »
There are occasional Science Ethics questions that must be confronted. Sometimes they are big: someone falsifies their data in which case a big storm ensues after it is reported. Sometimes they are small: someone misspells your name in a presentation and you want it fixed. And then sometimes they are interesting from the point of [...]
If you are ever the adventuresome type, try eating one of these while you are visiting Beijing.
Another interlude
Posted in Personal on November 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While most of you will be reading this, I will be otherwise occupied. In a way of apology and explanation of my recent and anticipated silence, and to capture the spirit of the day, here is a familiar piece of music (albeit in a somewhat unusual rendition): This also comes to mind In case someone [...]
Inelastic dark matter.
Posted in high energy physics, Physics, quantum fields, tagged high energy physics, Physics on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been learning a few new tricks about phenomenology of dark matter recently. Particularly, I started reading about inelastic dark matter. I have had the benefit to be able to talk to one of the originators of some of these ideas and I thought I would share some of them. Not because I believe [...]
Postdoc season officially open…
Posted in Academia, cartoon, Rant on November 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
There is that time of the year when my e-mail starts getting flooded with questions about postdoc positions. Today marks the official beginning of postdoc 2009 season (marked by the first e-mail of the season). At UCSB we get hundreds of applications for postdoc positions in high energy theory every year. Postdoc hunting season [...]
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