Monthly Archives: July 2006

String Theory for Undergraduates

I hadn’t realized how many of the physics departments at the top universities in the US have instituted undergraduate string theory courses.  The only one I was aware of was MIT’s 8.251, String Theory for Undergraduates, taught by Barton Zwiebach, … Continue reading

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Various Weirdness

Must be something in the air, lots of weird things going on recently: My book has been officially non-endorsed by the people at Axes & Alleys. I finally realized why Lubos was carrying on about how if any errors in … Continue reading

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Many Worlds In One

Alex Vilenkin has a new popular book out about cosmology, entitled Many Worlds In One. It’s mainly about the extremely speculative end of cosmology, and much of it is devoted to explaining the author’s ideas on eternal inflation, creating the … Continue reading

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