{"id":385,"date":"2006-07-12T07:59:38","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T07:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/12\/string-theory-rhic-and-furrs-l\/"},"modified":"2006-07-12T07:59:38","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T07:59:38","slug":"string-theory-rhic-and-furrs-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/12\/string-theory-rhic-and-furrs-l\/","title":{"rendered":"String Theory, RHIC, and Furr&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An off-hand comment in <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/the_chopped_liver_accelerator.php\">my RHIC post<\/a> has provided a lot more traffic and entertainment than I would&#8217;ve thought possible, and has also accidentally re-confirmed what we used to call &#8220;Furr&#8217;s Law&#8221; back in my Usenet days&#8211; namely, that the fastest way to get information on the Internet is to say something wrong, and let people rush to correct you. (Please note, I&#8217;m not saying I deliberately slighted string theory in order to discover RHIC resources&#8211; I deliberately slighted string theory for the sake of a (not terribly effective) joke.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the responses have provided a wealth of String Theory\/ RHIC links, for those inclined and able to read them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/golem.ph.utexas.edu\/~distler\/blog\/archives\/000812.html\">AdS\/Au-Au I<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/golem.ph.utexas.edu\/~distler\/blog\/archives\/000820.html\">AdS\/Au-Au II<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/golem.ph.utexas.edu\/~distler\/blog\/archives\/000608.html\">Strings 2005 Wrap-Up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/hep-th\/0605182\">Drag Force in AdS\/CFT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/hep-th\/0512162\">Asymptotic perfect fluid dynamics as a consequence of AdS\/CFT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/hep-th\/0511199\">A Gravity Dual of RHIC Collisions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, there you go. Additions are welcome in the comments. And don&#8217;t miss your chance to vote in the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/extremely_dorky_poll.php\">extremely dorky poll<\/a> (currently, the fine structure constant is running second to Planck&#8217;s constant, with the speed of light right up there. And according to one commenter, this will cease to be dorky if another fifteen people vote, so hurry on over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An off-hand comment in my RHIC post has provided a lot more traffic and entertainment than I would&#8217;ve thought possible, and has also accidentally re-confirmed what we used to call &#8220;Furr&#8217;s Law&#8221; back in my Usenet days&#8211; namely, that the fastest way to get information on the Internet is to say something wrong, and let&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/12\/string-theory-rhic-and-furrs-l\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">String Theory, RHIC, and Furr&#8217;s Law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","category-physics","category-string_theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}