Friday, June 16, 2006

Washington Taylor: Googol is not large enough

Wati Taylor was asked by Google Inc. to give a talk about string theory. So he chose the topic

I think that the people from Google liked the idea, assuming that they did not understand that it was about the landscape. ;-) Googol, i.e. the number 10^{100}, is less than the number of vacua they expect to be relevant for solving the cosmological constant problem. Other videos with "string theory" include