From: Jim Witte (jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us)
Date: Sun Sep 12 2004 - 21:05:04 PDT
> So, if the above is the case, shouldn't the code name be "Agent Smith"
Nah. Newton came up with the equation for gravity. Einstein
redefined gravity. I'm thinking maybe whatever's next should be named
after someone connected with string theory. Possibilies are Dienes
(inventor of 'string theory phenomenology' [1]), Glashow (coinventor of
SU(5) theory [2]), Calabi-Yau (mathematical spaces involved in
vompactification of "extra" dimensions in string theory [3]), or Greene
(after Brian Greene [4], author of The Elegant Universe, Fabric of the
Cosmos, and "the only theoretical physicist to have groupies.." [in a
profile in some Scientific American])
Jim
[1]
http://www.physics.arizona.edu/physics/news/matters/winter99/
headlines.html
[2] http://superstringtheory.com/store/qpbooks2.html
[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702155
http://thew02.physik.uni-bonn.de/~netah/cy.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Calabi-YauSpace.html
[4] http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702155
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