Over on his blog Robert Helling made an imteresting comment on deconstruction. http://atdotde.blogspot.com/2005/03/deconstruction-help-sought_10.html . Does anyone have a...

I have made the following observations when reading this newsgroup: * the topics are of interest to a great number of people (as evidenced, e.g., by news coverage in the...

I am reading Aspinwall's "D-branes on Calabi-Yau Manifolds", hep-th/0403166. Aspinwall discusses Pi-stability and the Bridgeland conjecture on pp. 79. Unfortunately I cannot...

I recently suggested creating a frequently asked questions (FAQ's) repository for this newsgroup. With that in mind, I will now put the call out for lists of questions. In...

A few general questions and one specific on experimental verification approaches.. In the hierarchy of composition, does current theory speculate that strings (open / closed...

Lubos' blog entry on deconstruction made me have a closer look at this stuff, which I should have had long before. If I understand correctly a quiver can equivalently be...

We're happy to announce that Eric Zaslow, an associate professor of mathematics at the Northwestern University, has joined the team of the sci.physics.strings...

Would it be possible for the power of distributed computing help solve the complex equations of string theory? E.g: Google Compute

Imre Czovek Wrote: What caused the Big Bang? This is the same as asking why is there something and not nothing? But that question by its very form cannot have an answer....

I find this all very interesting but haven't read enough about it, and take a little comfort from the comment that niave questions might be helpful to others, so... is there...

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that if you'd like to discuss Physics, there is a website just for you! Advanced Physics Forums at www.advancedphysics.org was created...

http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/02/entropic-principle.html The anthropic principle has a new competitor. * hep-th/0502211 It's called the "entropic principle" even...

From Osher Doctorow (non-stringy text) Let's generalize Lie brackets as follows: 1) = x*y - y*x where * is any mathematical operation or expression...

What caused the Big Bang? I heard in the Elegant Universe film, that two (universe) membranes collision (in one point) gave such lots energies. But I have another idea with...

http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/02/tachyons-can-change-topology.html =================================================================== In the last 2 hours, Allan Adams just...

I just finished reading "the Elegant Universe" and am somewhat confused. There is a lengthy discussion of the consequences of string properties, including results of the...

HI, What difficulties must be overcome before we can do string theory in background black hole geometries? Thanks

Hi, I've heard casually in passing that there's dualities that allow string theory techniques to be applied to gauge theories like QCD, which might help with calculations? If...

Hi there. In Brian Greene's "The elegant universe" I read that string theory is supposed to be able to explain why the universe holds the properties that it has. It...

Lubos Motl wrote: .....It's the only known theory different from the old, incomplete framework of quantum field theory that can do everything good that the old...