{"id":3229,"date":"2010-10-18T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T13:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2010-10-25T20:37:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T00:37:30","slug":"bogdanov-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3229","title":{"rendered":"Bogdanov Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year the Bogdanov brothers published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/visage-dieu-Igor-Bogdanov\/dp\/2246772311\">Le Visage de Dieu<\/a>, yet another book dealing with their ideas about the big-bang and pre-big-bang physics.  This follows their earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Avant-Big-Bang-cr\u00e9ation-monde\/dp\/2253117196\/\">Avant le Big Bang<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/gp\/product\/2750903866\/\">L&#8217;\u00e9quation Bogdanov : Le secret de l&#8217;origine de l&#8217;Univers?<\/a> a book that they somehow got Lubos Motl to take credit for.  I haven&#8217;t seen the new book, but it seems that it takes off from George Smoot&#8217;s comment that looking at the CMB was like &#8220;seeing the face of God.&#8221;  Somehow the brothers have managed to get well-known cosmologists Robert Wilson, Jim Peebles and John Mather to contribute pieces to the book.<\/p>\n<p>In other Bogdanov news, I hear from a Paris correspondent that an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marianne2.fr\/docs\/rapport_cnrs_bogdanoff.pdf\">interesting document<\/a> has recently come to light, a report commissioned by the CNRS after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bogdanov_Affair\">Bogdanov Affair<\/a> made headlines back in 2002.  For press coverage of this, see <a href=\"http:\/\/sciences.blog.lemonde.fr\/2010\/10\/16\/les-jumeaux-bogdanov-etrilles-par-le-cnrs\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sciences.blogs.liberation.fr\/home\/2010\/10\/un-document-accablant-pour-les-bogdanov.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marianne2.fr\/REVELATIONS-Le-rapport-du-CNRS-qui-flingue-les-Bogdanoff_a198523.html\">here<\/a>.   The CNRS critique, from November 2003 is detailed, harsh and devastating. For instance, about Igor Bogdanov&#8217;s thesis (which ended up being published in multiple copies in several respectable journals, including the highly thought of Classical and Quantum Gravity), the conclusion is &#8220;la valeur de ce travail est nulle&#8221;, this work is of no value.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  For another informative article about the Bogdanovs, from this summer, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arretsurimages.net\/contenu.php?id=3280\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year the Bogdanov brothers published Le Visage de Dieu, yet another book dealing with their ideas about the big-bang and pre-big-bang physics. This follows their earlier Avant le Big Bang, and L&#8217;\u00e9quation Bogdanov : Le secret de l&#8217;origine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3229\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}