Author Archives: woit

The SLAC web-site today has a feature article entitled SLAC Physicists Develop Test For String Theory*. The “*” refers to a footnote to the title saying “Under Certain Conditions”. This is about the 10500th news story making this kind of … Continue reading →

The CERN Council Strategy Group is putting together a document proposing a European stategy for particle physics, in a process to be completed this July. As part of this process, earlier this week the group held an Open Symposium at … Continue reading →

David Goss wrote to tell me that Physics Web has an article about physics weblogs. The theorists quoted are Sean Carroll, Paul Cook and Dave Bacon. There’s an article by Michael Green in the latest Nature Physics reporting on the … Continue reading →

One of Fermilab’s recent colloquia was by James Rozensweig of UCLA on the topic of Reinventing the Accelerator for the High-Energy Frontier. Video and Powerpoint slides of the talk are now available. Current accelerator technologies are up against very fundamental … Continue reading →

Thanks to Wolfgang Beirl for the news that there’s an exciting new string theory blog, called The Official String Blog.

This month, the New York Times book review has been the place to follow the latest debates about what is going on in particle theory. This started with an essay by John Horgan on January 1, which drew letters to … Continue reading →

I’d been wondering what’s up with Witten and his ongoing work on geometric Langlands. He has been giving talks about this since last summer, and in the past has always quickly produced a paper (often a quite long one) once … Continue reading →

The German weekly Die Zeit has an article this week by Max Rauner about string theory, the Landscape, and the controversy over whether this is science or not. My German is rather shaky, but as far as I can tell … Continue reading →