nPostednon February 9, 2016
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n BriannGreene has worked on mirror symmetry and the flop transition, and hendeals with Calabi-Yau manifolds, relating the conifold to one of itsnorbifolds.
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Ifnyou aren’t sure what any of that means, that makes two of us.nActually, given the fact that my spell check program doesn’t knownmany of those words, I suspect that makes billions and billions of usnthat don’t know what that means!
Ifnyou aren’t sure what any of that means, that makes two of us.nActually, given the fact that my spell check program doesn’t knownmany of those words, I suspect that makes billions and billions of usnthat don’t know what that means!
Okay, let’s get down tonthings we DO get: Brian Greene, born on this day in 1963, is antheoretical physicist and string theorist. He is also a professor atnColumbia University, an author of books for the general public,nchairman of the World Science Festival, and occasional TV personalitynon The Big Bang Theory and PBS specials.
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nStringntheory is a possible explanation for why there is gravity, along withnother deep questions of physics and cosmology. String theorists hope their theory can join the theories of Relativity and of Quantum Mechanics, the physics of the very large and the physics of the very small. Basically, it is anTheory of Everything.
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n(Inthink!)
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nActually,nseveral sources explain that string theory is a theory of quantum gravity, which is the field of physics that is trying to describenthe force of gravity according to the principles of quantumnmechanics.
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nIfnyou want to know more about string theory, check out this website:nString Theory for Kids (and Clever Adults).
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nHerenis a super-short explanation of string theory…and here is today’s birthday honoree, Brian Greene himself, talking about string theory.
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Glaciologistnand aerial photographer Erich Dagobert von Drygalski’s birthday
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