Popular Articles & Talks
Popular Articles
String Theory, at
20, Explains It All (or Not), by Dennis Overbye, New York Times,
Dec 7, 2004.
Interview
of Raphael Bousso by Scientific American
The Holy Grail for many of today's theoretical physicists is a complete
quantum mechanical theory of gravity--useful for understanding the
behavior of balck holes, big bangs, and whole universes. But bridging
the gap between the smallest and largest constituents of reality will
probably require a few totally new conecpts (and shake our faith in
some old ones)...
The origin of neutrino mass by Hitoshi Murayama (html), Physics World, May 2002. physicsweb.org
New experimental data, which show that neutrinos have mass, are forcing
theorists to revise the Standard Model of particle physics.
The
String Theory Landscape by Raphael Bousso and Joe Polchinski,
Scientific American, September 2004
The theory of strings predicts that the universe might occupy one
random "valley" out of a virtually infinite selection of valleys in a
vast landscape of possibilities.
Hawking's Breakthrough Is Still an Enigma by Dennis Overbye, New York Times, January 2002
Popular Talks
Watch two of our members on TV!
Raphael Bousso talked about The World
as a Hologram
Hitoshi Murayama talked about E=mc2,
the famous equation by Einstein.
E=mc2
2005 Buhl Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University
by Hitoshi Murayama (UC Berkeley, Physics), April 21, 2005
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little bit till the movie file (6.2MB) is downloaded. Click on the
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would work, too.