Archive for 13th December 2008

Alan Alda and Curvature in Space-Time

Actor Alan Alda appears with mathematician Bob Osserman in a video of a Berkeley Repertory Theatre conversation sponsored by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. It is a wonderful conversation between two very intelligent and curious individuals. Here I want to comment on Alda’s implicit, unanswered question:

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