Talking Heads

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Clifford
on August 23, 2009
in Los Angeles, cosmology, research, science, string theory and work
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bloggingheads_snapOn Friday I was involved in an interesting conversation in an unusual format. It was a chat with cosmologist Anthony Aguirre at UCSC, and it was all about research in aspects of cosmology and of string theory, touching on issues such as the nature of quantum gravity, the Anthropic principle, whether the universe really had a beginning (and what that means), theories of everything (and what that means), and so forth. It was a lot of fun and may be of interest to you. It was for bloggingheads.tv, and you can find it here with some helpful jumping in points for those who don’t want to watch the whole hour.

-cvj

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  1. 1 adam
    August 23, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    it was a pleasure listening to your ‘diavlog,’ professor. here’s hoping you appear on bloggingheads some more.

    and it was pretty funny when prof. aguirre inquired “…so do they still have strings in string theory?”…which isn’t as silly of a question as i would have thought.

  2. 2 Clifford
    August 23, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    :)

    Thanks!

    -cvj

  3. 3 Kortney
    August 25, 2009 at 11:12 am

    Very educational discussion, well spoken delivery of information!
    It all makes perfect sense to the novice listener.
    Thanks for sharing a link to higher learning!

  4. 4 Milton
    August 27, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    Anthony Aguirre is an associate professor at UCSC not UCSD.

  5. 5 Clifford
    August 28, 2009 at 12:06 am

    Thanks! - fixed!

    -cvj

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