Victor at least spell Brian's last name right in your subject line.

This just in from Doctor Faustus:

On Feb 28, 2004, at 9:18 PM, Faustus wrote:

Dear Jack :

I will be mailing you the reprints of :

"On the variable fine structure constant, strings
and maximal-acceleration phase space relativity"
..... some reprints about Anti de Sitter space,
and Clifford algebras that may be useful ....

I've mentioned to ... once how fed-up I am of reading
the same techno-babble-****, over and over again, in
the hep-th/archives.

It is true that string theory has very nice
mathematics involved. But there are no fundamental new
physical ideas for a long time, let alone calculations
that can be verified and tested in the lab.

Even worse : they do NOT even know WHAT string theory
IS !!!! ....

Even worse they admit it and no one calls them on it. Talk about double
standards. Physics Today is like High School Cliques in the soft core
porno version of American Graffiti on the Shopping Nitwork Channel for
Elegant Tailors. ;-)

Strings, Supersymmetry, Supergravity...are more than
30 years old and after rivers of ink, not a single
experiment has verified it.

Take Connes' Noncommutative Geometry. It has been more
than 20 years. Many fancy books have appeared. After
you go through the tedious and boring chapters about
cyclic homology etc....and finish the book, you have a
very empty feeling that it all has been useless
because you cannot calculate anything that can be
tested in the laboratory.

This is all a hype. People think that by doing very
complicated academic mathematical exercises they are
going to discover new physics. This is not the way to
do it.

Now, I can understand Feynman's feelings about string
theory.

Hoist them, or rather, hang them by their own G-strings! ;-)


On Feb 27, 2004, at 11:18 PM, Victor Martinez wrote:

SAUL-PAUL:

1) GREAT! I can tell you're making fine use of Dr Greene's GREAT book
FABRIC OF THE COSMOS. Now, if we could only get the Doc to open up
Greene's terrific new book so he could get himself up-to-date on
leading-edge physics information like you, Captain Collins, Dr Puthoff,
Stan Friedman, Gary Bekkum, etc., already are! Working together, we can
bring the Doc up to speed!

2) Dr Sarfatti had queried you earlier about Greene's writings on mirror
symmetry, so here are some very useful sites for everyone to utilize.
Watch your mailbox next week,.. a small package is on its way via NWO
black helicopters! --

http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.ed...tadv/ssym.html

www.voting.ukscientists.com/greene2.html

The Official String Theory Web Site: Welcome to the Superstring Store!

http://superstringtheory.com/store/stringbooks.html

www.math.uiuc.edu/~katz/class/s03/ms.html

www.drury.edu/multinl/story.cfm?ID=1114&NLID=135

www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/greene.html

http://phys.columbia.edu/faculty/greene.htm


From: "S-P & M-M Sirag "
Date: February 27, 2004 5:09:32 PM PST
Subject: Brian Green, Mirror Symmetry & ADEX-theory


On Brian Greene & Mirror Symmetry:

In defense of Brian Greene's work in string theory I note the following.

Brian Greene and Ronen Plesser discovered a duality that became known as
mirror symmetry.

In the book *Mirror Symmetry and Algebraic Geometry* by David A. Cox and
Sheldon Katz (American Mathematical Society, 1999) we read:

"Early evidence for mirror symmetry of Calabi-Yau threefolds was given
by lists of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in weighted projective spaces (or their
quotients by finite groups). The Hodge numbers of these hypersurfaces,
mirror symmetry was demonstrated in [GPl] by first showing mirror symmetry
for certian Landau-Ginzburg theories ... and then relating these theories to
the sigma models of the [Calabi-Yau] hypersurfaces."

[GPl] is the reference: B. Greene and M.R. Plesser, Duality in Calabi-Yau
moduli space, Nucl. Phys. B 338 (1990), 15-37.

There are two other Greene references in the bibliography:

B.R. Green, C. Vafa & N.P. Warner, Calabi-Yau manifold and renormalization
group flows, Nucl. Phys. B 324 (1989), 371-390.

B.R. Green, M.R. Plesser & S.S. Roan, New constructions of mirror manifolds:
Probing moduli space far from Fermat points, in *Essays on mirror manifolds*
(S.-T. Yau, ed.), Internat. Press, Hong Kong, 1992, pp. 347-389.

