I will happily accept a gift of a new laptop from you!

Go and find some job, you lazy …!

will probably need a review of all your statements that avoids any irony because I have probably got lost in it.

I thought nobody will notice that, cheers Yes, nasty, because this thinking tank produces rather strange thoughts, too often rolling around various conspiracy theories. Maybe, this is in national character.
And I believe any single statement of mine contains some amount of irony

AdS/H2O described from you would be great!

Yeah, now I am supposed to read those papers myself, without a friend’s hand.

Cheers,
Dmitry.

I wrote “years to follow” which means “years in the future”. My desktop PC is from Summer 2007, with a new GPU and extra memory added during the time.

But it is true that my only laptop at this moment is actually from late 2001 and this age gives it a special degree of reliability. You know, that’s the conservative, faithful nature.

If you want to make me more progressive and increase my computer promiscuity, I will happily accept a gift of a new laptop from you! Duo processor or more, and GeForce 9600 or more is welcome.

LJ Russia is suddenly a “nasty” machine? I will probably need a review of all your statements that avoids any irony because I have probably got lost in it. AdS/H2O described from you would be great! And your indication that you enjoy watching violence will be ignored now.

Best wishes
Lubos

My crashes may have been caused by the dust under my CPU fan – by removing it on Friday afternoon, the stable temperature dropped by 10+ deg C which might have been enough to avoid blue screens of death and freezes for 2+ days, and maybe for years to follow.

For years???? Don’t you have a natural desire (as all sensible human being do) to buy a new PC once in a couple of years?

I will see whether it makes sense to write the answer to these information-loss-issues again. Whatever will happen, you should certainly feel that people – at least myself – are surely interested in your further progress that will hopefully survive deeper checks than what I?ve seen so far.

Ok, thanks for the encouragement

Concerning your celebration of the Russian think tanks, well, Russia is a pretty cultural nation of 140 million and the topics you mention are pretty standard topics that a large fraction of the educated population cares about. So it?s not shocking to find some good and intense stuff and collaboration. Of course that it?s harder with (serious) cosmology or string theory. I estimate the number of Russians who are sufficiently familiar with string theory not to write complete rubbish to be 200, and only roughly 2% of them care about the Internet, like to write, and debate. So with these 4- people, you won?t get hundreds of people in similar threads, sorry.

It seems, you missed my point completely I said “thousands of people collecting hundreds of comments per post” (take a look at LJ of this guy for example, not among the most famous ones). Russian LJ sector did become one big nasty machine and proved in principle that the blogosphere is a working model. Then, again, I don’t need to discuss string theory with Russians only, there are Czechs around and even people from Kazakhstan (see comments in the post about Dienes-Thomas paper )

As for AdS/H20, I certainly think that you have much more to say about it than I do. If nobody is going to pick up topic, then eventually I’ll feel – I will have to take it. Do you really want me to do that??

Love to read how you fight with Peter

Cheers,
Dmitry.

My crashes may have been caused by the dust under my CPU fan – by removing it on Friday afternoon, the stable temperature dropped by 10+ deg C which might have been enough to avoid blue screens of death and freezes for 2+ days, and maybe for years to follow.

I will see whether it makes sense to write the answer to these information-loss-issues again. Whatever will happen, you should certainly feel that people – at least myself – are surely interested in your further progress that will hopefully survive deeper checks than what I’ve seen so far.

Wow, was it my dummy tail at http://capitalistimperialistpig.blogspot.com/ who killed the blogosphere? Whoever it was, I find all these hypotheses bizarre.

Blogosphere is clearly not the ultimate mean of communication that was supposed (by sensible people) to control the world in an unchanged form for millenia (it was rather a fashionable trend that may have peaked in 2006 or so), so its influence is obviously going to be suppressed by competing new and old, more technological or less technological channels. On the other hand, it’s surely not going to entirely disappear, much like books or TVs have not disappeared, despite prophets who have predicted otherwise.

Concerning your celebration of the Russian think tanks, well, Russia is a pretty cultural nation of 140 million and the topics you mention are pretty standard topics that a large fraction of the educated population cares about. So it’s not shocking to find some good and intense stuff and collaboration. Of course that it’s harder with (serious) cosmology or string theory. I estimate the number of Russians who are sufficiently familiar with string theory not to write complete rubbish to be 200, and only roughly 2% of them care about the Internet, like to write, and debate. So with these 4- people, you won’t get hundreds of people in similar threads, sorry.

Concerning the AdS/H2O duality , it’s cool but I am not the ideal person to discuss papers in this direction, especially not those that I don’t find to be “quite the pioneering ones” (unless I misunderstand something; I feel that the papers by Minwalla et al. and others are more important).

These things surely do work to some extent (and many phase transitions can be connected on both sides) but I don’t understand the statements of some of the proponents that it is an exact duality. I don’t have a feeling that they discuss fully defined theories on both sides. Here I am not talking about “academically” incomplete well-definedness at the level of non-perturbative type IIB string theory on RR backgrounds. I mean ill-definedness at the level of not knowing how many supercharges and massless fields there are.

It might be much more interesting to hear the voices of the people who have worked on closely related issues, including Moshe Rozali or Clifford Johnson. On the other hand, it might fail to be interesting because of their fuzzy “polite” approach to anything.

Concerning PW, well, I surely didn’t know that by his copying of the boring textbook material on the BRST formalism that no one reads, he was trying to do research that will be viewed as original by other people. Instead, it looked to me that the man was trying to create the (completely wrong) feeling that PW had something to do with real technical physics of maths which is of course extremely far from the real world.

I suspect that this boring, old, rudimentary material from the mediocre computer administrator will only be viewed as original stuff in the future by someone else if our Universe is described by a cyclic cosmological model.

The idea that physics is waiting to learn some new important things about the “proper” electroweak sector of the Standard Model sounds utterly ludicrous to me. It seems that PW is confusing 2008 with 1975 if not 1962. If a layman in discipline finds the very definition of gauge theory or the BRST formalism or the spinors mysterious in 2008, he should still realize that it doesn’t mean that bright grad students feel the same mystery: the mystery could be caused by a severe, brutal brain limitation of PW which is the case, after all.

Merry Christmas again,
Lubos

Merry Xmas to you, you daughter and wife! My wish is that you finally present a correct answer to the poll about chromoelectric flux tube

cheers

Thanks so much for dropping by and for the link!

I didn’t think the fact that I adore the physics (and mathematics) behind gauge theories was much of a secret, or a weakness.

It was just a Xmas joke

The new point of view on BRST that I’m trying to explain may or may not ever end up having anything to say about confinement, I really don’t know. Personally I’m more interested in seeing whether it has anything to say about the electroweak sector

I was just thinking that maybe, if you discuss BRST anyway, you will want to mention Kugo and Ojima work on BRST, and if you will – then there is just one step to their confinement criterion.

Cheers,
Dmitry.

Happy to add you to my blogroll.

I didn’t think the fact that I adore the physics (and mathematics) behind gauge theories was much of a secret, or a weakness.

The new point of view on BRST that I’m trying to explain may or may not ever end up having anything to say about confinement, I really don’t know. Personally I’m more interested in seeing whether it has anything to say about the electroweak sector…