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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: Statistical mechanics
A couple months ago, Harvard's Sean Hartnoll gave a series of lectures at CERN about applications of gauge/gravity duality to condensed-matter physics (1, 2, 3, 4). Now, a set of notes based on these lectures is available on the arXiv...
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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: Carnivalia
Last night, I had a nightmare about trying to reach ScienceOnline '09: our plane landed, and for some reason dismissed by everybody else as charming local colour, it had to taxi through the Appalachian foothills for five hours. It's probably...
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Category: Astronomy
What we need, and what we're missing.
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Knots, cartoons and the dimensionality of spacetime.
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