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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
Category: arXiv
On the arXiv: Cong-Xin Qiu, "AdS/CFT Aspect of the Cosmological QCD Phase Transition" (arXiv:0812.2601). Published in Phys. Rev. D 79, 063505. Recently, deeper understanding of QCD emerges from the study of the AdS/CFT correspondence. New results include the properties of...
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Category: Bad Math
Dave Bacon points to a retrospective piece by the American Physical Society, "The Top Ten Physics News Stories of 2008", and he indulges in a little nitpicking. Well, N can play at that game! Look at this summary, under the...
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My mother was looking through the photo albums in the closet, and she found this, which apparently I drew in kindergarten: This must have been after I watched Timothy Ferris's The Creation of the Universe for the Nth time. Looking...
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Knots, cartoons and the dimensionality of spacetime.
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Category: Popularization
I revisit The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing.
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Category: Cosmology
Max Tegmark sings "The Relativity Song".
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