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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 04:22 PM EDT |
Oracle-Google jury close to verdict; 'impasse' on one question
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 05:34 PM EDT |
To get to the bottom of it all, Roger Penrose insists, physicists
must force themselves to grapple with the greatest riddle of them all: the
relationship between the rules that govern fundamental particles and the rules
that govern the big things—like us—that those particles make up. In his powwow
with DISCOVER contributing editor Susan Kruglinksi, Penrose did not flinch from
questioning the central tenets of modern physics, including string theory and
quantum mechanics. Physicists will never come to grips with the grand theories
of the universe, Penrose holds, until they see past the blinding distractions of
today’s half-baked theories to the deepest layer of the reality in which we
live.
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When physicists finally understand the core of quantum
physics,
what do you think the theory will look like?
I think it will
be beautiful.
Susan Kruglinksi,
Discover Magazine
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Roger Penrose [Wikipedia] [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Ed L. on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 08:51 PM EDT |
| Can't she get a date?
Ars Technica has interesting post. Seems
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has a consulting gig with David Willetts, the UK's
Minister of State for Universities and Science. Willets was pretty blunt about
access to government-funded research, saying, "As taxpayers put their money
towards intellectual inquiry, they cannot be barred from then accessing it."
But publications are only part of the story, and Willetts intends
to focus on the rest of the research—the underlying data, things that don't get
published, etc. He intends to set up a portal that will list every government
funded research, and provide access to their papers, any databases they've
created, etc. To make sure the information is easy to maintain, modify, and
share, the UK is setting up a group that will be advised by Wikipedia's Jimmy
Wales.
Its an interesting article, highlighting Open Science in
both US and UK.
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Real Programmers mangle their own memory. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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