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“It was only in 1996 that I finally came across Gravitation by Charles Misner, Kip Thorne and John Wheeler. Published in 1973, this 1279-page masterpiece takes all the time it needs to prepare the reader for the subject, spelling out the beautiful geometric principles that underly Einstein’s conception of gravity. In general relativity, the way [...]
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“Re: The Strangest Numbers in String Theory The article was intriguing, but John Huerta’s thesis with all the details looked a bit scary, or at least the kind of thing I’d need to spend six months on to really understand. Here’s a naive question. The article seemed to imply that you might be able to [...]
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““But how does that change things?” Yalda wondered. “If I see red light and violet light at the same time . . . then the slower, red light must have left the sun earlier.” “Right. So how does that affect what you see?” Yalda struggled to picture it. “Where the sun is in the sky [...]
” You are currently in the middle of writing the Orthogonal trilogy. What prompted you to begin such a project and what do you hope to gain from such an endeavor? A few years ago I started thinking about what it might be like to live in a universe that was different from our own [...]
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Seiun award nomination, 2011. 5 out of 5 http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=4122
““‘Forget the true shape of the planet’: The Anarchic Spaces of Greg Egan’s Distress,” in Jennifer Rutherford and Barbara Holloway (eds.)” Unseen. http://www1.carleton.ca/fass/news/2010-fass-publications-and-awards/
“Illustration for Greg Egan’s story “Border guards” Nowa Fantastyka 10/2007″ 4 out of 5
“Illustration for Greg Egan’s story “Border guards” Nowa Fantastyka 10/2007″ 4 out of 5
Novella Number of words : 18000 Percent of complex words : 12.1 Average syllables per word : 1.5 Average words per sentence : 19.7 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 12.7 Flesch : 58.0 Flesch-Kincaid : 10.1 PEOPLE Robert Stoney A professor of mathematics. Peter Quint A spook, and one of Stoney’s captors. Franza Kafka Not a [...]
Small rodents that will fuck anything. 4 out of 5
A created dog breed. 3 out of 5
A machine that could solve the halting problem. 4 out of 5
One of the oldest unsolved problems in number theory and in all of mathematics. Every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes. 3 out of 5
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About positive integer algebra. 3 out of 5
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Postulated by Kurt Godel. 4 out of 5
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Woodland deity. 3 out of 5
Roman deity. 3 out of 5
A character set for telegraphy. 3 out of 5
One of Hamilton’s Nescia books. 3.5 out of 5
A BBC debate between Stoney and Hamilton. 4 out of 5
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Essay by Tollers. 3.5 out of 5
Mythical ancient structure. 3 out of 5
Mythical Arthurian leader. 3 out of 5
A John Hamilton character. 3 out of 5
Satirical newspaper column by John Hamilton. 3.5 out of 5
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Devil-dealing character. 3 out of 5
Anti-science book by John Hamilton. 3 out of 5
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Anti-materialism tract by John Hamilton. 3.5 out of 5
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Children’s fantasies by John Hamilton. 4 out of 5
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A physics journal. 4 out of 5
A paper that generalised Maxwell’s equations for electromagnetism to apply to the strong nuclear force. 4 out of 5
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A computer. 3 out of 5
In England. 4 out of 5
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In England. 3.5 out of 5
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British Broadcasting Corporation. 4 out of 5
A society that holds debates at Oxford University. 3.5 out of 5
English international espionage agency. 4 out of 5
Part of Cambridge University. 4 out of 5
Police detectives. 3 out of 5
Stoney knows an oncologist there. 3 out of 5
Where the BBC studios are located. 3 out of 5
City in India. 3 out of 5
USA city. 3 out of 5
City in England. 3 out of 5
City in India. 3 out of 5
Capital of England. 3 out of 5
City in Colombia. 3 out of 5
City in Egypt. 3 out of 5
Where Stoney works at Cambridge. A mid-Victorian building. 4 out of 5
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A big church in England. 3 out of 5
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A church in England. 3 out of 5
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A river in England. 3 out of 5
A public school he went to. 4 out of 5
Writers. 3 out of 5
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An author. 3 out of 5
Has a PhD in algebraic geometry from Cambridge. 3.5 out of 5
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Ancient philosopher. 3 out of 5
Austrian mathematician. 3 out of 5
An academic philosopher who agrees to moderate the debate. 3 out of 5
A composer. 3 out of 5
Assistant and an affair of Stoney’s. 3 out of 5
Basically just a very dim Catholic. 3 out of 5
Ancient beauty. 3 out of 5
John’s dying wife. 3 out of 5
A poet. 3 out of 5
From Birkbeck, helped perfect the fabrication process for the computing circuits. 3 out of 5
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Made the superconducting alloys for the imager. 3 out of 5
Another mathematician that did war work. 3 out of 5
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John’s brother. 3 out of 5
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Philosophers. 3 out of 5
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A philosopher and winner of a debate with Hamilton. 3 out of 5
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Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Also an author of religious defenses and children’s fantasies. 3.5 out of 5
A physicist. 3 out of 5
A physicist. 3 out of 5
Had a time travel theory that was right. 3 out of 5
A movie director. 3 out of 5
A time travelling multiverse shifting android. 3.5 out of 5
A scientist. 3 out of 5
A mathematician. 3 out of 5
A physicist. 3 out of 5
A friend at school Stoney was in love with who died of bovine tuberculosis. 3 out of 5
A mathematician. 3 out of 5
A corrupted English spy. 3 out of 5
A detective at the Manchester CID. 3 out of 5
Stoney’s boyfriend at the time of his trouble. 3 out of 5
Not a Commie, and a writer. 3 out of 5
A spook, and one of Stoney’s captors. 3.5 out of 5
A professor of mathematics. 4 out of 5
Vignette Number of words : 750 Percent of complex words : 18.1 Average syllables per word : 1.7 Average words per sentence : 28.9 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 18.8 Flesch : 31.3 Flesch-Kincaid : 16.1 PEOPLE E.M. Forster A writer. Kusnanto Sarumpaet Javanese mathematician. Author of six papers on general relativity and QGT. Found a [...]
Currently being used to test for polymer states. 3 out of 5
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Possibility of open chains of dopant nodes. 4 out of 5
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With the four edges emerging from each node giving area to the faces of a “quantum tetrahedron”. 4 out of 5
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A spin network embedded in a region of space can be used to assign an amplitude to every possible configuration of a field. The quantum states defined in this way consist of lines of flux running along the edges of the network. 4 out of 5
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In Quantum Graph Theory, a quantum state describing both the geometry of space and all the matter fields present is built up from combinations of graphs. 4 out of 5
A set of nodes and edges. 4 out of 5
Did ground-breaking work on the possible dynamical laws for spin networks in the early 21st century. 3.5 out of 5
1990s Physicists. discovered an analogous result in quantum gravity, where spin network states have a simple geometric interpretation. 3.5 out of 5
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Had a theory of atoms as knotted vortex tubes. 3.5 out of 5
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A physicist and his spin networks are trivalent graphs with each edge labelled by a half integer, corresponding to a possible value of the spin of a quantum particle. 3.5 out of 5
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A physicist who had a notion of lines of force running between electric charges. 3.5 out of 5
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