2001 Revisited:

December 21, 2006

Strings Attached

From a New York Times review on Monday, Dec. 18, 2006, of the play "Strings"--

The three main characters "spend much of the play discussing quantum
mechanics, string theory and Schrödinger’s Cat experiment....

Ms. Buggé's frequently clever script makes the audience feel smart
by offering up fairly recognizable literary references (from, among
other things, T. S. Eliot's 'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and
William Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey'). But the play suffers from
abrupt, sometimes motivation-free exits and entrances."

As does life itself.

From Log24 on 6/20:

The Conjecture:

Preludes to
Last Summer's
String Theory
Conference

Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"

Let us go and make our visit.

-- T. S. Eliot

On Tuesday evening, the schedule says "Prof. Yau present his new
research result," which presumably will be about the proof of the
Poincare conjecture.

-- Peter
Woit, June 18, 2006

Would it have been worth while,

To have bitten off the matter
with a smile,

To have squeezed the universe
into a ball

To roll it toward some
overwhelming question....

-- T. S. Eliot

Yau rated the conjecture as one of the major mathematical puzzles of the 20th Century.

-- Xinhua
News, June 4, 2006

Five years have passed;
five summers, with the length
Of five long winters!

-- William Wordsworth

Five years ago
on this date:

There is one story and one story only