Mirror Symmetry has become a hot topic in string theory. A recent tutorial
book on the this topic is"

*Mirror Symmetry* by Kentaro Hori, Sheldon Katz, Albrecht Klemm, Rahul
Pandharipande, Richard Thomas Cumrun VAfa, Ravi Vakil, and Eric Zaslow,
published by the American Mathematical Society and the Clay Mathematics
Institute (2003).

This book cites in addition to the Greene Plesser paper of 1990 two more
Greene coauthored papers:

B. Greene, D. Morrison, & A. Strominger, Black hole condensation and the
unification of string Vacua, Nucl. Phys. B451 (1995) 109, hep-th/9504145.

B. Greene & H. Ooguri, Geometry & quantum field theory: A brief
introduction, in *Mirror Symmetry II (B. Greene & S.-T. Yau, eds.), AMS/IP
Stud. Adv. Math. 1, AMS, Providence, RI, 1997, 3-27.

Although I have only recently started reading the two Mirror Symmetry books
(of 1999 & 2003), I am intrigued by the fact that the A-D-E classifications
(via the A-D-E Coxeter-Dynkin graphs) plays a big role in this topic. I
already knew that the 2-d superconformal field theories are A-D-E
classified. But it was news to me that the these theories correspond to
certain Landau-Ginzburg theories, and the correspondence is via the A-D-E
Thom-Arnold catastrophe germs. On page 337 of the *Mirror Symmetry* (2003)
book we read:

"It turns out that (2,2) superconformal theoris with c 3, or
equivalently D 1, can be classified and all correspond to Landau-Ginzburg
theories with quasi-homogeneous superpotential. Moreover they are in 1-1
correspondence with ADE singularities of C^2/Gamma where Gamma is a discrete
subgroup of SU(2)."

So the McKay correspondence of the subgroups of SU(2) with the ADE
Kac-Moody Lie algebras is also entailed in the subject of Mirror Symmetry.

I have long conjectured that the the A-D-E classifications will provide
the underlying mathematical structure for string theory and its later
development into M-theory, Mirror Symmetry (which is a kind of T-duality)
and so on. There are 20 some mathematical objects already A-D-E classified
(including now a potent kind of Landau-Ginzburg superpotential). I call the
study of all the A-D-E classifications and their applications to mathematics
and physics by the name ADEX-theory.

I will attach a paper I wrote for ISSO and ISEP in 2000. I see that it needs
some updating after I have absorbed this (new to me) Mirror Symmetry stuff.

Apparently Brian Greene's peers consider him to be an important early
developer of the Mirror Symmetry. Perhaps his next book will be a popular
description of these ideas.

Nuff said ;-)

Saul-Paul


Subject: Peer Review of Brian Greene's books
Date: Thu, Feb 26, 2004, 9:21 PM

[Jack Sarfatti wrote]

I received this from someone active in the field. I did not write it. I
am merely passing it on.

[Anonymous physicist wrote]

"About Brian Greene's new book.... it is nothing but another sales
pitch for the string mafia.

All the experiments looking for signals of Supersymmetry have failed.
This was a big blow to many. This is all a hype to get more money.
I have worked on Supersymmetry and Supergravity for a while, and
published papers in reputable journals on that topic. It is a nice
academic exercise.

The person who wrote :

BRIAN GREENE is widely regarded for a number of groundbreaking
discoveries in superstring theory.

This is bull**** and simply not true !!! . I have followed the string
theory developments for the past 20 years and I can tell you that
Brian Greene has not done what it says above. It is propaganda. You
just have to read Susskind's article about the history of strings to
figure out that Brian Greene has not done much but to write popular
books and act as the string theory sales man. ...
... It is very simple :
Just look at Brian' Greene publications in the past 20 years.
He wrote a nice review on Calabi-Yau and String Geometry which I read,
however this work was mainly done by others
Aspinwall, Morrison, Candelas, Vafa, Yau, Strominger, Witten, ....

What a bunch of lies and bull**** ! This is not to say that if Brian
Greene had devoted himself to
research, instead of writing popular books, he would not have
accomplished great things.
Money, money is very tempting."

Jack Sarfatti wrote:
[snip]
Nothing

Hey Jack-o, men wear T-straps or banana hammocks. Girls and
transvestites wear G-strings. Now you know twice as much as you did
two sentences ago.

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/eotvos.htm
(Do something naughty to physics)