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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also a pseudo professor. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
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Quantum Gravity - Topological Quantum Field Theory Blues
Category: Physics
Posted on: December 26, 2007 8:13 PM, by Dave Bacon
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Very good! Not exactly slow hand caliber, but good. One small flaw however; that is it should have been performed a Capella. That is such presentations are suppose to be background-independent :-)
Posted by: Phil Warnell | December 26, 2007 10:31 PM
Who is that?
Posted by: Jon | December 27, 2007 4:21 PM
Who is that? I suppose you mean Slowhand. In as what this refers to is a blues song I'm shocked. Just go to:
http://www.ericclapton.com/ and will be revealed.
Posted by: Phil Warnell | December 27, 2007 6:37 PM
Let me try again. Who is the guy in the video? It is clearly not Clapton.
Posted by: Jon | December 28, 2007 12:41 AM
I'm sorry that one is directed to Dave.
Posted by: Phil Warnell | December 28, 2007 7:21 AM
I've no idea who he is... Elvis Zap...
Posted by: Dave Bacon | December 28, 2007 10:39 AM
He's J. Scott Carter from The University of Southern Alabama!
Here is the song text:
The Quantum Gravity Topological Quantum Field Theory Blues
I've been calculating
I said I've been calculating
calculating all night long
Got a quasi- triangular Hopf algebra
and I wrote down the coproduct wrong.
I've been integrating
integrating the whole day through
I said I've been integrating
integrating the whole day through
Got a Chern-Simons functional integral
and its convergent, too.
I've been writing down knot diagrams
converting them to braids
Using the Alexander isotopy
you know I'm not afraid
I've been
assigning modules
to each of these six strings
been doin' it for weeks now
and I still don't understand a thing.
I've got them old Quantum Gravity
Topological Quantum Field Theory Blues
I've got them old Quantum Gravity
Topological Quantum Field Theory Blues
And without NSF funding I think that you would, too.
Karl E.
Posted by: Karl E. Hoffmann | December 28, 2007 3:01 PM