Massive Update on Strings Theory in Wikipedia

S3D writes "There is a massive update on Strings Theory in Wikipedia : AdS/CFT , Andrew Strominger , Cumrun Vafa, Ashoke Sen, Juan Maldacena, Mirror symmetry, String field theory, Holonomy, Heterotic string, Closed string , Open string, F-theory, Background independence, Higgs mechanism, Conifold, Tachyon_condensation, Einsteinian_manifold, Second superstring_revolution Now you can easyly tell Open string from Closed string at last."

Comments

Re:I'm not sure

[Anonymous Coward]

It's still a defined thing ... unicorns don't physically exist either. There's the physical universe and the conceptual universe (or mindspace)

Why is this an interesting story?

[Improv]

Wikipedia is getting new knowledge all the time. If you really want to find out what's new, just visit here. I don't understand why new Wikipedia entries are meaningful stories for slashdot.

Re:Why is this an interesting story?

[sharkdba]

...meet siuch a hostility...

A few negative (or somewhat negative) posts don't mean hostility. Note that /. is very diversified. You have a few science geeks, who whenever see a science article, whenever it's not a PhD thesis, will complain. That's OK, don't worry about them. There are a BUNCH of various tech geeks (myself included) who have a personal interest in various science topics, and who find summarizations in laymen language quite interesting. If a specific topic awakens deeper interest, there are numerous sources to go to.

Indian theoretical physicist

[Anonymous Coward]

Here is another Indian fellow. Amazing to see them from NASA to all top technical US universities to Microsoft to IBM to Oracle to Medical industry to hotel industry and there are just about a million of them in the country... And you thought they only are cheap labor. You would be surpised if you start looking at the top research institutions in the country. They are everywhere.... This might seem like a flamebait but most of IT guys think of them as cheap labor which in not necessarily true since they are involved in a lot of top research to silicon valley startups...

Re:Indian theoretical physicist

[Anonymous Coward]

Your comment isn't flamebait at all (accuracy should never be the subject of ire). The subcontinent produces many very talented scientists and engineers; the university at Lahore, for example, is easily on par with any American institute, and since most Indians have a very good idea of what real poverty is, they have an excellent work ethic.

There's also the fact that India's population is rapidly approaching 1 billion, so assuming that none are clever enough to do anything but drive taxis or operate cash registers could be considered racist. But then, America has a unique talent for being condesending (at best) or outright racist (at worst) when regarding other countries (except regarding the French, since they deserve it). But if you don't believe me, just search Slashdot for the phrase "towel head", and be prepared to be amazed by the levels of bigotry in this *international* forum supposedly populated by intelligent people. Or set your threshold low and look at all those "Gay Nigger Association" trolls.

Racism can be a lot more subtle than apartheid, and America always needs its bogeymen.

Re:I'm not sure

[Anonymous Coward]

>(Yes, to Americans who still believe what they learned
>at school - no, theories don't "promote to Law" at
>some point. They stay theories regardless of what
>they're named)

Another note to Americans. We are not all a bunch of jackasses like this guy.

linkipedia

[HansF]

Must be the highest link-to-word-ratio I've seen in a long time.

Re:I'm not sure

[lscotte]

All of science is "only a theory". (Yes, to Americans who still believe what they learned at school - no, theories don't "promote to Law" at some point. They stay theories regardless of what they're named).

Ah good. Then nobody will mind that I just float around now that we know gravity is simply a theory?