If scientists are ignorant, as Dyson said, it's because they need a budget for better, novel, equipment. New equipment leads to new and better discoveries. I am betting we are now past the age of pure theoreticals, and we need scientists to wear the hat of the experimentalist, as well.
Neutrino interceptors, off earth, etc.. -----Original Message----- From: Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Dec 4, 2016 12:09 pm Subject: Re: No gravity / no dark matter On 02 Dec 2016, at 21:28, Brent Meeker wrote: I thought it was funny, and had a grain of truth (and I'm a physicist). To be sure, it applies to mathematicians, and biologists, too. It looks like after retirement, you are no more under the obligation to be rigorous, especially on philosophy, where rigor has been abandoned even by "professional" since long. It looks like people are afraid of admitting their fundamental ignorance before dying. It is the usual, and rather sane, fear of the unknown, but they won't admit it, I guess. Bruno 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]> 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. -- 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. http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- 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.
