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