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| Where’s the revolution? |
| String theory isn’t dead ? but isn’t making headlines either. Dennis Overbye reports |
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is not done by popular vote. But nothing can be taken
for granted when string theory is the subject. So when
Stephen Shenker, a Stanford University theorist who was
moderating a panel discussion in Toronto on the future
of the putative theory of everything, asked for a show
of hands on the fate of a strange number known as the
cosmological constant, some 400 physicists and mathematicians
were happy to swallow their doubts and vote... |
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| Fertile imagination |
| The
answer to life, the Universe and everything is 42,
according to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy. Writing the classic sci-fi fantasy in 1978,
Douglas Adams conjectured that everything known
about the cosmos could be reduced to a few numbers.
It was a good philosophical joke ... |
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| A Mac-like feeling |
There are drop-shadowed windows with semi-transparent
glossy green bars on which minimise-maximise-close
buttons glow like ballooned chicklets, but will
you be dazzled solely by ... | Read..
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| QED: Wanted: fun in science
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How would you react if your university arranges for a magic show as a supplementary to your regular curriculum? Wouldn’t it be nice if some boring lectures of molecular biology or quantum physics are replaced by a few funny tricks?
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| Recommended:
Poison in Conan Doyle stories
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POISON
ARROWS
Stanley Feldman
Metro; ? 14.99 ... | Read.. |
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Why Corner
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| Why does a sunrise look so different from a sunset? |
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The big man was slumped over his breakfast tray, face
cradled in a bran muffin, silent and blue. He had crashed
into the emergency room the evening before, bellowing
that he felt sick ... | 
