I thought it was funny, and had a grain of truth (and I'm a physicist).
Brent
On 12/2/2016 5:44 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List 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]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Telmo Menezes <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
> To: everything-list <[email protected]
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> 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
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