Thank you! If I understand Weinstein correctly, he seems to also be suggesting that the promotion of string theory by government funding is deliberately designed to neutralize physics. The motivation Weinstein is suggesting is to prevent new fundamental discoveries in physics (time travel, endless free energy, etc.) from over-turning the apple cart of the existing status quo the way the Manhattan Project did. Do you consider Weinstein’s hypothesis far-fetched?
Yes. Definitel as to motivation.. As the guy said in Serenity, "you can't stop the signal!" Such an effort would be doomed before it even started... DOA! Look at it this way, there'd have to be a breakdown in the 2nd law for the government or even a consortium of govts to impose that kind of order.. the Catholic Church tried and look how that worked out for them!
Perhaps you’re right, not sure. That wouldn’t explain why great discoveries tend to occur in certain cultures and groups that have specific intellectual characteristics and epistemological beliefs. The signal can be exceptionally hard to notice.
In any case, the Galileo Affair was really caused by Galileo’s bad manners. The Pope who forced him to recant, while a Cardinal, had been Galileo’s enthusiastic patron and funder of his astronomical research—until Galileo published a book insulting and humiliating him. When he was elected Pope, it was payback time. The Church was for centuries the great incubator of science, and the Jesuits for example included in their ranks noted scientists and astronomers. The lamentable obscurantism came later and was part of a generally super-toxic climate in Europe.
Thank you for this report on particle physics! What do you think about the contention of Eric Weinstein that string theory is a sterile dead end and that physics has lost its way?
I, for one, agree with him. With ST you can posit almost any setup, but can prove nothing. In it's favor, it has been productive of some very interesting mathematics. I don't think ST rules the roost at the research universities like it used to. LQG and cellular theories like t'Hooft proposes seem far more interesting.
Thank you! If I understand Weinstein correctly, he seems to also be suggesting that the promotion of string theory by government funding is deliberately designed to neutralize physics. The motivation Weinstein is suggesting is to prevent new fundamental discoveries in physics (time travel, endless free energy, etc.) from over-turning the apple cart of the existing status quo the way the Manhattan Project did. Do you consider Weinstein’s hypothesis far-fetched?
Yes. Definitel as to motivation.. As the guy said in Serenity, "you can't stop the signal!" Such an effort would be doomed before it even started... DOA! Look at it this way, there'd have to be a breakdown in the 2nd law for the government or even a consortium of govts to impose that kind of order.. the Catholic Church tried and look how that worked out for them!
Perhaps you’re right, not sure. That wouldn’t explain why great discoveries tend to occur in certain cultures and groups that have specific intellectual characteristics and epistemological beliefs. The signal can be exceptionally hard to notice.
In any case, the Galileo Affair was really caused by Galileo’s bad manners. The Pope who forced him to recant, while a Cardinal, had been Galileo’s enthusiastic patron and funder of his astronomical research—until Galileo published a book insulting and humiliating him. When he was elected Pope, it was payback time. The Church was for centuries the great incubator of science, and the Jesuits for example included in their ranks noted scientists and astronomers. The lamentable obscurantism came later and was part of a generally super-toxic climate in Europe.
Thank you for this report on particle physics! What do you think about the contention of Eric Weinstein that string theory is a sterile dead end and that physics has lost its way?
I, for one, agree with him. With ST you can posit almost any setup, but can prove nothing. In it's favor, it has been productive of some very interesting mathematics. I don't think ST rules the roost at the research universities like it used to. LQG and cellular theories like t'Hooft proposes seem far more interesting.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.065102
For an alternative to collider technology. We can use this to create a stable mini Sag A here at home!