Les uns liront peu & s'abandonneront à des recherches qui seront nouvelles ou qu'ils prendront pour telles ; les autres, manouvriers incapables de rien produire, s'occuperont à feuilleter jour & nuit ces volumes, & à en séparer ce qu'ils jugeront digne d'être recueilli & conservé
Mark your calendars for this Jan 10: @NYUADInstitute is hosting a theoretical physics public event with talks by @CumrunV from @Harvard and Juan Maldacena & Nima Arkani-Hamed from @the_IAS + discussion moderated by ME! This is an unmissable event, register!https://t.co/jSbHb1VuIa
@ahron_maline Now I'm not fully convinced that "something like that must apply in general" but that would be great. So maybe the IR and the local physics aren't independent in the presence of gravity...
#EdWitten
What that man can do with little pieces of fundamental physics wisdom scattered across 50 years of litterature, is just absolutely unbelievable.
https://t.co/MHkVcqGPKl
@ahron_maline You should also check [23].
These 2 papers contributed significantly to the origin of my tweet: they are the intriguing (to me) but not very well known recent papers that Ed seems to know everything about.
There's another wonder out there, written by another wonderman, #CumrunVafa:
https://t.co/nNbFNonojt
These 250 pages lectures are the closest you can get from a modern textbook on #QuantumGravity, including all the string theoretic background, up to the swampland program.
The focus on the landscape is written by Monica Jinwoo Kang, with additional material from Nathan Benjamin Agmon. The focus on the swampland is written by Alek Bedroya. I did not read these yet, but I'll keep you informed.
The clarity of Cumrun's explanations, always going right to the point by the shortest path and the fluidity of his arguments are the driving forces of this masterpiece.