July 14, 2010   185 notes
Embiggen, the fauxcabulary word created for an episode of The Simpsons, has found its way into string theory. Here’s the original quote from The Simpsons episode, Lisa the Iconoclast: A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man. Read the paper on gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking here…

Embiggen, the fauxcabulary word created for an episode of The Simpsons, has found its way into string theory.

Here’s the original quote from The Simpsons episode, Lisa the Iconoclast:

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Read the paper on gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking here…

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