It's Thanksgiving here in the US, so blogging will be light to nonexistent. For the sake of those looking for a quick escape from the chaos of a family gathering, or, you know, those poor benighted souls in other countries for whom this is just another Thursday, here's a thematically appropriate poll about science:
Have a great holiday/ Thursday.
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It's not like I've mastered any of those. I can at best dabble in QM and SR.
BB cosmology: yeah yeah life began with a bang in a 'love field'.
Standard Model: soon to be forgotten in light of string theory. Are we really that confident about our geometries?
QED: this can be fixed, it'll take a few conferences of about 40 physicists on an island. Start with electrohydrodynamics and vacuum energy e.g. http://zeo-tech.de
Matrix QE: a matrix? Oh that's just a list in mathematica..
Schroedinger: nicely probabilistic. Next try probabilistic geometries. After all it was 1954 when M.E Wise gave the first geometric interpretation of a statistical parameter..
GR: nice Riemann and tensor analysis. Thanks Tullio and Marcel.
SR: brilliant, thanks Al.
TOE: does that include superconductivity? wow..
Internet polls: thank you..