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Defending ideas we don't believe: string theory is a waste of time
Sean Carroll started an interesting game, collecting the best arguments for things he doesn't believe . While I also frequently find arguments su…
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Polchinski's review of the cosmological constant puzzle
As Amanda from SG has reminded me, Joe Polchinski participated at the Solvay Conference and gave an interesting talk about the cosmological constant …
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Particle physicists must retake the vacuum selection problem
Vacuum selection is a short-distance problem and cosmologists' buttocks should be kicked out of this serious business Alexander Vilenkin released…
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Is nature natural?
Jon Butterworth of ATLAS asked the same question on his Guardian blog . Many other physicists will be asking the question increasingly more frequentl…
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New Scientist on TOE
The new issue of New Scientist discusses the current situation of our field, it does so relatively honestly, and the spectrum of topics is consequen…
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Brian Cox and Leonard Susskind on String Theory & Supreme Master TV
Part II: Extra Dimensions (and Susskind's DNA/compactification landscape analogy) Our Universe Among Others I , II , III (22+24+19 minutes with…
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OVV in higher dimensions?
Brett McInnes proposes a generalization of the Hartle-Hawking approach to the vacuum selection problem pioneered by Ooguri, Vafa, and Verlinde (OVV) …
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Landscape of the Standard Model
On Thursday, Sergei Dubovsky informed us about some new details of their work with Nima Arkani-Hamed et al. about the landscape of the Standard Model…
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Disorder on the landscape
Dmitry I. Podolsky, Jaydeep Majumder, Niko Jokela ( PDF ) propose a new, possibly crucial mechanism of the vacuum selection. Dmitry also has a highl…
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A compromise with Lenny Susskind
After roughly six e-mails we exchanged with Lenny Susskind who started the debate with this sentence: LS: Dear Motl, I heard that you have some stro…
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NP-hard landscape problems
The topological conference has attracted a lot of great mathematical physicists and mathematicians. I will report on Robbert Dijkgraaf's talk in …
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Nongeometric flux vacua
Brian Wecht has explained us - a J453 standing room only crowd at Harvard - their (Jessie Shelton, Wati Taylor, and Brian Wecht) work on Non-geometri…
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