I wish you all a good start into the year 2007, whether you are with your family or on your own, whether you are on a sunny beach or stuck in snow knee-deep.
Sabine
Most interesting posts of the year (as measured by number of comments):
- The Principle of Finite Imagination (May 15th)
- Nonlocality (May 22nd)
- Science and Democracy I (June 12th)
- Science and Democracy II (June 27th)
- Stupid Title List (July 6th)
- Extra Dimensions (July 8th)
- Peter Woit's Not Even Wrong (July 10th)
- Neutrinos for Beginners (July 17th)
- Thoughts on the Anthrophic Principle (July 21st)
- Lee Smolin's Trouble with Physics (Aug 2nd)
- Micro Black Holes (Sep 22nd)
- The Inverse Problem (Oct 4th)
- Does String Theory explain Heavy Ion Physics? (Oct. 11st)
- The End of Physics? (Oct. 15th)
- Dark Matter (Oct. 22nd)
- More on AdS/CFT and RHIC (Nov 23rd)
- Book Cover Physics (Dec 3rd)
- Deformed Special Relativity (Dec 4th)
- The Satire Strikes Back (Dec 24th)
- Anomalous Alignments in the CMB (Dec 26th)
- "You only see what your eyes want to see
How can life be what you want it to be
You're frozen
When your heart's not open
You're so consumed with how much you get
You waste your time with hate and regret
You're broken
When your heart's not open
[...]
Love is a bird, she needs to fly
Let all the hurt inside of you die
You're frozen
When your heart's not open"
~Madonna, Frozen
Hello!
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My blog http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1458288172
Can i make friends with you ?
And i want to say Happy new year!
Stefan and Bee, best wishes to you both for the year to come, and congatulations on having an amazing Blog, paul.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Bee & Stefan.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to both for offering your hearts and minds to the community in this blog.
The Principle of Finite Imagination is indeed your best post Bee.
I hope 2007 will be the year you will be able to reject finite imagination and propose its replacement - a principle that could help bring a fresh degree of unity or direction in foundation of physics. In crisis there are opportunities. Opportunities are grasped by fresh minds, deeply out-of-the-box thinking. Rise above the mathematical clutters and human noises, and ask the questions others won't dream.
I wish your time at PI will be most happy and rewarding.
Happy New Year to you too!
ReplyDeleteDear Bee and Stefan, many best wishes for a happy New Year! May it be a great year ahead for the two of you for research and for blogging and painting and all the arts of life!
ReplyDeleteLikewise to all your readers!
Happy New Year, Bee and Stephan!
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Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteI think this post should have made the list also:
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2006/09/pencils-black-holes-and-klein-paradox.html
Yikes... I meant "Stefan", not "Stephan". Sorry!
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Happy new year and thanks for posting the best of 2006. I was inspired by your Science and Democracy II and I posted some of my own thoughts here:
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I think most of your longer posts are publication quality and well researched and eloquently written pieces. I congratulate you for raising the bar in science blogging. Best science writing on the web!
Dear all :-)
ReplyDeletethank you very much for all the wishes and the encouraging comments!
Clifford: thank you, and don't mind - I am quite often refered to as Stephan, it was a common way of spelling my name :-)
Chinmaya, thanks that you liked the pencil post. As Sabine has mentioned, some posts to which you have invested some time of investigation and thinking often don't get much feedback, while others, written in a casual way, are flooded with comments. So it's always rewarding to hear that someone read and liked a longer, non-controversial post :-)
All the best, Stefan
Dear All,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the nice words :-) It's very encouraging to see you like our blog.
Dear Dark-Matter
I also like the Finite Imagination post best :-) 'Rising above the mathematical clutter' of other people's papers is a perfect description of how I spend my days...
Dear Rae-Ann,
Always nice to have you around! Have a good New Year :-)
Dear Clifford,
Stephan instead of Stefan is indeed a typo that isn't even a mistake, since the 'ph' and the 'f' are often used similarly. (Though I think German teachers might mark it in read, everybody who reads it would understand it), e.g. 'Photo' and 'Foto', 'Delphin' and 'Delfin' etc.
'Steven' probably also falls into the same category... Most Americans pronounce it the same way anyhow. (The correct pronunciation of the German 'St' starts with a soft 'sch' like in 'shit' -- its the same for the 'st' in 'Einstein')
Dear Arun,
I think you've become one of our most reliable commenters, and you've always something interesting to say. Thanks for being around! And I am trying to do more research this year... Best,
B.