Superstrings could add gravitational cacophony to universe's chorus

University of Washington ^ | Monday, January 8, 2007 | Office of News and Information

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Many physicists consider a complex and sometimes-controversial premise called string theory to be a leading candidate to unify their understanding of the four basic forces of nature -- gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong. String theory is sometimes criticized for being untestable or even unscientific, but some versions now predict an exotic behavior with observable effects: the formation of cosmic superstrings, narrow tubes of energy left from the beginning of the universe that have been stretched to enormous lengths by the expansion of the universe, said UW cosmologist Craig Hogan... "They're so light that they can't have any effect on cosmic structure, but they create this bath of gravitational waves just by decaying," he said.

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Boy genius Chiang Ti Ming laid to rest
08 Jan 2007
Rizalman Hammim
New Straits Times

SEREMBAN, MON: BOY genius Chiang Ti Ming was laid to rest today at the Jalan Sikamat Christian Cemetery. Chiang, 29, died on Saturday morning. At the funeral, family members refused to talk to the media.

Chiang made the headlines in 1989 when, as a 12 year-old, he was accepted into the prestigious California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to study physics. He went on to pursue a doctorate in the field of "Super String Theory" in 1992 at Cornell University, an Ivy League institution.