{"id":661,"date":"2008-02-28T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T04:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=661"},"modified":"2008-06-17T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T16:03:50","slug":"fleinhardt-hits-a-roadblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Fleinhardt Hits a Roadblock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Fleinhardt, the fictional Caltech string theorist in the TV show Numb3rs, has decided to give up on string theory for now and become a phenomenologist.  According to the show&#8217;s co-writer Nick Falacci:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like real-life physicists, Fleinhardt hit a roadblock trying to create an 11-dimensional supergravity theory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, he will be joining the DZero collaboration at the Tevatron and work on the search for the Higgs.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fnal.gov\/pub\/today\/archive_2008\/today08-02-28.html\">Fermilab Today<\/a>, an office for Fleinhardt at Fermilab has already been created.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear if Ed Witten or his brother <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=159\">Matt<\/a> had anything to do with this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Fleinhardt, the fictional Caltech string theorist in the TV show Numb3rs, has decided to give up on string theory for now and become a phenomenologist. According to the show&#8217;s co-writer Nick Falacci: Like real-life physicists, Fleinhardt hit a roadblock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","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\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}