July 2004
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Proms
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Jo and I went to the BBC Proms last night, and saw a new commision from John Casken, Symphony ‘Broken Consort’; Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major; and Stravinski’s Firebird Suite, all performed by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. The BBC Phil was OK, hard to judge with the slightly murky sound from
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Fame & Fortune (Black Holes, part II)
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I just spent about three minutes talking to the BBC World 6 o’clock news anchor (Nik Gowing) about Black Holes, quantum mechanics, and information. (And allowed the BBC’s budget to shuttle me from Imperial College to White City and finally to Paddington.) He was perhaps less interested in the science than in Hawking’s bet with
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Black Holes
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At about 4pm, the phone rang — it was the BBC! Apparently, an editor there had read in New Scientist that Stephen Hawking had solved the “Black Hole Information Paradox.” So — despite the fact that he won’t be presenting the results until the GR17 meeting in Dublin next week — I’m off to the
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Gabriel Orozco
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Joanne and I went to see the new show of works by Gabriel Orozco at the Serpentine Gallery. He’s most famous for a human skull, inked over with a pattern of criss-crossing diamonds. It’s beautiful, it’s about mortality, geometry, and it’s about imposing our will upon the world (and vice versa). Orozco is a painter,
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