Yourdadonapogostick and Luc won some forecasts

We competed to see who would predict some stuff right

one of these links should get post #104, with the details

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?p=184692#post184692

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showpost.php?p=184692&postcount=104

Some of the results needed to decide who guessed right are not in yet.

But some are. Yourda did pretty well. So did someone with the strange name of MISTER NINE.

Yourda guessed there would be 8 articles about CDT quantum gravity posted in 2005, and there were.

Actually the search came up with nine articles (Mr. 9's guess) but the one by Smolin was only partly about CDT----it was more of a general survey.

YOURDA AND LUC BOTH HAD THE SAME GUESS for Loop Quantum Cosmology-----their low estimate was 40. And that was the closest. The search turned up 37.

The earliest we will know about the STRING CITATIONS FOR 2005 is probably sometime in March. The report always comes out a few months after the end of the year.