On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 12:24:21 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > 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] > > > > > 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 >
They get more and more expensive, but many don't fizzle out; such as the Kepler spacecraft which has found around 2000 planets, and many other scientific spacecraft such as Galileo, Juno, Cassini, as well as the several spacecraft that have mapped the CMBR in ever greater detail. I could go on. Maybe she needs a cold shower. AG -- 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/41009c02-1633-438c-87d7-7a9a2864b2d1%40googlegroups.com.
