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Relaunching NEQNET
Dear all, After 1.5 years I finally consider myself settled down and ready to return to more or less active blogging. NEQNET will be relaunched within the next 30 days with new design and hopefully lots of new content. Also, as it seems, there will be new team members working for NEQNET together with me [...]
JHEP is to be published by Springer
Just received an interesting email: Dear Colleague, we would like to inform you that as of 1st January 2010, JHEP will be published by Springer. This agreement is based on the following key principles: * The scientific community will remain in full control of all the scientific and editorial aspects of the Journal. * As [...]
Workshop on tests of gravity in Case Western – day 2 and Arkani-Hamed’s talk
The second day of the Workshop on Tests of Gravity (and here is my blog post about the first day) was mostly devoted to analog models (Bill Unruh, Michael Uhlmann, George Pickett) and models of modified gravity (Nima Arkani-Hamed, Justin Khoury, Stacy McGaugh, Ted Jacobson, Levon Pogosyan and Mark Wyman). Regarding analog models I don’t [...]
Two levels of irony of waterboarding
Started here systematically reading “Huffington press” – thinking that maybe it will allow me to develop my language skills a bit… The hot topic there nowadays is waterboarding – can it be really considered torture or not? And if this is torture, is it really acceptable to use torture against enemies of the State – [...]
245. Interesting news from PI
Has just received an interesting email: WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada, February 9, 2009 ? Dr. Neil Turok, Director of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), is pleased to announce the appointment of nine more outstanding international scientists to the positions of PI Distinguished Research Chairs. The new Chairs include Yakir Aharonov of Chapman University, Nima [...]
227. Video of the day: Meissner effect in superconductors
Here is the video related to the Problem N8 that we have discussed yesterday (what you see is probably high superconductor – the liquid that the guy uses seems to be liquid nitrogen). The effect seems also to be related to the Problem N4 (confinement of quarks). I mentioned this idea several times on the [...]
201. Breaking Symmetry
Our universe has things in it because Chance quantum fluctuations enable. Nothing is what violates Nature’s laws – Something is apparently more stable. Super-symmetry was asking for it. It was just too perfect to be withstood, And once it took the predictable hit It lit up the entire neighbourhood, And in that Big Bang, the [...]
185. And more about AdS/QCD
Matt Reece from Princeton has kindly agreed to answer to a couple of my questions related to his comment after the interview with Josh Erlich on AdS/QCD. I hope that his answers will be as interesting for you as they were for me. In what follows D. – me, M. – Matt. D.: You said [...]
160. Quantitative analysis for beginners. Dumb Gaussian approximation
Back in Munich, when we were discussing the crisis (apart from so many other things ) with Serge Winitzki, he eventually stated that the crisis’ takeoff is ultimately related to the ignorance of financial analysts – namely, they ignore the fact that rare (in the sense of Gaussian statistics) events are not that rare [...]
151. No blogging for Xmas!
Hehe, I am nerdy, that’s true, but I’m not that nerdy Merry Christmas again to you, readers of NEQNET!
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Large non-Gaussianity from axion inflation
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On strong disorder renormalization
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Relaunching NEQNET
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Saturday’s photoguess: what does this monkey symbolize?
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Dynamics of space storm
June 19, 2009 12:06
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Micro: Can 2 question provide a common solution? Black holes, information loss paradox and Ultra high energy cosmic rays. ...
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James Ph. Kotsybar: SAGITTARIUS A* -- James Ph. Kotsybar Mysteriously cloaked, obscure despite Interior illuminating glare, Long ...
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cad: The presentation can be found in several formats at http://pirsa.org/08110051/...
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Leo: Ok I have a question: if a black hole is supermassive, say 100 billion solar mass, let's suppose Alice fells int...
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superkuh: I am glad you are back! No more disapointing weekly refreshings of that monkey....
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Ariel Amir: Very interesting, thanks. It indeed seems to be very close to what we discuss here. I wonder whether the distributi...
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