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."

Comments

Wrong site?

[dotancohen]

Cosmology, Superstring Theory, Quantum Gravity,...

For a minute there my subconscious thought that I had browsed to a women's magazine by accident...

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.

Re:what's old is new again

[dotancohen]

Technically you can "see" the strings, since in string theory every elementary particle is a string. In string theory, any time you detect an electron or a photon, you're looking at a string. It's just that they're so small, we may never be able to tell that they're actually strings and not point particles.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understood it the particles are strings in x dimensions, and in the superplane of our 3d existence they appear as points. Just as a line passing through a plane appears as a point on the plane.

High in his Transylvanian castle

[David Gerard]

At this point, Lubos Motl, high in his Transylvanian crag-side castle, let out a shout of anger, causing even his henchmen to scatter. "SMOOOOO-LINNNNN!"