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15 Oct 22 : 52 | Thread: Oskar Klein & Murray Gell-Mann: birthdays. Post by Anon You forgot to mention that Gell-Mann has joined the 64 other living Nobel laureates who have endorsed the Obama-Biden ticket over McCain-Palin: http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/10/three_200 8_nobe.html I guess that just leaves Weinberg... LM: Dear (or, more precisely, cheap)... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 25 minutes ago |
15 Oct 22 : 04 | Thread: Stringy H-field alternative to dark matter?. Post by anon. Wouldn't you expect this field to be very massive, generically? If it's light, isn't it constrained by e.g. fifth-force experiments? LM: I agree if you interpret the field as a space-dependent axion. That would have to be astronomically light. I have personally abandoned all these H-field models... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 72 minutes ago |
15 Oct 20 : 26 | Thread: Physics Nobel Prize: Nambu, Kobayashi, Maskaw.... Post by Dario de... Hi Lubos, I apologize for using you and this thread as a cavy, but it was just an experiment. I took the occasion of the Nobel prize because what it has the ring of truth about it. I am studying the reaction of people to provocations in forums and threads, to understand social mechanisms. So I use... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 3 hours ago |
15 Oct 20 : 26 | Thread: Stringy H-field alternative to dark matter?. Post by Cynthia Now if this stringy field of unknown (but not dark) matter was stretched out by inflation to form a macroscopic field of cosmic strings, then stringy particles of unknown (but not dark) matter at the microscopic level are likely to be distorted beyond detection. But if these stringy particles... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 3 hours ago |
15 Oct 19 : 39 | Thread: Stringy H-field alternative to dark matter?. Post by Kenny Dear Lubos, great blog! You mentioned that "the most important evidence for dark matter are the galaxy rotation curves" but in this point I have to tell you that this is simply not true. If the stringy model is right, it has to be able to explain much more than the good old rotation curves of... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 4 hours ago |
15 Oct 18 : 50 | Thread: Stringy H-field alternative to dark matter?. Post by You Know Who Better tell astro-ph, that's who. ;) Was this really posted in the right archive? Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 4 hours ago |
15 Oct 18 : 03 | Thread: Stringy H-field alternative to dark matter?. Post by Benjamin So is this saying that string theory can have some effect on macroscopic events after all, without having to build an accelerator incomparably more powerful than at CERN? Better tell you know who! Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 5 hours ago |
15 Oct 16 : 32 | Thread: Imploding markets. Post by David The context of my statements concerning Obama were that no free market capitalist would have any faith in Obama’s economic policy because he is, from detailed observation of his associations, obviously very socialist and even anti American. McCain wants to change Washington, Obama wants to change... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 7 hours ago |
15 Oct 15 : 00 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Moptop Speaking for the far right... I think that bailing out Lehman Bros might have been tactically the right thing to do, but at some point, these guys have to stop believing that they can take egregious risk and mommy taxpayer will always be there to bail them out. The lesson to be drawn, were Lehman... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 8 hours ago |
15 Oct 14 : 16 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by rafa Dear Luboš, sorry for being off-topic, there's a big controversy in Spain about Kundera and the Respekt report. He is a writer with an enormous success overhere and I'd be glad to know your opinion which I'm sure will be of higher quality than what I'm reading in my local press (with a yes/no,... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 9 hours ago |
15 Oct 13 : 32 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Serguei The reason behind the credit (and all that icelandic "success") is very simple: Iceland is an offshore, and very big russian money are flowing through it. Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 10 hours ago |
15 Oct 12 : 09 | Thread: Stringy H-field alternative to dark matter?. Post by Arun This doesn't seem to be able to explain e.g. the bullet cluster. LM: Although it sounds natural, I actually disagree. The bullet cluster only seems to falsify some MOND-like theories with modified gravity but no new field. It is far from obvious whether new fields are gone, too. A very detailed... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 11 hours ago |
15 Oct 09 : 25 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Jason Hi Lubos et al, There's a tendentious "climate change" post and responses that you might want to see over at the New Scientist blog. Or participate in, since this the thread is active. Why would a botanist deny climate change? Jason Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 14 hours ago |
15 Oct 09 : 25 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Gene Day Cynthia, You've got a point but Paulson's Emperor act is really by default. I have never seen such a complete lack of leadership in this country and someone has to do it. I think it just fell on Hank's shoulders; he didn't really want it. He sure as hell doesn't need the aggravation and would... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 14 hours ago |
15 Oct 04 : 17 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Peter F. (This response is a transplant from another very similar and recent TRF-thread. I do partly because Luboš made me cringe, above, by suggesting Lehman Brothers should have been saved, and partly because I am so slow.) LM wrote in response to Benjamin: Dear Benjamin, your comment is clearly irony,... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 19 hours ago |
15 Oct 03 : 21 | Thread: Imploding markets. Post by Gene Day Reid, It is true that in 1969, when Obama was eight years old, Bill Ayres participated in a successful plot to blow up a statue. He was later acquitted in what may or may not have been a just verdict but at least no one was killed or injured by his youthful stupidity. Two years earlier John... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 20 hours ago |
