Perimeter Institute Launches Modern Physics Resource

An anonymous reader writes "You can find six new online sources of info about hot topics in modern physics at the 'What We Research' outreach page of Perimeter Institute. The info includes text, graphics and online presentations dealing with Cosmology, Superstring Theory, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Foundations, Quantum Information and Particle Physics. The resource section at the bottom of each page recommends a wealth of interesting online lectures by some famous scientists. PI is an independent, nonprofit scientific research and outreach organization."

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Web page is wrong

[mangu]

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.

what's old is new again

[Potor]

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.