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[ Originally posted at our new home at Scientific American. ] It's Chemistry Day at the Scientific American blog network, and while casting about for a relevant physics-related topic, I found my inspiration in the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day . John Connor is in mortal danger again, this time from a new, improved Terminator machine known as the T-1000. The original killing machine (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is now the "good guy," having been reprogrammed to act as Connor's protector. [ Note: Spoilers follow. But if you haven't seen the movie yet, what's the matter with you?
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Some items are related to FQXi grant winners: Markus Aspelmeyer talks about his proposed table-top test of quantum gravity, which could allow physicists to probe the Planck scale using current quantum optics technology; and Jeff Tollaksen describes time-symmetric quantum mechanics and the idea that laser experiments have shown the future influencing the past. Other items you may be familiar with from the blog: If you liked Matt Roberts’ review of the physics opera, The Astronaut’s Tale, last month, then you’ll enjoy the interview with Nancy Rhodes, the director of Encompass New Opera Theatre, who describes how chats with FQXi’s Brian Greene, as well as with Ed Witten and Michio Kaku, helped her develop an opera about string theory. The podcast includes audio snippets from one of her operas too. Neuroscientist David Eagleman also talks about “neural relativity,” the nature of time as constructed by the brain, and how schizophrenia may be related to a disorder in time perception.
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At Fermilab, scientists work on particle physics science and technology that leads to a better understanding of the physics of the universe and practical benefits to society. Scientists wonder why the universe is expanding ever faster. What mysterious force is at work? By recording the light from hundreds of millions of galaxies, they hope to find out what's going on. The proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment will explore the transformations of the world's highest-intensity neutrino beam to find out what role neutrinos played in the evolution of the universe. Project X would allow for numerous experiments at the intensity frontier and would allow scientists to develop technologies for a future machine at the energy frontier.
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Steven Weinberg has a new article in The New York Review of Books on The Crisis of Big Science , which is based on a talk he gave this past January at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin (for some discussion of this, see here and here ). Weinberg is rather gloomy about prospects for particle physics, seeing dim prospects for a new generation of particle accelerators, especially in the US. He goes over the sorry story of the SSC, which he was deeply involved in, and worries that the same thing is happening to the James Webb Space Telescope project.