15 Oct 02 : 17 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Gene Day Cynthia, I don't think Paulson let Lehman Brothers die because of loyalty to Goldman Sachs. He was under intense political pressure from both the far left and the far right; these forces had his entire program stalled in Congress at the time and he was understandably desperate. It was really a... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 21 hours ago |
15 Oct 01 : 35 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by joel I don't what he really did. They did delay his award for many years, then gave it to him alone. Just more politics. Did he say that large markets give an advantage to producers? That was his insight? Adolph Hitler was very firm on this point as well. That's why he was no envious of the USA, for... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 22 hours ago |
15 Oct 00 : 53 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Charles Tye Part of the problem for very many private individuals in Iceland is that they have taken out mortgages, car loans etc in currencies other than their own. This has given them lower interest rates at the expense of a gigantic currency exposure which has now hit them very hard. For many people, their... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 22 hours ago |
15 Oct 00 : 12 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Reid The 51 state flag would be very controversial because the star arrangement has a 5 axis. To the left this looks like the Pentagon and is code for militarism. To the right the 5 axis is code for satanic pentacles. I think a 51 state flag will be 6 rows of stars 9-8-9-8-9-8. When we get to 52 it... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 23 hours ago |
14 Oct 23 : 26 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Cynthia Whether Iceland is a place of beauty or a land of he-men, anyone who slides around on ice skates all day long would love to have a piece of Iceland. All joking aside, I'm sure that many of the G-20 members have got their eyes on Iceland. But because all of them have their own credit freezes to... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 24 hours ago |
14 Oct 21 : 48 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Rae Ann If I had Warren Buffet's and Microsoft's money I'd buy Iceland. ;-) Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 25 hours ago |
14 Oct 20 : 57 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Gene Day Note that UBS Financial, the bank's private investment arm, is an SBU (Strategic Business Unit) of UBS. Now, all six permutations are covered. LM: All six, Gene? With all my immense respect, I am gonna call bullshit (BS) on you: BSU. :-) It was the missing permutation. Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 26 hours ago |
14 Oct 20 : 09 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Reid A $5 billion loan from Russia will not solve Iceland's problem. I estimate their $100 billion banking sector may have $30 billion in loses mostly from British real estate. Any rescue of Iceland would presumably be loans which would be a multiple of 2 to 4 times GDP. That is a politically... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 27 hours ago |
14 Oct 19 : 23 | Thread: Will Russia save Iceland?. Post by Gene Day It appears that USB (Union Bank of Switzerland) is in grave difficulty and that it enormous size makes it impossible for it to be saved by the little Swiss government. This is a huge threat to Switzerland and, in fact, to the entire western world. It is essential to our own future that we and... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 28 hours ago |
14 Oct 18 : 38 | Thread: Nobel prize winners who didn't sign the lette.... Post by I just came back from 3 weeks holidays in the west of USA . Last 4 days in San Francisco . The pro Obama annoying propaganda was really getting on my nerves . At one moment I was followed by a middle age semi crazy very politically correct woman who wanted to make me sign some pro Obama petition... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 29 hours ago |
14 Oct 17 : 54 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by Cynthia This parable by Krugman, which he wrote back in 1998, is spot on at describing what is taking place in today's wild and wacky world of finance... http://www.pkarchive.org/theory/iceage.html [Let me update it a little bit by saying that the Clan of Cave Bulls have somehow figured out how to slice... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 29 hours ago |
14 Oct 17 : 11 | Thread: Imploding markets. Post by Rae Ann David, look at Obama's church's Mission Statements and their "Black Value System". "A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA." "Pledge Allegiance to All Black Leadership Who Espouse and Embrace the Black Value System." I'm not making up this stuff. ... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 30 hours ago |
14 Oct 17 : 00 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by Rae Ann One of the articles I read said something about Krugman's "brilliant" idea to "drop the assumption of diminishing returns". Well, HarryEagar, isn't that pretty much the source of all our current economic woes? All these people dropping the assumption of diminishing returns and then behaving as if... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 30 hours ago |
14 Oct 15 : 56 | Thread: Imploding markets. Post by Reid Harry, I am correct and you are wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett 1988: (58 years old) * Buffett began buying stock in Coca-Cola Company, eventually purchasing up to 7 percent of the company for $1.02 billion. It would turn out to be one of Berkshire's most lucrative... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 31 hours ago |
14 Oct 15 : 45 | Thread: Imploding markets. Post by Moptop "Her rhetoric is making it dangerous for Obama." Is there any viscous trope from the Obama campaign that Gordon won't swallow whole and repeat ad nausium? No. The fact is that Obama felt perfectly comfortable working with this guy, and comes from a world where this guys's views are widely... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 32 hours ago |
14 Oct 14 : 40 | Thread: Imploding markets. Post by David Gene, respond to what I said, not to the grammar. Nothing was a rant. Proper investigation would confirm what I said...Obama’s associations matter if he shares the same philosophic and political goals, some of which are the goal of overthrowing the US from within and remaking it in their... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 33 hours ago |
14 Oct 14 : 06 | Thread: Imploding markets. Post by David Obama’s associations matter if he shares the same philosophic and political goals, some of which are the goal of overthrowing the US from within and remaking it in their socialist / communist image. If he does, then beyond any doubt these associations matter! Obama called these associations,... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 33 hours ago |
