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I cant find a lecture on the firewall theory right now as the site is down for maintenance but these fine folk can probably tell you all about it,

Though you might want to follow Leonard Susskind's primers on YouTube first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRZgW1YjCKk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzhlfbWBuQ8

you're welcome

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/video-library
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/

I cant find a lecture on the firewall theory right now as the site is down for maintenance but these fine folk can probably tell you all about it,

Though you might want to follow Leonard Susskind's primers on YouTube first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRZgW1YjCKk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzhlfbWBuQ8

you're welcome

...will soon be here: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Outreach/Public_Lectures/View_Past_Public_Lectures/

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is doing great work with its public outreach program that includes public lectures that are always have full attendance and which are available online. This year they are holding the Quantum to Cosmos Festival from Oct. 15 to 25. From the "About" page: "For 10 exciting days this October, Perimeter Institute's Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) will take a global audience from the strange world of subatomic particles to the outer frontiers of the universe. All events will occur on-site in Waterloo, Ontario and online at q2cfestival.com."

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is doing great work with its public outreach program that includes public lectures that are always have full attendance and which are available online. This year they are holding the Quantum to Cosmos Festival from Oct. 15 to 25. From the "About" page: "For 10 exciting days this October, Perimeter Institute's Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future (Q2C) will take a global audience from the strange world of subatomic particles to the outer frontiers of the universe. All events will occur on-site in Waterloo, Ontario and online at q2cfestival.com."

I hope Research in Motion's Perimeter Institute takes off.

Perimeter Institute is unrelated and not part of Research in Motion. A substantial chunk of original funding and enthusiasm was provided by Mike Lazaridis.

The Perimeter Institute recently gave a lecture on this, by Brian Schmidt, Australian National University - "The Universe From Beginning to End". I understand they will EVENTUALLY make these lectures available on their website, after they've made a bit of money by showing them on Discovery etc: https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Outreach/Public_Lectures/Public_Lectures/

It does make me wonder, however, of the bad stuff that gets falsely pinned to Dick, if the guy is really that bad at all.

With this logic, you could rehab almost anyone. There exists x who makes false claim y, therefore Cheney is chummy. The only qualification on x is ability to shoot mouth off. x could be the first person booted off American Idol and do no damage to your lemma as stated.

In fact, I read an article last night which said much the same about Ferdinand Marcos. After finishing Cryptonomicon, I was checking up Yamashita's gold. Everything else in the book with a historical basis I was familiar with already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita's_gold

Apparently some people fervently believe that Marcos didn't extra billions in wealth from the Philippines, but instead helped himself to gold extracted by the Japanese with ruthless efficiency pretty much anywhere they went during the war and the years leading up to the war.

Today I watched this video, via Edge. This is Taleb speaking at the Perimeter Institute on the leading edge of the aftermath of the downside of belief in fragile statistics.

http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/Flash/a28b2897-507f-40e2-8b71-e5d26992a01a/viewer.html

To cover inference from stupidity, as a higher grade of fragile statistic, we'd have to exhume Cantor to construct some whole new cardinalities.

Bad statistical instinct:

Stupid person x said y about z, therefore z isn't so bad after all.

Good statistical instinct:

Stupid person x said y about z, therefore what the hell am I doing loitering around here with spam shields inoperative?

http://www.preferrednetwork.com/GOLD_WARRIORS.htm

When we ran Freedom of Information queries to see what was behind it, we were grudgingly sent a copy of a telex message on which every word was blacked out, including the date. The justification given for this censorship was the need to protect government sources, which are above the law.

This source has so many shades of dubious it makes my eyes bug out, but one nevertheless wonders what Cheney actually deserves. Not judging so much by this, but other things, Cheney didn't find himself in a swirling cloud of false accusations by accident. Some transparency here and there from the Bush administration would have greatly reduced this effect.

Don't know if the Canadians are working on making a name for themselves in Theoretical Physics, but PI certainly is doing it for them. Attracting Hawking fits what they've been up to.

They also have a strong public outreach with public lectures; and if you're not close enough to attend you can view the past lectures at:

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Outreach/Public_Lectures/View_Past_Public_Lectures/

Greg

From one of the resources on superstring theory

Why do we see only point-like entities? The answer is simple: elementary strings, if they exist, are far too tiny to see. It is unlikely that even the most sophisticated microscope or particle accelerator that could be constructed would ever have enough resolution to directly "see" the strings of string theory.

Sounds like Epicurus all over again - small, indivisible, and invisible particles whose motion explain everything. Only he called them atoms.

I know superstring theory has better explanatory power than Epicurus' atomism, but I am intrigued by the invisibility of the strings, which the resourse above seems to make elementary, just like Epicurus.

The Einstein portrait caption reads "1870-1955". Einstein was born in 1879, the same year when Maxwell died.

Let's hope their theoretical physicists are more careful than their webdesigners.

