{"id":7744,"date":"2015-05-19T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7744"},"modified":"2015-05-21T07:36:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T11:36:51","slug":"various-news-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7744","title":{"rendered":"Various News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>First test collisions at 6.5 TeV\/beam at the LHC are tentatively scheduled for Thursday morning.<\/li>\n<li>At CERN today there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/382895\/\">workshop about the Higgs Machine Learning Challenge<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Also on the topic of LHC data analysis news, Tommaso Dorigo announces the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science20.com\/a_quantum_diaries_survivor\/amva4newphysics_statistical_learning_and_new_discoveries-155516\">award of a grant for the AMVA4NewPhysics project<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sabine Hossenfelder has a <a href=\"http:\/\/backreaction.blogspot.com\/2015\/05\/book-review-string-theory-and.html\">review, slideshow and discussion<\/a> of the Dawid book on &#8220;String theory and the scientific method&#8221; (which I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5880\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7005\">here<\/a>).<br \/>\nMuch of the discussion is about the &#8220;No Alternatives&#8221; argument, but at this point I don&#8217;t even see how it applies here. The Landscape shows that string theory unification is a failed program, which rules it out.  As for whether &#8220;gravitation is due to the spin two massless mode of a superstring&#8221; is the only alternative, these days my impression is that many prominent theorists are pursuing alternatives, that gravity is supposed to be an &#8220;emergent&#8221; phenomenon coming from something else.\n <\/li>\n<li>For those sticking to the 1984 point of view though, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/scgp.stonybrook.edu\/archives\/10356\">workshop<\/a> on some interesting mathematics that&#8217;s part of that story (super geometry, super moduli spaces) going on at the Simons Center.<\/li>\n<li>Last week on Jeopardy (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-archive.com\/showgame.php?game_id=4892\">here<\/a>), no one got this question:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Nima Arkani-Hamed is using this number dimension, the next one beyond time, to rock the physics world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have either&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>For a bit of mathematics history, you might want to read <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1505.00710\">Beilinson on Gelfand&#8217;s seminar<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Natalie Wolchover at Quanta keeps on coming up with interesting physics stories not seen anywhere else, last week covering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/20150514-the-particle-that-broke-a-cosmic-speed-limit\/\">news about ultra-high energy cosmic rays<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Successful test with first collisions at 13 TeV this morning at the LHC, see <a href=\"http:\/\/home.web.cern.ch\/about\/updates\/2015\/05\/first-images-collisions-13-tev\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First test collisions at 6.5 TeV\/beam at the LHC are tentatively scheduled for Thursday morning. At CERN today there&#8217;s a workshop about the Higgs Machine Learning Challenge. 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