Comments on: The Say of the Week http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-say-of-the-week-61/ private thoughts of a physicist and chessplayer Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:50:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Kea http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-say-of-the-week-61/#comment-99840 Kea Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:39:33 +0000 http://dorigo.wordpress.com/?p=1420#comment-99840 Oh well, if anything to do with MHV amplitudes and operads has to be AdS/CFT by definition then perhaps I should have mentioned AdS/CFT in my thesis. Would that help get me a job? Oh well, if anything to do with MHV amplitudes and operads has to be AdS/CFT by definition then perhaps I should have mentioned AdS/CFT in my thesis. Would that help get me a job?

]]> By: Luboš Motl http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-say-of-the-week-61/#comment-99839 Luboš Motl Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:05:58 +0000 http://dorigo.wordpress.com/?p=1420#comment-99839 Dear Kea, sure, CERN will host a conference for you but you must first establish a new CERN without the accelerator mumbo jumbo and without the expensive buildings mumbo jumbo. So it will probably be somewhere in the jungle but I am afraid that you will have to swim over there. ;-) I don't quite understand how you could "prefer" Alday's talk without tolerating the AdS/CFT mumbo jumbo because this *whole* talk was about the AdS/CFT, stringy approach to scattering amplitudes. ;-) This is a stringy conference so every talk except for Rovelli's talk crucially depends on string theory - even though most imbeciles at the N.E.W. blog may fail to figure it out. What do you mean by a thesis? Have you written a thesis? ;-) Best Lubos Dear Kea,

sure, CERN will host a conference for you but you must first establish a new CERN without the accelerator mumbo jumbo and without the expensive buildings mumbo jumbo. So it will probably be somewhere in the jungle but I am afraid that you will have to swim over there. ;-)

I don’t quite understand how you could “prefer” Alday’s talk without tolerating the AdS/CFT mumbo jumbo because this *whole* talk was about the AdS/CFT, stringy approach to scattering amplitudes. ;-) This is a stringy conference so every talk except for Rovelli’s talk crucially depends on string theory – even though most imbeciles at the N.E.W. blog may fail to figure it out.

What do you mean by a thesis? Have you written a thesis? ;-)

Best
Lubos

]]> By: Kea http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-say-of-the-week-61/#comment-99831 Kea Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:47:59 +0000 http://dorigo.wordpress.com/?p=1420#comment-99831 Actually, Lubos, I preferred Alday's talk on MHV amplitudes, since that's what my thesis was on, but I was a bit perplexed about all the AdS/CFT stuff because one can talk about operads quite easily without invoking stringy mumbo jumbo. Category theorists do it all the time. But good luck with the fairy hunting. Say, if they don't find a fairy field, do you think CERN will host a conference for Louise and Carl and Matti and me? Actually, Lubos, I preferred Alday’s talk on MHV amplitudes, since that’s what my thesis was on, but I was a bit perplexed about all the AdS/CFT stuff because one can talk about operads quite easily without invoking stringy mumbo jumbo. Category theorists do it all the time. But good luck with the fairy hunting. Say, if they don’t find a fairy field, do you think CERN will host a conference for Louise and Carl and Matti and me?

]]> By: dorigo http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-say-of-the-week-61/#comment-99821 dorigo Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:06:05 +0000 http://dorigo.wordpress.com/?p=1420#comment-99821 Hi Lubos, no, no darn stringy higgs may change my life. My life is determined by more mundane occurrences. As for the video, well, funny, but I first heard the story in the US and it was not with an italian as main character. It was long ago, you were probably still a good kid back then. Cheers, T. Hi Lubos,

no, no darn stringy higgs may change my life. My life is determined by more mundane occurrences.

As for the video, well, funny, but I first heard the story in the US and it was not with an italian as main character. It was long ago, you were probably still a good kid back then.

Cheers,
T.

]]> By: Luboš Motl http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-say-of-the-week-61/#comment-99820 Luboš Motl Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:45:45 +0000 http://dorigo.wordpress.com/?p=1420#comment-99820 By the way, Tommaso, was it you, the Italian man who went to Malta? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1TnzCiUSI0 By the way, Tommaso, was it you, the Italian man who went to Malta?

]]> By: Luboš Motl http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-say-of-the-week-61/#comment-99818 Luboš Motl Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:07:25 +0000 http://dorigo.wordpress.com/?p=1420#comment-99818 It's actually not a joke but an insight that will change your life - even your life, Tommaso. ;-) See more details in Cumrun's talk at strings, described minute-by-minute somewhere at http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/08/strings-2008-tuesday.html It’s actually not a joke but an insight that will change your life – even your life, Tommaso. ;-) See more details in Cumrun’s talk at strings, described minute-by-minute somewhere at

http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/08/strings-2008-tuesday.html

]]> By: Kea http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/the-say-of-the-week-61/#comment-99814 Kea Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:06:18 +0000 http://dorigo.wordpress.com/?p=1420#comment-99814 LOL! I love it! The FACT, as they say. LOL! I love it! The FACT, as they say.

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