Sorry to reply to my own post, but I carelessly forgot to add that you can learn more from a Preimiter Institute lecture on the subject, available here:
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=551&Itemid=568&lecture_id=3503

One of the coolest things about the Perimeter Institute is that they have a public lecture series. The lecturers are a mix of eminent scientists from inside and outside the Institute. The topics are mostly drawn from the edges of physics and cosmology. Some are more accessible to lay people than other.

The Institute has most of them available for offline viewing and reading. Maybe they could get Stephen Hawking one day.

I've enjoyed all of Simon Singh's books, but Fermat's Enigma really stands out.
"Math's Greatest Riddle" stood for 350 years taking swings from many a great thinker.
Singh makes the math easy to understand,
but what's REALLY interesting is the people who made progress towards the proof.
Like Sophie Germain who disguised herself as a man, "Monsieur Le Blanc" in order to become a mathematician.

He also did a similar treatment for Physics in "The Big Bang".
Thanks to you fine slashdotters, I watched his entertaining talk on the book at the Perimeter Institute.

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/

They just recently snagged Dr. Neil Turok from Cambridge to serve as the the executive Director - it looks like we will soon have all of England's great physicists

The RIM founder just kicked in another $50 Mil to his pet project:
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/News/In_The_Media/Mike_Lazaridis_Donates_Additional_$50_Million_to_Perimeter_Institute/

I would love to see Dr. Hawking at their monthly public outreach lectures.

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/

They just recently snagged Dr. Neil Turok from Cambridge to serve as the the executive Director - it looks like we will soon have all of England's great physicists

The RIM founder just kicked in another $50 Mil to his pet project:
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/News/In_The_Media/Mike_Lazaridis_Donates_Additional_$50_Million_to_Perimeter_Institute/

I would love to see Dr. Hawking at their monthly public outreach lectures.

If you look at his pic (grabbed here from here, he looks like an "if they mated" with Tom Hanks and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

If you look at his pic (grabbed here from here, he looks like an "if they mated" with Tom Hanks and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Nice way to keep the mean spirited issue at hand. You piss me off. I'm thinking that anyone whose web site is powered by Joomla http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Joomla!_License_Guidelines/ might actually take the hint if you kindly... KINDLY... ask them to produce the data in ODF formats.

Some of the people involved with this institution are well read and intelligent individuals. Talking like an asshat about them is not exactly an encouragement after all.

The content was put in a modifiable format, that's half the way there.

In case "Canada's non-profit and independent Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics" is reading their press, here are some suggestions:

Start here http://www.openoffice.org/

ARSTechnica http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/3/21/3278
http://www.osrc.org.pk/content/view/248/96/
http://www.fsfeurope.org/
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2007/10/apple-adds-supp.html
http://www.e-cology.ca/canfloss/report/CANfloss_Report.pdf
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments

And this search is interesting reading http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bodf+software+training+canada+education&btnG=Search

Here's the talk's abstract: "I will review the current state of the probability problem. My main focus will be on the attempts by David Deutsch and myself to provide a proof of the Born Rule starting from Everettian assumptions, but I will also attempt to locate these attempts within the more general framework of the probability problem."

The talk can be viewed here.

I heard it was a practical joke gone bad at The Perimeter Institue. Apparently, Lee Smolin was preparing synthetic black holes for the string theorists' offices, and one of them escaped and headed for RIM's control centre.

The Perimeter Institute has been putting its lectures online for some time now.

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/

Now I agree that it's good to have a central location for this sort of thing, but its hardly revolutionary.

Lee Smolin is on the faculty of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics which has an excellent public lecture series on physics and other scientific subjects. I have attended many of these lectures and they are always fascinating. These lectures are recorded and are available on PI's website in Windows Media format.

Lee Smolin is on the faculty of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics which has an excellent public lecture series on physics and other scientific subjects. I have attended many of these lectures and they are always fascinating. These lectures are recorded and are available on PI's website in Windows Media format.

Lee Smolin is on the faculty of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics which has an excellent public lecture series on physics and other scientific subjects. I have attended many of these lectures and they are always fascinating. These lectures are recorded and are available on PI's website in Windows Media format.

On the other hand, a future which offers quantum computing may also provide unclonable encryption and quantum key distribution, which I understand is more secure than current encryption methods.

W

On the other hand, a future which offers quantum computing may also provide unclonable encryption and quantum key distribution, which I understand is more secure than current encryption methods.

W

There are many countries other than just America where you can make it big on stock options. For instance, the Perimiter Institute was founded on the basis of the stock options of the founders of RIM. There is nothing uniquely American about the dream of making it big on the basis of your innovation and hard work.

According to this page, Quantum Key Distribution is a multi-step protocol which goes at the speed of the wires. It appears to be immune to eavesdropping, but not to a man-in-the-middle attack.

Quantum Authentication

Right. But well, some people have attempted to develop quantum authentication protocols like this one, this one, and this one. Dunno if the device in question does any of them, or even if any of them are actually practical to use with today's technology. If the device in question doesn't use quantum authentication of some kind, well, they're selling snake oil, but I wouldn't dismiss the whole concept of quantum cryptography out of hand totally the way you seem so ready to.