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Originally posted by jlittle View PostThe ideas of Lee Smolin are a counter to such multiverse concepts, which appear to this layman as unscientific. And, hence, nonsense, not even wrong.
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He wrote a perfect description of physics as it is today: "When you know the history of physics you are painfully aware of how much each era overestimates the scope of its understanding. Science progresses well, but at each stage, we embrace metaphysical fantasies that seem motivated by the science but come to look silly when people come to know more in the future. As Brian Eno once said, “Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the When you know the history of physics you are painfully aware of how much each era overestimates the scope of its understanding. Science progresses well, but at each stage, we embrace metaphysical fantasies that seem motivated by the science but come to look silly when people come to know more in the future. As Brian Eno once said, “Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.”.”
In his 1987 book, A Brief History of Time, Hawking admits to a philosophical interpretation of the Cosmological Constant because he couldn't explain its necessity. With his version of the Matrix Brane Theory he explains away the philosophical component and declares that there is no need for a First Cause. They only problem, which Brane Theory believers gloss over, or overlook, is that the theory is not falsifiable, which puts it in the same category as religion.Last edited by GreyGeek; Jun 18, 2015, 08:28 PM."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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Originally posted by claydoh View PostBack on track, a little.
Which one, I dunnno.......
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wtf happened to attachments??Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
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