Re: PERIMETER INSTITUTE: KEY TEXTS FROM EINSTEIN

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From: OsherD
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:51

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On Feb 2, 11:28 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Scientific/Courses/Special_Topics...
> The Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
> Instructor: Lee Smolin

[Reply from me, Osher Doctorow: ]

I never did quite understand how the Perimeter Institute and CalTech
landed the funds to retain Lee Smolin and Edward Witten and John
Schwarz, of respectively LQG, TQFT and M-Theory, and Strings/
Superstrings, especially since most of the breakthroughs are occurring
via India, Japan, Germany, and even places like U. Indiana USA, etc.
Nor should we neglect the beginnings of String Theory with Nambu,
Goto, or as Sarfatti reminds us, Veneziano.

It reminds me somewhat of the Classical Music Elitists who keep
claiming that Bach was the greatest Classical Composer because of his
"Ingenious Technical Proficiency" which has remarkable mathematical
parallels (technically, though!).   They have apparently never really
listened to Beethoven, whose Classical Music was so unrivalled that
the Classical Era ended after him because nobody could keep up with
him or even remotely rival him.   That era was followed by the
somewhat less spectacular "Romantic Era".   Mozart also has Creative
Genius almost as great as that of Beethoven, and both arguably make
Bach look like something less than the greatest.

Osher Doctorow

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