November 15, 2003

Strings
So of course we missed the start of the TV series about string theory, but thanks to the magic of streaming video the baby and I have started watching it online. For what it's worth, even when I was a physicist and went to super technical colloquia all the time, the string theory guys would give essentially the same layman-oriented description of their work even to audiences of physics professors. It's that mathematical and, so far, that unreal; it has proved impossible so far to design an experiment capable of proving or disproving string theory. Folks, untestability is the very essence not of physics, but of metaphysics.

So anyway, while I think about all this stuff and try to figure out how to match up what Dr. Greene is saying with what I remember from school days, this cute baby stares at the colorful special effects.
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