What is our intellect ? 1. We don't know what we are talking about" / Nobel laureate David Gross referring to the current state of string theory ./ 2. It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is. We do not have a picture that energy comes in little blobs of a definite amount. ” (Feynman. 1987) 3. When asked which interpretation of QM he favored, Feynman replied: "Shut up and calculate." 4. when I was first learning quantum mechanics as a graduate student at Harvard, a mere 30 years after the birth of the subject. "You'll never get a PhD if you allow yourself to be distracted by such frivolities," they kept advising me, "so get back to serious business and produce some results." "Shut up," in other words, "and calculate." And so I did, and probably turned out much the better for it. / N. David Mermin / 5. The problem of the exact description of vacuum, in my opinion, is the basic problem now before physics. Really, if you can’t correctly describe the vacuum, how it is possible to expect a correct description of something more complex? Paul Dirac . 6. “ Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them.” / John von Neumann ./ 7. Since the mathematical physicists have taken over, theoretical physics has gone to pot. The bizarre concepts generated out of the over use and misinterpretation of mathematics would be funny if it were not for the tragedy of the waste in time, manpower, money, and the resulting misdirection. / Richard Feynman./ 8. " I feel that we do not have definite physical concepts at all if we just apply working mathematical rules; that's not what the physicist should be satisfied with." /Dirac / 9. Etc……..
Conclusion from some article: "One of the best kept secrets of science is that physicists have lost their grip on reality." ================= . P.S. What is our intellect ? We can see this practically : after “ big bang “ all Galaxies run away from us. # This is our normal intellect in our normal Orwell’s farm. =================.. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
