Friday, October 21, 2005

News on string theory in the media

How faithful picture of string theory do the media offer? Let's look at this sample from the last 48 hours or so. ;-)

  • "EinsteinFest" at the Perimeter Institute attracts 18,000 people
  • Vanishing Netgear rebate proves additional dimensions predicted by string theory
  • India Daily has another experimental proof of extra dimensions
  • India Daily had yet another article "String Theory" one day earlier
  • Brian Regan's brain exploded when he watched string theory on PBS
  • It is argued that the rest of the show "Girlfriends" looks like string theory
  • Emerson Quartet that became famous for joining Brian Greene plans to perform Mendelssohn and Mozart
  • Steel string theory is going to perform in Ohio
  • Alan Lightman thinks that artists are like scientists because they also like string theory
  • Ancient neutrinos described in a crackpot paper may prove either loop quantum gravity, string theory, or a required diet for Schrödinger's cat
  • Computer simulations indicate that type IIA vacua with orientifolds of six-tori produce one MSSM-like model per one billion of backgrounds