{"id":7908,"date":"2015-08-12T19:09:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T23:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7908"},"modified":"2015-08-12T19:09:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T23:09:57","slug":"short-items-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7908","title":{"rendered":"Short Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few short items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The New Yorker has its own coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/daily-shouts\/having-fun-at-camp-n-s-a\">here<\/a> of the NSA GenCyber summer camp program for children that was discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7867\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The LHC is about to start doing physics again at 13 TeV, with beam intensity slowly ramping up in coming days and weeks.  You can follow what&#8217;s happening <a href=\"http:\/\/op-webtools.web.cern.ch\/op-webtools\/vistar\/vistars.php?usr=LHC1\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Some filmmakers are planning an IMAX film about the LHC, more information available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/explore-the-secrets-of-the-universe-at-the-lhc#\/story\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Online media stories with skepticism about the multiverse continue to appear. The latest one is by Shannon Hall at Nautilus, with the title <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/blog\/is-it-time-to-embrace-unverified-theories\">Is it Time to Embrace Unverified Theories?<\/a> (I think it&#8217;s a general rule that the answer to all questions in titles is No).  I like one of the comments on the piece, arguing that some speculative physics is best thought of not as science or religion, but as a game.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s behind a paywall and I haven&#8217;t seen the full story, but this week&#8217;s New Scientist has a piece entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22730330-200-what-if-most-of-reality-is-hidden\/\">What if .. Most of reality is hidden?<\/a>  A large amount of theoretical activity in recent decades has gone towards ways of figuring out how to hide new physics from any possible interaction with experiment.  It seems this is another way of characterizing the problem discussed in the Nautilus article of unfalsifiable theories.  Again, since it&#8217;s the title of an article, the answer should be No.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few short items: The New Yorker has its own coverage here of the NSA GenCyber summer camp program for children that was discussed here. The LHC is about to start doing physics again at 13 TeV, with beam intensity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7908\">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_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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiverse-mania"],"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\/7908","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=7908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7909,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7908\/revisions\/7909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}