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  • When Ms. Wertheim asked the organizer of the string-theory conference his opinion of one particularly dazzling talk, he enthused: Utterly splendid.

    On the Margins of Science Michael Shermer 2011

  • What kind of idiot thinks a literal interpretation of a horse-drawn document is even possible in a string-theory age?

    Think Progress » Turley: “There Will Be No One to the Right of Sam Alito on This Court” 2005

  • Peter Woit, noted blogger and string-theory gadfly, has written a book about his objections to string theory: Not Even Wrong, to be published next year by Jonathan Cape.

    Not Even Wrong Sean 2005

  • Last year, the Japanese physicist Masao Ninomiya and Danish string-theory pioneer Holger Bech Nielsen put forward the hypothesis that the Higgs boson was so "abhorrent" that it somehow caused a ripple in time that prevented its own discovery.

    FAZED Bubba 2010

  • Last year, the Japanese physicist Masao Ninomiya and Danish string-theory pioneer Holger Bech Nielsen put forward the hypothesis that the Higgs boson was so "abhorrent" that it somehow caused a ripple in time that prevented its own discovery.

    Technology Reviews, News Nick Hide 2010

  • Last year, the Japanese physicist Masao Ninomiya and Danish string-theory pioneer Holger Bech Nielsen put forward the hypothesis that the Higgs boson was so "abhorrent" that it somehow caused a ripple in time that prevented its own discovery.

    FAZED Bubba 2010

  • I just stand there vacantly staring into it as if expecting the margarine to stand up and begin explaining string-theory to me.

    Deus Ex Malcontent 2010

  • But suppose that once in a trillion times, the new wave pattern has a structure resembling the string-theory wave pattern of the material object that caused the digital signature in the first place?

    American Thinker 2010

  • Unless you sick another jank string-theory bikini on us, you are going to be in the final three.

    EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines Missy Schwartz 2010

  • Unless you sick another jank string-theory bikini on us, you are going to be in the final three.

    EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines Missy Schwartz 2010

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  • Haven't seen a real response yet. Have I mistaken this site for something different?

    January 23, 2010

  • Physics or women's swimwear?

    January 23, 2010

  • Gosh, there's an absolutely beautiful piece of classical music by Bach, one of my favorites, called Air on a G String. But I'm always embarrassed to call it that...I end up calling it Air from the Third Suite, which I guess could also be misinterpreted, but not nearly so readily.

    January 24, 2010