Program working for simplicity

[MTd2]

You people should open your eyes for the possible tsunami of new ideas coming from this meeting.

Here's the deal:

http://www.pctp.princeton.edu/pctp/Simplicity2014/Simplicity2014.html

And the program:

http://www.pctp.princeton.edu/pctp/Simplicity2014/Program-Simplicity-web.pdf

 

[strangerep]

You people should open your eyes [...]

Why the tone of frustration?

I've found that "people" here in the BTSM forum are typically quite open to considering new professionally-researched ideas.

 

[MTd2]

Hmm. Probably it's something miss in translation. I meant that people should look closely, I am being overly optimistic! Specially regarding the dark matter thing from Erik Verlinde. I vaguely remember a talk of his talking about dark matter being something of intermediate complexity between dark energy and matter, or something like this.

Well, he got over 5 million to support his research. I hope more money means that babies can be born faster!

 

[strangerep]

Well, he got over 5 million to support his research. I hope more money means that babies can be born faster!

That depends on how many attractive "secretaries" he hires and how much stamina he has...

Oh wait! You probably meant "baby ideas", not actual babies.

 

[MTd2]

I specially liked in the workshop how they put somones talking against specialists with completely opposed ideas.

“New physics without new energy scale”
Mikhail Shaposhnikov, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De
Lausanne, Switzerland
Commenter: Itzhak Bars, University of Southern California

“Renormalization and Weyl invariance”
Roberto Percacci, SISSA
Commenter: Neil Turok, Perimeter Institute

“Toward an Entropic Theory of Dark Matter.”
Erik Verlinde, University of Amsterdam
Commenter: Justin Khoury, University of Pennsylvania

And today, there's a 1 hour brainstorm session (2:30, if you include lunching!)

It would be good if Marcus could provide a background about the ideas which these people work with. He's good with this stuff.