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Unravelling the random fluctuations of nothing [ Martin Schnabl ]
PhysOrg.com ^ | August 2, 2007 | European Science Foundation

Posted on 08/03/2007 5:09:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Czech physicist Dr. Martin Schnabl has been selected to receive a EURYI Award by the European science Foundation (ESF) and the European Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCS) to help him pursue his project and build on five years of hard work culminating in the solution of an equation in string field theory that had gone unsolved for 20 years... "It's a sort of field theory for the infinite tower of oscillatory modes of a string, each of them representing different particle species," Schnabl said. As Schnabl observed, string field theory, by explaining also how quantum mechanics is compatible with general relativity, is essential for understanding what goes on in situations where both of these are playing together... Schnabl, a 34 year-old Czech scientist, is a member of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. He took his PhD in theoretical physics at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, then went on to become research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CERN fellow at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. He has established himself as one of the world experts on string field theory, a particularly promising approach to string theory. He will be conducting his research at the Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic after receiving his award in Helsinki, Finland on 27 September 2007 with other 19 young researchers.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: martinschnabl; stringtheory
Dr. Martin Schnabl

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1 posted on 08/03/2007 5:09:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 08/03/2007 5:09:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Thursday, August 2, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Let the Gordian Knot games begin!


3 posted on 08/03/2007 7:10:30 PM PDT by MHGinTN (You've had life support. Promote life support for those in the womb.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Can't fault the guy's taste in clothes ;-)

Cheers!

4 posted on 08/03/2007 7:17:49 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Huh, interesting:
http://www.thenorthface.com/na/

This guy’s either:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875778/posts?page=48#48

:’)


5 posted on 08/03/2007 7:51:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Thursday, August 2, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: MHGinTN

http://home.comcast.net/~hawkwould/Gourds/index.html


6 posted on 08/03/2007 7:53:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Thursday, August 2, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Weird. I was #1 on the guy’s hit counter. That can’t be right.


7 posted on 08/03/2007 7:54:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Thursday, August 2, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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