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This is about the sixth week in a row that the Sunday New York Times Book Review has had something about string theory or the Landscape controversy. It has become the main place in the popular press to follow this. … Continue reading →

Stephen Hawking and Thomas Hertog have a new paper out, called Populating the Landscape: A Top Down Approach. It contains his version of the anthropic landscape idea, based on his “no-boundary” idea of quantum cosmology (sometimes also referred to as … Continue reading →

Various things from the past couple days related to Susskind, the Landscape, and his book The Cosmic Landscape: The paper Computational Complexity of the Landscape I by Frederik Denef and Michael Douglas is out. They show that even in simplified … Continue reading →

There’s a beautiful survey paper about elliptic cohomology that Jacob Lurie, an AIM 5-year fellow in the math department at Harvard, has recently put on his home page. This paper has been discussed a bit already by David Corfield and … Continue reading →

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 →