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I've adapted this comment from Peter Woit's blog (about the announcement
http://gesalerico.ft.uam.es/strings07/ for the Strings '07 conference in Madrid): ...the emblem on the main page of the Strings ‘07 website
is a 1789 oil painting by Goya called THE BLIND CHICKEN
(La Gallina Ciega) or translated into English “Blind Man’s Buff”.
The blindfolded girl is in the center of a circle of dancers,
who elude her attempts to connect with them.
There is a sunset, the players are aristocrats, it is pretty but
inexplicably melancholy.
To get further information about the Strings ‘07 conference,
click on individual dancers in the circle.
http://gesalerico.ft.uam.es/strings07/
To me, the blindfolded young lady in the middle of the circle looks like an allegory of M-theory, something which so far has never been seen. She is surrounded by elusive entities joined in a ring by the duality of holding each other’s hands.
It seems to be an emblem of the Unknown M-theory surrounded by superstring possibilities.
It's a witty conference logo, one of the cleverest and most attractive ones I've seen.
The list of speakers at the conference is here:
http://gesalerico.ft.uam.es/strings07/040_scientific07_contents/041_speakers.htm
(thanks to Peter Woit for alerting us to the site!)
The idea of using a blindfolded aristocratic young woman as an emblem of an as yet undiscovered theory (believed to occupy the center of a circle of connected others) is remarkable!
click on individual dancers in the circle to get further information about the conference
a sympathetic view of string thinkers, in fact, could I guess be that they are like men trying to hit something moving with a stick, that something being a theory which they cannot see but believe is there---a groping image similar to what one sees in Goya's painting.
http://gesalerico.ft.uam.es/strings07/ for the Strings '07 conference in Madrid): ...the emblem on the main page of the Strings ‘07 website
is a 1789 oil painting by Goya called THE BLIND CHICKEN
(La Gallina Ciega) or translated into English “Blind Man’s Buff”.
The blindfolded girl is in the center of a circle of dancers,
who elude her attempts to connect with them.
There is a sunset, the players are aristocrats, it is pretty but
inexplicably melancholy.
To get further information about the Strings ‘07 conference,
click on individual dancers in the circle.
http://gesalerico.ft.uam.es/strings07/
To me, the blindfolded young lady in the middle of the circle looks like an allegory of M-theory, something which so far has never been seen. She is surrounded by elusive entities joined in a ring by the duality of holding each other’s hands.
It seems to be an emblem of the Unknown M-theory surrounded by superstring possibilities.
It's a witty conference logo, one of the cleverest and most attractive ones I've seen.
The list of speakers at the conference is here:
http://gesalerico.ft.uam.es/strings07/040_scientific07_contents/041_speakers.htm
(thanks to Peter Woit for alerting us to the site!)
The idea of using a blindfolded aristocratic young woman as an emblem of an as yet undiscovered theory (believed to occupy the center of a circle of connected others) is remarkable!
click on individual dancers in the circle to get further information about the conference
a sympathetic view of string thinkers, in fact, could I guess be that they are like men trying to hit something moving with a stick, that something being a theory which they cannot see but believe is there---a groping image similar to what one sees in Goya's painting.
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