Baez week #207 is out (Dublin GR17 report)

[marcus]

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week207.html

 

[chroot]

Or read it right here on PF:

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=36781

- Warren

 

[marcus]

Or read it right here on PF:

Right you are! I first read it on PF, in fact. But the indentation
showing which blocks were direct quotes from hawking showed
up clearly in the original at Baez website so I decided to link to that. It is a
real convenience, I must say to have SPR readily available at PF!

 

[marcus]

BTW a piece that came out recently and should be of special interest to String Theory watchers was a memoir
by Sasha Polyakov

http://arxiv.org/hep-th/0407209

Confinement and Liberation
A. M. Polyakov
20 pages


"This is a review of topics which haunted me for the last 40 years, starting with spontaneous symmetry breaking and ending with gauge/string/space-time correspondence. While the first part of this article is mostly historical, the second contains some comments, opinions and conjectures which are new. This work is prepared for the volume ' Fifty Years of the Yang- Mills Theory' "

 

[selfAdjoint]

I have been going through Polyakov's memoir, pointed to it by Peter Woit's link, and I am deeply impressed with the man and his work. That book "Fifty Years of Yang-Mills Theory" is going to be a must-buy. Imagine having the collected technical reminiscences of the Argonauts!