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Well whoopdee doo, you might be saying. "Who is David Pines, and why do I care?" you might be asking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pines

This guy worked with Einstein. He his one of the giants of modern physics.
They just opened up a graduate level course in Emergence Theory (which is this guy's main bag) to undergrads, and I signed up for it immediately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
http://emergentuniverse.org/

Apparently there will be a lot about the history of modern physics, as well. Super bitchin.

Shit, man, I tried to read the first sentence (read: paragraph) of his wikipedia entry and I don't think I understood much at all.


Enjoy the journey!

Emergence theory is pretty fucking fascinating.
A class taught by a genius dude who actually knew and worked with Einstein, heck, I cannot lie, I envy you!

Jonny wrote:Shit, man, I tried to read the first sentence (read: paragraph) of his wikipedia entry and I don't think I understood much at all.

From wikipedia: Some recent research results on correlated electron materials are the development of a consistent phenomenological description of protected magnetic behavior in the pseudogap state of underdoped cuprate superconductors and the discovery of the protected emergence of itinerancy in the Kondo lattice in heavy electron materials and its description using a two-fluid model.

Here's a video explaining it:

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OK, yeah, we've all seen it, but it's what I immediately thought of when I read that sentence.

Your brain asplode!

You should definitely send Dr. Pines that video!!!