{"id":74,"date":"2004-08-25T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T14:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=74"},"modified":"2004-08-25T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T14:45:26","slug":"new-word-enters-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"New Word Enters English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <A href=\"http:\/\/www.arxiv.org\/abs\/hep-ph\/0408260\">preprint<\/A> by Tom Banks is out, about his idea of &#8220;Cosmological Supersymmetry Breaking&#8221;.  One notable aspect of the paper is a new terminology to describe Weinberg&#8217;s &#8220;prediction&#8221;  about the cosmological constant. Since the term &#8220;anthropic principle&#8221; normally applied to this has acquired a bad odor as it becomes clear it is not science,  Banks decides to come up with a different name for the argument. He refers to it as the &#8220;galactothropic principle of Weinberg&#8221;.  Let&#8217;s see if this catches on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new preprint by Tom Banks is out, about his idea of &#8220;Cosmological Supersymmetry Breaking&#8221;. One notable aspect of the paper is a new terminology to describe Weinberg&#8217;s &#8220;prediction&#8221; about the cosmological constant. Since the term &#8220;anthropic principle&#8221; normally applied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=74\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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-74","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\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}