End of Civilization News

(math.columbia.edu)

17 points | by jjgreen a day ago ago

4 comments

  • thegrim33 5 hours ago ago

    The supreme irony is that this extremist, partisan, embarrassing trash, being posted on a Columbia subdomain, thinking they're the "good guys", is more of a sign of the end of civilization than anything its contents tries to complain about.

    • verzali 2 hours ago ago

      I take it you are a fan of string theory, then?

  • PaulHoule a day ago ago

    From a linked arXiv paper:

       ... It was first thought that supergravity might offer a theory of 
       everything. But now the prevailing view is that 11-dimensional supergravity
       simply gives an approximate low-energy limit of M-theory ...
  • Schlagbohrer 9 hours ago ago

    Looks like this wild headline caused them to get slashdotted