"...I'm beginning to entertain the notion that the educated are our biggest contribution to social disaster..." - Adrian
Could be....and, training = training....memes = memes. Those susceptible to trance...are. On Sep 5, 4:03 am, adrf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try this for size. > From http://www.newciv.org/ISSS_Primer/seminark.html > HINTZ PAGELS "We live in the wake of a physics revolution comparable to the > Copernican > demolition of the anthropocentric world > -- a revolution which began with the invention of the theory of relativity > and quantum > mechanics in the first decades of this century and which has left most > educated people behind" > AND: ""If you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best > possible, elite > education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is > completely impervious to > reality." Halton Arp > > I've got several more with similar sentiments. So it may be an advantage to > know no physics, > less clutter to put in the waste basket. I'm beginning to entertain the > notion that the > educated are our biggest contribution to social disaster. > > Nature abhors a vacuum, is Newton's worst contribution. There are no vacuums > at all. In an > infinite universe things can get quite tenously close to zero, but never > attain it. So Physics > habit of making their sums out as zero, is false to fact. It's probably a > generalisation based > on the Magdeburg experiment of vaccuuming two half globes and pulling them > apart with horses > which they could not. > > adrian > > > > archytas wrote: > > Nature abhors a vacuum; physicists are none too keen on it either. > > However, conceptual attempts to fill it up, most famously with ether > > as a hypothetical medium, have regularly created more problems than > > they solved. This is because whatever occupies empty space would have > > to be somehow different from the tangible stuff the world is made of. > > Modern physics challenges the ancient dichotomy between substance and > > void. What is perceived as empty space turns out to be a new kind of > > ether, a patchwork of quantum fields teeming with spontaneous > > activity, and the fundamental building block of nature. Subject to > > random disturbances, this “grid” creates stable packets of energy > > which, by dint of Einstein’s most famous discovery, expressed in the > > equation E=mc2, account for the mass of ordinary matter. > > Wilczek draws on recent developments in the special theory of > > relativity, quantum field theory and quantum chromodynamics to probe > > the origin of mass and the prospects for a unified theory that would > > account for all its seemingly disparate aspects. “The Lightness of > > Being” began as a series of public lectures given by the author at > > different institutions. Not the easiest read, this book does cover > > the ground about to be tested at CERN. I’ll see if I can find a > > sensible review I can codge into the basic claims about more recent > > work. I am not and never have been a physicist. This collection of > > papers did help me understand more than I have in the past. > > > On 5 Sep, 09:35, archytas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I do, in some senses, believe we are waiting for 'things to pop up'. > >> Travel in the solar system may be fantastic in engineering terms, yet > >> also reveals how limted we still are against concepton of vastness. > >> Metaphors are subject to manifold interpretation as Carlos points to. > >> Even the most studied research leaves us with approximation in our > >> theories (Ludwig - horrible to read). CERN cranks over in the next > >> few days and will no doubt conclusively prove we need a bigger home > >> for the bouys and girls playing in it. > > >> On 4 Sep, 19:34, Georges Metanomski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- Hide > >> quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
