{"id":13059,"date":"2022-09-11T17:13:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T21:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=13059"},"modified":"2022-09-14T10:08:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:08:44","slug":"some-news-then-more-of-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=13059","title":{"rendered":"Some News, Then More of the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some News:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ll be in England later in the month, in Oxford much of the week of the 26th-30th. That week is the week of the 2022 Clay Research Conference and Workshops<\/a>. The evening of Tuesday the 27th I’ll be giving a public talk on Unified Theories of Physics<\/a>, sponsored by the Oxford Centre of the Institute of physics.<\/p>\n

The 2022 HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London<\/a> was supposed to be the weekend of September 17-18, but has been postponed two weeks because of the death of the Queen. It’s now scheduled instead for the weekend of October 1-2 and I’ll likely be there, participating in a couple of panel discussions.<\/p>\n

More of the Same:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve written too much here<\/a> over the years about the problems with multiverse theories. For short versions, there’s also FAQ entries here<\/a> and here<\/a>, and a piece called Theorists Without a Theory<\/a> I wrote for Inference. Seeing some recent things about this topic from people I generally agree with (e.g. here<\/a> and here<\/a>) leads to an uncontrollable urge to reiterate some of my arguments, so:<\/p>\n