[Quark2005]

Thanks for the physics ping!

Strings, supersymmetry, branes - not easy stuff to wrap one's mind around. Not very many people in the world truly understand this stuff (I'm certainly not one of them).

[RightWingAtheist]

I teach English to international graduate students, and one of them is a Korean who while a Master's student in his homeland, was one of the authors of a paper on string and brane theory which was published in the Journal of High Energy Physics. He tells me now that he's lost interest in the subject, and is now seeking to apply condesed matter physics to problems in astrobiology.