On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 4:33:29 PM UTC-5, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 09:56:01AM -0700, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > > > > http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-crisis-in-physics-is-not-only-about.html > > > Yeah. Interesting article and comments are worth a read, too. Perhaps > the problem she described stems from limits in human cognition. > > quote: > > "But even if you don’t care what’s up with strings and multiverses, > you should worry about what is happening here. The foundations of > physics are the canary in the coal mine." > > end quote > > Indeed. I could not care less about strings and multiverses (unless I > can see a device making use of those theories), but I am a bit > worried. > > -- > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] <javascript:>
There are all these projects, like "It from Qubit" (emergence of spacetime from quantum entanglement, Simons Foundation and Perimeter Institute) from 3 years ago, but they all seem to fizzle out and produce nothing. @philipthrift > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/61894c67-1e68-4531-accd-f89a29600440%40googlegroups.com.
