{"id":183,"date":"2005-04-18T23:53:24","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T03:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=183"},"modified":"2018-06-07T19:41:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T23:41:05","slug":"conferences-not-to-go-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Conferences Not To Go To"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week in Santa Fe there’s the International Conference on Science and Consciousness<\/a>, where Michio Kaku<\/a> will be giving a keynote address. He’ll explain how “Many physicists today believe in the multiverse, i.e. Genesis is constantly taking place in a timeless ocean of Nirvana, creating Big Bangs even as you read this sentence” and will tell about experiments to confirm the multiverse theory. He’s also running a workshop at the conference on “Visualizing Higher Dimensions” in which you can learn about how to capture different planes of existence (connected by wormholes) in simple pictures. His fellow speakers include Gary Schwartz, Ph.D. <\/a> who will explain how new experiments involving deceased parapsychologists and Princess Diana provide evidence for life after death, Steven Greer, M.D.<\/a> who “has taken teams around the world to make contact with Extraterrestrial Lifeforms”, and a host of others. Kaku is also interviewed in this week’s New Scientist<\/a>, where he explains that the Standard Model is “supremely ugly” and string theory is “gorgeous”. <\/p>\n

This fall the Metanexus Institute<\/a>, which is somehow part of the Templeton Foundation<\/a> will be organizing a symposium honoring Charles Townes called Amazing Light: Visions for Discovery<\/a> at which the Templeton Foundation will be announcing a “multi-million dollar, multi-year effort to catalyze research and dialogue at the boundaries of physics and cosmology” called Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology<\/a>. Not clear exactly what this will be funding, but if you check the Templeton website you’ll find that “we do not support what might be called standard or mainstream science research”<\/a>, so at least it won’t be any of that. In case you’re having trouble keeping them straight, this<\/a> is real, this<\/a> is a joke. <\/p>\n

If you’re wondering how Templeton has convinced 18 Nobel Prize winners to attend, Sean Carroll has a very interesting posting<\/a> explaining how he decided to pass up the \\$8000 + expenses he could have made by speaking at this conference. Also if you’re wondering why Templeton gave Townes a \\$1.4 million prize this year, you can read his remarks<\/a> upon accepting it, where he explains that “Increasingly, science is showing how special our universe and we are, which has raised questions about whether it was indeed planned or influenced.”<\/p>\n

In other news, Susskind seems to have ruined his chances at the \\$1.4 million today. In his talk<\/a> at Brown, according to Daniel Doro Ferrante<\/a> he “repudiated any connections with Intelligent Design”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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