This Makes Me Oddly Happy


Stanford University physicist Shamit Kachru and three colleagues recently released a paper with the euphonious title Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking which contained this sentence:

While in both cases for P anti-D3-branes the probe approximation is clearly not good, in the set up of this paper we could argue that there is a competing effect which can overcome the desire of the anti-D3s to embiggen, namely their attraction towards the wrapped D5s.

Can you spot the Simpsons reference?

The Scientific American blog provides details.