14 Oct 09 : 24 | Thread: Observables in quantum gravity. Post by Luboš Motl Dear hep student, thanks for your question. But what you refer to as a "definition" of S-matrix is not a definition. It is a particular method to calculate the S-matrix in theories where a Hamiltonian exists. But in quantum gravity, no bulk Hamiltonian exists, as you correctly wrote. The S-matrix... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 38 hours ago |
14 Oct 06 : 43 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by Luke Lea Human behavior is such a labile thing, the notion of modeling it with differential and integral calculus is, to say the least, questionable. But these guys just ASSUME it is possible -- that is step number one -- and then they go on to assume that uncertainties are normally distributed. Scientism... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 41 hours ago |
14 Oct 06 : 08 | Thread: Imploding markets. Post by Harry Eagar Reid, as usual, you don't know what you are talking about. Buffett did not start in the '60s, he started in the '50s, and in the manner I said. Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 41 hours ago |
14 Oct 06 : 02 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by Harry Eagar Considering where the combination of Reaganomics and Mugabenomics has gotten us, I'd have thought you guys would be more circumspect about needling Krugman, who was, after all, correct. Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 41 hours ago |
14 Oct 05 : 40 | Thread: Observables in quantum gravity. Post by hep student Hi Lubos, Very interesting as usual. One, maybe silly (still in the PhD.), question: If you dont have a global definition of time (like in AdS since it is no globally hyperbolic) how can you define an S matrix (where the interaction hamiltonian is integrated from minus infity to plus infinity). Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 42 hours ago |
14 Oct 04 : 50 | Thread: Setting the right priorities means to forget .... Post by Howard Rae Ann: The quiet sun and cooling has already been detected. If cooling continues, will be credited to the decline in carbon emissions from the slowing global economy. Gore's prayers to Gaia seem to be paying off for him. Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 42 hours ago |
14 Oct 04 : 03 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by These confirm my hypothesis that the CDO models were using arbitrary correlation matrices. About revised assumptions on deriving correlation coefficients Jan 15, 2008: http://www2.standardandpoors.com/portal/site/sp/en/us/page.article/4,5,5, 1,1148450739378.html The revised correlation... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 43 hours ago |
14 Oct 03 : 55 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by Gene Day What is happening goes far beyond the US subprime crisis. This is obvious from the lightening speed at which the contagion spread, especially to Europe. That Europeans understood this is shown by the fact that many European countries have quickly adopted more extreme measures than has Washington. ... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 43 hours ago |
14 Oct 02 : 49 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by Benjamin Yes, irony. That's the exact word. Or maybe the same kind of 'theorizing' that went into global warming. You once said that not all Physics Ph.D.'s were up to your standards. :-) Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 44 hours ago |
14 Oct 00 : 51 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by Rae Ann Thanks Lubos! :-) I liked your comment at econlog, and it really does look like plain common sense as you explained it. However, I question his addition of the Detroit auto industry as one with 'increasing returns'. Does Krugman's "theory" explain why some of these industries begin to have... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com 46 hours ago |
13 Oct 22 : 56 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by sawspike "This is just more Nobel committee meddling in US elections." I totally agree. Anywayz thx for posting great blog. Lisa Dubois Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com |
13 Oct 21 : 18 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by Rae Ann Do you think that Krugman will try to claim that his Prize is the cause of the market rally today? ;-) LM: I just wanted to claim it myself. ;-) We're on the same frequency. Giving USD 1 million to a leftist partisan every day would surely be cheaper than a USD 700 billion bailout. Incidentally,... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com |
13 Oct 20 : 26 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by Since Krugman is a reader of TRF, I am wondering how long it will take them to allow this comment to pass their moderators "I suspect the crises was fueled by flawed methodology in the derivation of correlation matrixes used in the Monte Carlo models used in the determination of default curves. ... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com |
13 Oct 19 : 34 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by Mephisto Economics is an interresting subject. On the one hand, they try to find the laws, by which the markets are governed and they try to mathematicize these laws. But it´s not so easy. A market is just a voluntary exchange of goods and services performed by people. But people are governed by the laws of... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com |
13 Oct 18 : 45 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by rafa dear Luboš, Paul wrote in his book Geography & Trade that "economics tend to follow the line of least mathematical resistance" ;-) and talking about economy "models" he wrote too: The profession puts those aspects that can not be modeled on one side He is talking of course about economic "models"... Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com |
13 Oct 18 : 00 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by J Yes, I'm sure he was awarded the nobel to stick it to the Bush administration and not due to the tens of thousands of citations his work has received (try entering "Krugman" on google scholar...) and the fundamental theoretical contributions he made to one of the central topics in economics. Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com |
13 Oct 17 : 16 | Thread: Economics Nobel Memorial Prize: Paul Krugman. Post by nick Each people have an own talent to make him successful in life. Source : Comments for lumidek - HaloScan.com |
