The Midlands and South -west of England are represented by a long oak tree -ring chronology spanning approximately 4500 -3900 BC (calibrated radiocarbon dates). The wood on which it is based originates in a technologically advanced trackway crossing the low -lying Somerset Levels, in a coastal submerged forest probably killed by rising sea -level, and in flood -plain oaks washed down the River ...

We conjecture chronology is protected in string theory due to the condensation of light winding strings near closed null curves. This condensation triggers a Hagedorn phase transition, whose end-point target space geometry should be chronological. Contrary to conventional arguments, chronology is protected by an infrared effect. We support this conjecture by studying strings in the O-plane orbi...

Sometime during the early part of 1997 the author became aware of the controversial paper “Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis” [Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg, 1994] (WRR). This paper brought to the attention of a wider audience the possibility that the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) was some kind of cryptographic material. Though this work was countered by a lat...