Thursday, October 05, 2006

Got the world on a string ...

... aesthetics and string theory. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

See also Unstrung.

Also The Inelegant Universe.

2 comments:

  1. And here's the Nature take (sadly, subscription required):

    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7111/full/443491a.html

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  2. Nova has a super series of programs on this:

    The Elegant Universe.

    That Edward Witten in a smarty.

    Google Video has 54:36 minutes of it here:

    Welcome to the 11th dimension

    To Whom It May Concern: With Google Video, clicking on the blue "Email - Blog - Post to MySpace" button, then onto "Embed HTML" yields code to post the video onto a blog with. In this case:

    <embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-2386787941583237986&hl=en"> </embed>

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