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Science vs. Spirituality: Deepak Chopra And Leonard Mlodinow Discuss ‘War Of The Worldviews’
Article linked in Title. The debate between science and spirituality is framed as a knock down fight for truth with winner take all. But does it have to be that way? Deepak Chopra is a physician and one of the most highly regarded spiritual teachers in the world; and Leonard Mlodinow teaches at Cal Tech…
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Purpose of the Compton Lecture Series
April 8The 63rd Compton Lecture Series, 2006 through June 3, 2006, 11:00 a.m. Sean at cosmic variance point to this series of lectures that are being presented each year and in this series the entitled is called, “String Theory: With a View Towards Reality” which will be presented by Nicholas Halmagyi, McCormick Fellow, Enrico Fermi…
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Roots, and the Rings of History
The jump from conventional field theories of point-like objects to a theory of one-dimensional objects has striking implications. The vibration spectrum of the string contains a massless spin-2 particle: the graviton. Its long wavelength interactions are described by Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. Thus General Relativity may be viewed as a prediction of string theory!…
