Greene et al.: too large landscapes are unstable

For years, I've been intrigued by the general idea that the usual KKLT arguments – supporting the view that the number of vacuum (dS or...

There are 921,497 CICY four-folds

The constructive part of the "landscape" is finite and under control James Gray, Alexander S. Haupt, and Andre Lukas posted a high...

We don't live in a simulation

In 2011, I already wrote a text about the theories that our universe is a computer simulation: Rebooting the Cosmos Needless to say, a regul...

Nicolaus Copernicus: 540th birthday

Off-topic, Higgs : Fox News , BBC , and others are suddenly excited by the possibility suggested by the Higgs boson mass that our Universe ...

A proof of Intelligent Design?

I hope that the title isn't too provocative. ;-) Bill Z. has brought my attention to a December 2012 nuclear physics paper that was upda...

What is background independence and how important is it?

Bugmenot asked : What is background independence and how important is it? In order to be a theory of everything, will the final string-theo...

Experimenters, SUSY, frustrations, and anthropic ideas

High-energy phenomenologists and experimenters may be entering a psychological stage that was predictable – and that, in fact, many of us in...

Diphoton Higgs enhancement as a proof of naturalness

The first hep-ph preprint today is a paper I've known about since the July 4th Higgsfest and I've been looking forward to see it. Th...