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Gayoung Lee at Gizmodo today has responses to the question Whatever Happened to String Theory?.

Carlo Rovelli and I give the obvious and accurate answer that it’s a failed idea, explaining why. The other answers exhibit the sad state of continuin...

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A few quick math/physics items (OK, mostly math…):

  • Contributions to next year’s ICM have already been written up by many speakers, and posted on the arXiv. Try this link to find them.
  • There’s a wonderful new result from Kevin Costello that he talks about ...
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    Chen-Ning Yang (often known in the US as “Frank”) passed away in Beijing yesterday at the age of 103. He was the last of the great figures of 1950s high-energy particle physics still with us.

    His name is associated with two of the central ideas of what was to become the Standard Model.

  • In 1953, together with Robert Mills, he wrote down the extension of the the...
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    I’m trying to not get distracted from finish writing up notes on some new ideas about Wick rotation, but here’s some news from Vichy-on-Hudson.

    Jonathan Cole, who was provost from 1989 to 2003, has written an excellent l...

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    The fall semester is now under way at Columbia, and in many ways things are normal: enrollments are as usual or higher, foreign students have mostly gotten visas and are on campus. There are some new things though which are very different.

    The temporary card tables and tents housing the security at the gates have been replaced by permanent guard houses. The lockdown is...

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