{"id":3363,"date":"2009-01-29T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/29\/what-im-doing-at-boskone\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T09:28:10","slug":"what-im-doing-at-boskone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/29\/what-im-doing-at-boskone\/","title":{"rendered":"What I’m Doing at Boskone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boskone<\/a>, the Boston-area SF convention that Kate and I go to every year, is the weekend after next. Once again, I’ll be doing a few panels and one talk. For those who might be attending, or who care about this for some reason, here’s my preliminary schedule:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Saturday10am Physics: What We Don’t Understand
\n Geoffrey A. Landis
\n Mark L. Olson
\n Chad Orzel
\n Karl Schroeder
\n Ian Tregillis
\n In 1999 John Cramer wrote a column in Analog describing seven big
\n unsolved problems in physics (including the nature of dark matter,
\n the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, and the origin of the
\n arrow of time). Today, in 2008, three of these problems have been
\n solved. We’ll talk about the seven problems, the three which have
\n been solved, our current understanding of the rest, and perhaps add
\n some new problems to the list.<\/p>\n

Saturday11am Quantum Physics: Many Worlds?
\n Chad Orzel<\/p>\n

Sunday 11am Is Science Addicted to Randomness?
\n Greg Bear (M)
\n Jeff Hecht
\n Geoffrey A. Landis
\n Chad Orzel
\n Well, is it? If so, why? And when is “random” not so??<\/p>\n

Sunday 12noon Global Warming: Facts and Myths, (and all that jazz)
\n Vince Docherty
\n James Morrow
\n Mark L. Olson
\n Chad Orzel (M)
\n Last year the sea ice grew, reversing a trend. Global warming is
\n proven, but how bad can it be, really? And would it be so terrible
\n to someday have no snow for Boskone?<\/p>\n

This seems like a pretty fun slate of stuff. The Saturday morning talk is meant to be a quickie version of the recent<\/a> discussions<\/a> here<\/a>, about what Many-Worlds really says, and how it’s been (mis)used in science fiction. I’d give a more precise description, but I have yet to make one up…<\/p>\n

So, anyway, that’s my preliminary schedule. Comments and suggestions are welcome (I’ll probably put up a separate thread asking for global warming information, because it’s not my usual thing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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