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Imagining the Tenth Dimension

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[quote='BusNative;145475;4]Ask him...

Brian Greene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

...or check out his books. They're pretty cool.

Cool link though.[/quote]

Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963) is a theoretical physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi-Yau manifolds (concretely, relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point.
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Flop transitions have been an altogether too-frequent phenomenon in my life lately.:( Guess I need to work on my mirror symmetry a bit more.
 
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My physics teacher gave us Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene to read for some extra credit. I didn't read it, but we learned a good bit of what was in the book, and I'll tell you this--

Martins is right. LSD, pot, whatever... It's the only way. Seriously. Physics is so far out there...
 
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