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Lacking hard data, theorists try democracy
Science is not done by popylar vote. But nothing can be taken for granted when string theory is the subject. So when Stephen Shenker, a Stanford University theorist who was moderating a panel discussion here on the future of the putative theory of everything, asked for a show of hands on the fate of...
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author | Overbye, Dennis |
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description | Science is not done by popylar vote. But nothing can be taken for granted when string theory is the subject. So when Stephen Shenker, a Stanford University theorist who was moderating a panel discussion here on the future of the putative theory of everything, asked for a show of hands on the fate of a strange number known as the cosmological constant, some 400 physicists and mathematicians wer happy to swallow their doubts and vote (2 pages) |
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spelling | cern-8722392019-09-30T06:29:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/872239engOverbye, DennisLacking hard data, theorists try democracyOther SubjectsScience is not done by popylar vote. But nothing can be taken for granted when string theory is the subject. So when Stephen Shenker, a Stanford University theorist who was moderating a panel discussion here on the future of the putative theory of everything, asked for a show of hands on the fate of a strange number known as the cosmological constant, some 400 physicists and mathematicians wer happy to swallow their doubts and vote (2 pages)PRESSCUT-S-2005-274oai:cds.cern.ch:8722392005 |
spellingShingle | Other Subjects Overbye, Dennis Lacking hard data, theorists try democracy |
title | Lacking hard data, theorists try democracy |
title_full | Lacking hard data, theorists try democracy |
title_fullStr | Lacking hard data, theorists try democracy |
title_full_unstemmed | Lacking hard data, theorists try democracy |
title_short | Lacking hard data, theorists try democracy |
title_sort | lacking hard data, theorists try democracy |
topic | Other Subjects |
url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/872239 |
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