Sorry! On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 2:44 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: > The comic was creepy, Telmo, and inaccurate. Maybe I just need to grow a > sense of humor? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> > To: everything-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Dec 2, 2016 6:51 am > Subject: Re: No gravity / no dark matter > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> >> To: everything-list <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wed, Nov 30, 2016 3:33 pm >> Subject: No gravity / no dark matter >> >> Hello, >> >> What do you guys think of this? >> >> >> http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/remarkable-new-theory-says-theres-no-gravity-no-dark-matter-and-einstein-was-wrong >> >> Cheers >> Telmo. >> >> >> It's a respectable theory, but Verlinde needs to work out some testable >> consequences. > > I was bored in an airport the other day and bought "The Grand Design" > by Hawking. He talks about his "model realism" philosophical stance -- > the idea that anything goes modelwise, as long as it fits the > observable data. I like the idea, somehow. I know wonder if demanding > one true model is not confusing the map with the territory. > > On the other hand, he also starts the book by explaining how > philosophy is dead, and how more or less theoretical physics > progressively makes all other fields of inquiry obsolete. > > It reminded me of this cartoon (with my apologies in advance to all > the physicists in the room): > > http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2556 > > Telmo. > >> There are several theories being pursued in which space or >> spacetime are phenomena emergent from entanglement of quantum fields. They >> can be traced back to a proposal by Sakharov in the '50s. >> >> Brent >> >> -- >> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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