There are entire libraries of coffee table conversations about the multiverse. A lot of them explore the what if and are usually fun over a couple of drinks. When its done professionally however… On second thought I think I’ll not go there this time around. There is an online comic that is devoted entirely to [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Multiverse…
Posted in books, cartoon, humor, string theory on July 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Predictions of the future
Posted in humor on July 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I remember the promises of the future: we would all have our personal jets. Cars would have glass domes. We would all have robots doing everything for us and the computers would have conversations with us. Moreover we would all be eating like astronauts: pills for breakfast lunch and dinner, with the occasional toothpaste tube [...]
In press right now
Posted in Physics, science and society, string theory on July 20, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I recently gave an interview about my research to a newspaper run by my Alma matter mater. The article can be found here. It is in Spanish. As with most newspaper articles, very little science ends up punching through. It is extremely hard to communicate with the public without falling into my usual jargon. I [...]
Not exactly physics
Posted in Academia, humor, Physics on July 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Professional banter is as old as professions. This is a dramatization of my idle chatter on Saturday, when I bumped into someone that does condensed matter physics for a living. Bear in mind that this was a fun conversation and we were laughing all around. Other person: I heard you do physics. Me: yes. Other [...]
Gravity does not exist?
Posted in Academia, Quantum Gravity, science and society, thermodynamics on July 13, 2010 | 31 Comments »
I happened onto an article on the New York Times abut Erik Verlinde’s take on gravity as an Entropic force. The article was written by Dennis Overbye who most of the time does a good job of covering high energy physics. Erik’s work dates from earlier this year and can be found here. To tell [...]
Holland 2, Brazil 1
Posted in Personal, tagged Soccer, World Cup on July 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Well done! Holland just eliminated Brazil from the World cup by 2-1, defeating the odds. Even though Holland played a bad first half making a huge defensive mistake to give Brazil a first goal and it looked like they were going to go down very badly, they took over in the second half and played [...]
Cosmic censorship in five dimensions
Posted in gravity, Physics, Quantum Gravity on July 1, 2010 |
New evidence against cosmic censorship in five dimensions was announced today in the arxiv. The evidence is numerical, but it is done by a very good group of people working on numerical general relativity: Luis Lehner and Frans Pretorius. They argue that in the black string Gregory Laflamme instability the system develops `singularities in finite [...]
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