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From: Robert L. Oldershaw on 9 Jul 2010 00:27

From "13.7 - Cosmos and Culture" essay on threats to science
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But what of physicists who go on the Colbert Report and talk about
time-travel and research in "string theory" as "reading the mind of
God"?

What of physicists selling us a 10^500 universe "landscape".

What of physicists pushing lunatic concepts like "Boltzmann Brains"?

What of physicists multiplying unobservable "extra dimmensions" like
rabbits?

If you ask me, a large part of the problem is right at the heart of
the
Church of Theoretical Physics.

For decades we have selected for physics students with extraordinary
mathematical skills and assumed that they would also be
conceptually sophisticated. Very bad assumption!
More likely: The two are inversely proportional.

For decades we have selected against those with strong conceptual
skills.

We end up with 30 years of untestable Platonic Theories of Nothing.
But worst of all is that the Church resists any real conceptual
advances
in order to protect itself and keep the glass-bead game going.

What an irony! Four hundred years after Galileo's travails, it is
physicists
themselves who have joined with new-age supernaturalists to threaten
the advancement of science.

RLO
www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

And by the way: Discrete Scale Relativity 1; QED 0.
From: eric gisse on 9 Jul 2010 01:51
Robert L. Oldershaw wrote:

[...]

> If you ask me [...]

Why would anyone ask you?
From: Robert L. Oldershaw on 9 Jul 2010 13:28
On Jul 9, 1:51 am, eric gisse <jowr.pi.nos...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert L. Oldershaw wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > If you ask me [...]
>
> Why would anyone ask you?
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They might want to learn something new, Woofster. Ever heard of the
concept?

From: Sam Wormley on 9 Jul 2010 14:13
On 7/9/10 12:28 PM, Robert L. Oldershaw wrote:
> On Jul 9, 1:51 am, eric gisse<jowr.pi.nos...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Robert L. Oldershaw wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> If you ask me [...]
>>
>> Why would anyone ask you?
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> They might want to learn something new, Woofster. Ever heard of the
> concept?
>

Why do you mock all the poster holding physics degrees? That's
the behavior of a troll.
From: eric gisse on 9 Jul 2010 14:14
Robert L. Oldershaw wrote:

> On Jul 9, 1:51 am, eric gisse <jowr.pi.nos...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Robert L. Oldershaw wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > If you ask me [...]
>>
>> Why would anyone ask you?
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> They might want to learn something new, Woofster. Ever heard of the
> concept?

If other scientists don't think you have something worth learning, who do
you think is going to be asking you?
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