From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 01:06:20 PDT
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Jim Witte wrote:
> > 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])
Actually, if I were to pick up a last name for the next generation, I
would choose sothing meta. Like Kuhn. :)
Paul
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