Cosmologist in Lederhosen Spouts Nonsense!
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From: eric gisse on 15 May 2010 23:48 Robert L. Oldershaw wrote: > > Regarding the "Boltzmann Brain" revised "paper" (i.e., piece of @#$%) > by Linde, Guth , Vilenkin, et al recently placed on the arXiv.org > archive, the mad Zeppelin commander, wearing lederhosen and carrying > an ice pick, spouted the following complete falsehood: > > " It's like a kettle of water on a hot stove---there is a small but > finite probability that it will > freeze. " > > What utter nonsense! You are too stooooopid to understand that the bulk behavior of a fluid is statistical in nature. [snip rest of stupidity]
From: Don Stockbauer on 16 May 2010 00:07 On May 15, 10:48 pm, eric gisse <jowr.pi.nos...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Robert L. Oldershaw wrote: > > > Regarding the "Boltzmann Brain" revised "paper" (i.e., piece of @#$%) > > by Linde, Guth , Vilenkin, et al recently placed on the arXiv.org > > archive, the mad Zeppelin commander, wearing lederhosen and carrying > > an ice pick, spouted the following complete falsehood: > > > " It's like a kettle of water on a hot stove---there is a small but > > finite probability that it will > > freeze. " > > > What utter nonsense! > > You are too stooooopid to understand that the bulk behavior of a fluid is > statistical in nature. > > [snip rest of stupidity] It's the same effect as the fact that all the air in your room could simultaneously move to the half which you are not in, suffocating yourself. But the deal is that it's so unlikely you'd not expect it to happen for many trillions of years.
From: "Juan R." González-Álvarez on 16 May 2010 07:21 eric gisse wrote on Sat, 15 May 2010 20:48:15 -0700: > Robert L. Oldershaw wrote: > > >> Regarding the "Boltzmann Brain" revised "paper" (i.e., piece of @#$%) >> by Linde, Guth , Vilenkin, et al recently placed on the arXiv.org >> archive, the mad Zeppelin commander, wearing lederhosen and carrying an >> ice pick, spouted the following complete falsehood: >> >> " It's like a kettle of water on a hot stove---there is a small but >> finite probability that it will >> freeze. " >> >> What utter nonsense! > > You are too stooooopid to understand that the bulk behavior of a fluid > is statistical in nature. Which is *only* true at equilibrium by the simple reason that the generator of time translations is zero at equilibrium. Non-equilibrium is different and very beyond your superfitial understanding of fluids [*]. [*] Your ignorance again, nothing new... -- http://www.canonicalscience.org/ BLOG: http://www.canonicalscience.org/publications/canonicalsciencetoday/canonicalsciencetoday.html
From: Sue... on 16 May 2010 08:59 On May 15, 11:48 pm, eric gisse <jowr.pi.nos...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Robert L. Oldershaw wrote: > > > Regarding the "Boltzmann Brain" revised "paper" (i.e., piece of @#$%) > > by Linde, Guth , Vilenkin, et al recently placed on the arXiv.org > > archive, the mad Zeppelin commander, wearing lederhosen and carrying > > an ice pick, spouted the following complete falsehood: > > > " It's like a kettle of water on a hot stove---there is a small but > > finite probability that it will > > freeze. " > > > What utter nonsense! > > You are too stooooopid to understand that the bulk behavior of a fluid is > statistical in nature. Statistics are a human invention. However did the fluids manage to behave before we came along and wrote rules for them? :-)) Sue... >
From: Robert L. Oldershaw on 16 May 2010 17:06
On May 16, 8:59 am, "Sue..." <suzysewns...(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > Statistics are a human invention. However did > the fluids manage to behave before we came along > and wrote rules for them? :-)) ----------------------------------- Well put, Sue. And it is the misuse of statistics and inference that really characterizes contemporary theoretical physicists. Don, you can wait a googol of years for all of the air molecules to magically shift to one side of the room, but you will never be in the slightest bit of danger. The probability is not low, it is zero, and it ain't ever going to happen IN THE REAL WORLD. It only happens in the Platonic realms of theoretical physicists' postmodern abstractions. And Eric: Quite simply I understand statistics and nature immeasurably better than you. Best to all, RLO www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw |