In the 1970s, Uri Geller managed to persuade a load of eminent physicists that he had psychic powers. Physicists assume that you are being honest, because the penalties for not doing so in science are huge (namely, you will never be taken seriously again). Geller was a defector in a world of cooperators, in game-heory terms. He had less success with magicians, of course, who quickly worked out what he was really doing.
On 3 January 2014 00:21, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> wrote: > I knew a brilliant, experienced, standard, agnostic, peerreviewed > physicist and sucessful businessman that studied takions: particles with > superluminical speeds, and the possibility of time travel using them. He > was cheated and robbed by a sect of almost analphabet freaks that easily > convinced him that they were aliens teletransported to the Earth using the > technology that he envisioned. That is not an invention. > > > 2014/1/2 Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> > >> http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7128 >> >> The Internet is to time travel what smartphones are to UFO sightings: >> in the latter case, the "I didn't have a camera at the time" excuse is >> harder to swallow. >> >> Of course, in both cases we are hypothesising entities which are >> potentially more intelligent than us, so looking for them in the >> context of our own mental models might be flawed (I'm playing devil's >> advocate here -- I believe it to be very unlikely that we are being >> visited by either time travellers or aliens). >> >> Cheers >> Telmo. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Alberto. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
