83. Quintessence on the string theory landscape?
Nemanja Kaloper and Lorenzo Sorbo have recently released a paper explaining how the quintessence can be realized on string theory landscape. What is quintessence and why the question is important? (…)
81. Edward Witten’s talk on 3D gravity
Fascinating video of Edward Witten’s talk on 3D quantum gravity given at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.The picture that goes back to Deser, ‘t Hooft and Jackiw is the following. (…)
80. Watching worlds collide: bubbles, bubbles, bubbles
Getting tired of malicious attacks by anti-landscapists, Spencer Chang, Matt Kleban and Thomas Levi released a paper about one observable effect on string theory landscape. (…)
63. A little break for a poetry :-)
I was contacted by James Kotsybar, who presented me with several pieces of poetry I have no idea why he sent them to me, but they were fun to read - although not Shakespeare, but I liked them (in which respect - that I will not disclose). (…)
59. Eye on Arxiv: Quantum corrections to eta/s
I decided to turn the de Sitter discussion off for a moment, it would be more appropriate to return to it after the paper is ready anyway Hopefully, it will not take too much time for you to see it in ArXives. (…)