A life online · Alejandro Rivero
Research also happened in comments and conversations. These entries follow exchanges outside my own sites, alongside the forum and Usenet material in the chronology.
In the sci.physics.research thread “What's wrong with string theory?”, I point readers to Peter Woit's newly posted String Theory: An Evaluation on the University of Zaragoza arXiv mirror. This predates the later conversations on physics blogs.
Urs Schreiber's Before the flood refers to our discussion of spectral noncommutative geometry and strings. A later Strings 04 thread contains my exchange with him about the conference and twistor strings.
A comment distinguishing empirical input from theoretical deductions in discussions of the anthropic principle.
A conversation at Peter Woit's blog about solitary research, work in finance, and my earlier note on divergences.
The same distinction between observation and principle appears in my contribution to Jacques Distler's High Energy Supersymmetry discussion.
A readable Google Groups thread preserves the original reaction to the lepton-mass relation, followed by a link to my short memorandum. This adds the actual Usenet discussion alongside the later preprint.
Tommaso Dorigo presents my decay-width plot and the discussion continues in the comments. A follow-up credited to me gives the PDG data and gnuplot steps needed to reproduce it, including a units correction in the data.
In the Physics Forums discussion of An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything, I ask what survives when physical constants and classical limits are restored.
A Physics Forums reply points to my old chronology of the subject and suggests beginning with the relationship between a commutative algebra and a manifold.