-Happy new year!
-Wait, it’s January 23rd, – you’re going to say – aren’t you a bit late?
-Sure, I’m late. So?
-Erm.
Well, that’s one more imaginary conversation with the audience of this blog. You might wonder if I disappeared from the face of the earth. As you can see, I’m still alive and the radio silence is over. I took a holiday break after my sabbatical quarter in the fall, and when I came back there was a tsunami of paperwork and stuff I didn’t have to care about in the fall waiting for me. The mountain of accumulated stuff pounced onto any available time that I had to do anything and it played with me like a kitty plays with its food before eating it.
Needless to say, my research and any reasonable activity took a hit. Which made me even persevere more in keeping my weekends free from work or any activity that could be construed as being even remotely related to work.
I’m finally getting caught up with this stuff so things will hopefully go back to normal.
In the meantime I’m going to open this post as a suggestion for topics that I could cover in the near future. Just in case there is some nagging question out there that anyone might want to have answered and that I might know the answer to, or any discussion that people are waiting to have and have found n other forum.
Just say “Happy Lunar New Year” and you’re covered because almost no one knows exactly when it is, just that it’s near the end of January.
I do have a question though. Quantum entanglement : actually a quantum phenomena, or does string theory have any way to explain the entanglement via non-separation in higher dimensions (i.e. they are still touching, you just can’t see in in 3 [4? I'm not sure how theoretical physicists regard time in this context] dimensions)?
At least, I swear somewhere on this blog I read you were somehow involved with ST, forgive me if I’m mis-remembering.
A second question: Does the Santa Barbara imply UCSB ?
Hi Nick:
Quantum entanglement is a quantum phenomenon. It only depends on having a piece of the Hilbert space of states that can be written as a non-trivial tensor product (you need at least four different states for this).
String theory assumes quantum mechanics is correct. It is not a `theory of quantum mechanics’ that gives a derivation of the rules of quantum mechanics from some other principles.
You don’t misremember about me being involved in string theory.
About Santa Barbara implying UCSB, yes in this case it does.
Hi David
Here is a popular question: Gravity is a fundamental force and why?
What Gauge/gravity dulaity has to say about this question?
Also another topic. How Gauge/gravity dulaity can help us understand the very early universe and the Bing Bang itself?
Another question about the early universe: why is it impossible to spell “Bing Band” correctly?
More serious: what is the Kerr/CFT correspondence good for?
hehe, cold fusion. err…low energy nuclear reactions.
Fluid-gravity correspondence: how does that work?
They used to correspond via email, but nowdays it’s mostly twitter or facebook.