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January 09, 2006
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.
Read more on cnet here, by Declan McCullagh.
A good definition for "annoy" can be found on Answers.com here. Quite a wide range ah?
Just a ridiculous prohibition?
Let's move to deeply interesting (and highly controversial) matters with Leonard Susskind, one of the fathers (and prime discoverer) of String Theory, panning over his recent book. The video, on Edge.org is here and I highly recommend watching it as it depicts clearly at least the following:
1) how wildly open-minded one can be at 70
2) how bad David Gross and Edward Witten must feel about their whole carrier in lieu of the recent developments in String Theory (badly looking like a re-run of Einstein's God playing dice debating)
3) if we believe and embrace arms into Susskind territory we are (necessarily?) waving goodbye to mathematical physics as searching for certainty. Un-less, here comes Susskind hardcore view, the Theory predicts ONLY local landscapes with their own local laws BUT predicts ALL of them (10 power 500 or so).
Quantum Mechanics (re-born)?
Posted by lck at January 9, 2006 06:51 PM
Comments
Oh crap, I'll see ya in six to ten.
Posted by: zib at January 9, 2006 08:39 PM
