Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-13 Thread Tim May
You fucking creep. I dredged through my Trash folder to find out what our Portugese friend was replying to and discovered this bit of deception: On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 09:49 PM, Jim Choate wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: Does the common man read his Hawking's book?

Re: CDR: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-13 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: Does the common man read his Hawking's book? Did Hawking even write it? Second, I don't know about Hawking's books, but Lee Smolin is one of I especially like his 300 Years of Gravitation and his '73 work on large scale structure in time/space. stuff.

Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-13 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 07:36 PM, Andri Esteves wrote: On Thursday, 13 de February de 2003 02:02, you wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Andri Esteves wrote: Everything that could go wrong in academia and science is in Portugal. That is the background Magueijo

Re: CDR: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-13 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: You still read science popularizers ? There's absolutely nothing wrong with reading popularizers. Other than an clear block of time that could be better spent looking in the horses mouth ;) --

Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-13 Thread Tim May
You fucking creep. I dredged through my Trash folder to find out what our Portugese friend was replying to and discovered this bit of deception: On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 09:49 PM, Jim Choate wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: Does the common man read his Hawking's book?

Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Hawking writes about fairly established stuff, the usual black hole stuff. This was mostly old hat 30 years ago (which is when I took Jim Hartle's class on general relativity). Hawking doesn't get much into the newer theories, at least not in any of the books of his I've

New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23811 -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim wrote: Third, I have no idea if the VSL theory is right. Time will tell. Continuous math is a dead end. So are strings. The manifold folks are never going to produce anything which obsoletes the big general relativity book by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, which will live forever as the

Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread André Esteves
On Wednesday, 12 de February de 2003 23:47, you wrote: http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23811 Magueijo may seem to be going too far on the scientific establishment for an anglo-saxon. But for a fellow portuguese with the same critique, as magueijo is a portuguese

Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Andri Esteves wrote: Everything that could go wrong in academia and science is in Portugal. That is the background Magueijo comes from... But, it is not only in Portugal... Everywhere science has declined, as it becomes part of the political logic

Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread André Esteves
On Thursday, 13 de February de 2003 02:02, you wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Andri Esteves wrote: Everything that could go wrong in academia and science is in Portugal. That is the background Magueijo comes from... I sat in a bookstore and read most of his book

Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 07:36 PM, Andri Esteves wrote: On Thursday, 13 de February de 2003 02:02, you wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Andri Esteves wrote: Everything that could go wrong in academia and science is in Portugal. That is the background Magueijo

Re: CDR: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: Does the common man read his Hawking's book? Did Hawking even write it? Second, I don't know about Hawking's books, but Lee Smolin is one of I especially like his 300 Years of Gravitation and his '73 work on large scale structure in time/space. stuff.

Re: CDR: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: You still read science popularizers ? There's absolutely nothing wrong with reading popularizers. Other than an clear block of time that could be better spent looking in the horses mouth ;) --

Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread André Esteves
On Thursday, 13 de February de 2003 02:02, you wrote: On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Andri Esteves wrote: Everything that could go wrong in academia and science is in Portugal. That is the background Magueijo comes from... I sat in a bookstore and read most of his book

Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-12 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Andri Esteves wrote: Everything that could go wrong in academia and science is in Portugal. That is the background Magueijo comes from... But, it is not only in Portugal... Everywhere science has declined, as it becomes part of the political logic