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Not to beat this
thread into the ground, but rather than start a new thread on the same general
topic....
Today I stumbled
across a news item in the Dec 2004 issue of Scientific American giving an
overview of a conference called "The Future of Physics" held at the Kavli
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Santa Barbara, in Oct 2004 for the
institute's 25th anniversary. The conference audio and slides can be found
at either:
Included in
the conference were some discussions of the relation of physics to biology.
I did not happen to find audio of the panel discussion re biology very
interesting (except perhaps for the speakers contrasting current views vs. 25
yrs ago), but the final hour-long talk by David Gross (Director of the
institute) was more interesting to me. He presented 25 problems for the future
of physics, culled from suggestions submitted by attendees. Topics ranged from
cosmology to particle physics to string theory to biology. One was the question
of whether biology required new mathematics or not. Gross mentions someone's
name in connection with this idea, but I couldn't recognize it...it sounded
phonetically like "Lipsha Bear" to me. If anyone happens to hear it and knows
who it is, please let us know. The talk is an hour long....I'd say the biology
questions occur around 45 minutes into the talk.
Regards,
Tim
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