{"id":5900,"date":"2013-05-16T12:08:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2013-05-16T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:58:58","slug":"one-ring-to-rule-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5900","title":{"rendered":"One Ring to Rule Them All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week in Sweden the Nobel Foundation is running a symposium on LHC results.  It&#8217;s invitation only, but the slides of the talks are available <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=239571\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the scheduled talks today was about <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/getFile.py\/access?contribId=41&#038;sessionId=5&#038;resId=1&#038;materialId=slides&#038;confId=239571\">string theory<\/a>, and I was wondering how that would fit into the &#8220;LHC results&#8221; framework since string theory has nothing to say on the topic.  Now that the slides are available I don&#8217;t see anything about the LHC, but there are some remarkable revelations.   The first is that string theory is not science but &#8220;Magic&#8221;, with several slides describing the &#8220;Magic of String Theory&#8221;.  The relationship to mathematics is that in string theory &#8220;No concept in Math remains unambiguous&#8221;, which I guess is about what you would expect when you&#8217;re dealing with magic. <\/p>\n<p>An even bigger revelation comes later in the talk: string theory is Sauron&#8217;s Ring of Power!  It is described as &#8220;Concentrated Power&#8221; and it seems that the markings on the ring are a SUSY Lagrangian. Part of the Ring Poem is quoted<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,<br \/>\nOne Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To put this back in context, recall that this is Sauron&#8217;s ring he created in order to control everything from Mordor.  Here&#8217;s more of the poem, including the original language<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAsh tug Shakhb\u00fbrz-\u00fbr Ul\u00eema-tab-ishi za,<br \/>\nUzg-Mordor-ishi amal fauthut burg\u00fbli.<br \/>\nAsh nazg durbatul\u00fbk, ash nazg gimbatul,<br \/>\nAsh nazg thrakatul\u00fbk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul<br \/>\nUzg-Mordor-ishi amal fauthut burg\u00fbli.<\/p>\n<p>One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne<br \/>\nIn the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.<br \/>\nOne Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,<br \/>\nOne Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them<br \/>\nIn the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This interpretation of string theory as Sauron&#8217;s ring I suppose could explain a lot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in Sweden the Nobel Foundation is running a symposium on LHC results. It&#8217;s invitation only, but the slides of the talks are available here. 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