Strings and Things August 16, 2007
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Reviews , trackbackI finally decide that, like it or not, ironing must happen or I will be wearing jeans to work tomorrow and as my current client is perhaps the most conservatively dressed institution in the City, that would not be a good thing.
After much searching, I locate iron and board in the spider-webbed back reaches of the hall cupboard and figure out how to set it all up. 2 summer suits and a shirt are hung from the door, and I turn on the radio, preparing myself for 20 minutes of mind-numbing boredom.
But this is Radio 4, and I find myself confronted with ‘Science Friction‘, a show highlighting scientific controversies. Tonight it’s the demise, or not, of string theory with an intelligent, civilised debate between two scientists, facilitated by Sue Nelson who doesn’t seem to need to prove that she’s the most important one in the conversation, so different from the Today programme. Does the unjustified popularity of string theory keep physicists away from other, more productive approaches to unified theories or is it merely waiting for the technology to catch up?
This is the stuff that makes the licence fee worth paying for. You can listen to it on the BBC website, and there’s another next week
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