From In the Dark:
Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. Its a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. . Continue reading
Are Many Worlds and the Multiverse the Same Idea?
By the author of From Eternity to Here:
There was a recent media kerfuffle about MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics), an alternative physical theory that supposedly eliminates the need to have dark matter be a major part of the universe.
I saw this on the blog of a British Astrophysicist:
If you haven’t seen this problem before, why not have a go?
Illustration by Stephanie Fox. Research by Nivair Gabriel.
At io9, with an explanation of why Star Trek was not included.
Via Universe Today.
At Convergence this past July they showed Mission to Mars with a live running commentary by a Physics professor and a JPL Systems Engineer. It was hilarious.
LHC’s Lack of Black Holes Rules Out Some Versions of String Theory
the LHC doesn’t seem to be making black holes at all—their decay signature is markedly absent from the data collected so far.
[This is] helping physicists make up their minds about how many dimensions there are in our universe. The lack of black holes at the LHC nullifies some of the wackier versions of string theory which depend on multiple dimensions.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 