Re: Randall-Sundrum, Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet, and PI

>>From Osher Doctorow

So was Wesson the first in this field? No. According to his own 10
Apr 2003 gr-qc/0302015, STM theory was developed more or less by D. W.
Joseph of U.K. (1962), K. Akama of Saitama Medical College Physics
Department Japan (1982), V. A. Rubakov of Institute for Nuclear
Research Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow (1983), Matt Visser of
Physics Dept. Washington U. St. Louis Missouri as of 1985, G. W.
Gibbons of U. Cambridge U.K. as of 1987 and David W. Wiltshire then of
U. Adelaide Australia (later moved to New Zealand Canterbury U.) and I.
Antoniadis as of 1990 (employed by CERN and moved around frequently
between Switzerland CERN and Ecole Polytechnique CERN in France).

The breakthrough in brane theory was attributed by Wesson to the 1996
work of Petr Horava and Edward Witten. Witten was at the Princeton
Institute and moved to CalTech fairly recently, while Horava has a most
surprising series of positions. Horava got his Ph.D. in 1991 at
Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, got a
Research Fellowship to Enrico Fermi Institute at U. Chicago (I wondered
where those Fellowships went!), worked as a Research Associate at
Princeton U., and then got a Sherman Fairchild Senior Research
Fellowship at Caltech. Not being anyone to stay still for long at that
time (I exaggerate slightly), he then joined Rutgers U. in 2000 as an
Associate Professor. He finally joined the Physics Department at U.C.
Berkeley in 2001.

I was denied access to Horava and Witten's papers in arXiv just now on
some wierd grounds of using the wrong server which to my recollection
has never happened to me before, but it is always good to learn more
about Rare Events. Undoubtedly it has nothing to do with my ranking
Berkeley among the universities/colleges which I don't recommend and
putting CalTech and MIT on the bottom of my list of recommended
universities provided that you take along about a dozen friends to keep
out the political brainwashing from students and/or professors.

I should mention that the University of California has over 1 billion
dollars of wealth, most of it as I understand invested in various
bonds, stocks, etc. This is undoubtedly to help the "poor little
children" whom California Teacher Unions have been bombarding us with
propaganda for months as suffering from Governor Schwartzenegger's
refusal to up their salaries and job benefits, although neither teacher
unions nor professor associations have ever to my knowledge gone on
strike to protect poor little children or any students but rather to
protect their own salaries and benfits.

Osher Doctorow

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