smolin article
Posted by
Carl Tollander on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/smolin-article-tp521571.html
recommended to your attention...
A most interesting non-technical article by Lee Smolin on "A Crisis in
Fundamental Physics",
at
http://www.nyas.org/publications/UpdateUnbound.asp?UpdateID=41( found via Peter Woit's "Not Even Wrong" blog;
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog/ )
One is reminded somehow of applied vs theory issues in various
complexity working groups
and companies. For the contending styles of research he mentions, it
appears that sometimes
one works better than the other, some decades later, the other style is
the way. While our
current economy and practice seem to be pressing very hard in one
direction, Where Are We?
Also, John Baez's "This Weeks Finds in Mathematical Physics" is out:
didn't know blueberries
could do that....
http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week227.htmlCarl