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Knowing Everything

Posted by Michael Livingston in Academics on March 8th, 2010

Every now and then one of my classes — for mysterious reasons — will turn to a discussion of, well, Life, the Universe, and Everything. Usually this involves me giving an impromptu lecture on quantum physics and/or how very bitty we are in comparison to the Universe.

In honor of that, here’s a link to a nice summary of some of the currently leading candidates for a “Theory of Everything.” Love it.



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This entry was posted on Monday, March 8th, 2010, 11:00 am and is filed under Academics. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

  1. #1 by Anonymous - September 9th, 2010 at 09:04

  2. #2 by Karissa Page - March 10th, 2010 at 07:30

    When I was at the UR, my physics TA was a grad student specializing in String Theory, and every now and then we'd divert our attention away from our task at hand that usually involved boxes moving up ramps and other such wonderful Newtonian physics problems and talk about black holes and how when "things" get sucked into black holes they come out the other side "spaghetti-fied". Clearly, discussing the unknown and mystifying is more fun than pushing boxes up ramps or coefficients of friction.

  3. #3 by Michael Livingston - March 11th, 2010 at 16:05

    I wish I took such a class!

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