End-of-the-Year Miscellany
Physics blog post of the week: Scott Aaronson's Mercenary in the String Wars.
Physics blog comment of the week: Sean's admission at a follow-up to Scott's post, where after some litigation he forfeited to me all the money he made by using the phrase "String Wars", which belongs officially to me now.
Books bought this week at the cheap prices for secondhands in Buenos Aires: Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, Vladimir Bartol's Alamut, and Louis Menard's The Metaphysical Club; all in perfect condition and at a total price of 34 pesos, or about 6 pounds. I'm aiming at finishing the first one before I fly back to Nottingham; it is an alternative history based on the premise of the total extermination of the European population by the Black Death and the gradual rise of Islam and China as major world powers. Engrossing at some parts, boring at others.
Dream of the week: a doze I had today, in which I figured out the final theory of quantum gravity. The only thing I remembered in awaking is that the key concept was the notion of "more or less".
Friend of the week: my cynical friend, aka Bad Santa, aka The Ghost of Christmas; he knows why.
Greeting of the week for all my readers: Have a happy 2007!
Physics blog comment of the week: Sean's admission at a follow-up to Scott's post, where after some litigation he forfeited to me all the money he made by using the phrase "String Wars", which belongs officially to me now.
Books bought this week at the cheap prices for secondhands in Buenos Aires: Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, Vladimir Bartol's Alamut, and Louis Menard's The Metaphysical Club; all in perfect condition and at a total price of 34 pesos, or about 6 pounds. I'm aiming at finishing the first one before I fly back to Nottingham; it is an alternative history based on the premise of the total extermination of the European population by the Black Death and the gradual rise of Islam and China as major world powers. Engrossing at some parts, boring at others.
Dream of the week: a doze I had today, in which I figured out the final theory of quantum gravity. The only thing I remembered in awaking is that the key concept was the notion of "more or less".
Friend of the week: my cynical friend, aka Bad Santa, aka The Ghost of Christmas; he knows why.
Greeting of the week for all my readers: Have a happy 2007!
posted by Alejandro at
7:24 PM
4 Comments:
more or less? Dreams of a final theory? I like that. With me it's the other way round. I go to bed thinking I've solved everything, then wake up in the middle of the night figuring why it doesn't make sense. Depressing, hum? Though there are people in the world who seriously believe I have the complete theory of everything in my desk drawer, but I just have fun seeing you poking around in the dark ;-) Best,
B.
PS: some more comments about the string wars here
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Sabine Hossenfelder, at 3:25 PM, January 10, 2007
Hi Bee. I more often "solve everything" (i.e. believe I have solved everything) in dreams than "un-solve" things as you say you do. The strange thing about this dream was that it was distinctly in English, not in Spanish; I emerged from it with the words "more or less" fixed in my mind. I can't remember any other dream of mine with such a clear linguistic element not in Spanish. To make it stranger, I was in Argentina at that time and had not spoken English for a few weeks.
I think you took Scott too seriously in your reaction to his post (which I found very funny). He is only a bemused outsider to the real String Wars, after all.
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Alejandro, at 4:56 PM, January 10, 2007
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