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Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

May 27th, 2020, 5:00 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/opin ... sophy.html

A KERFUFFLE has broken out between philosophy and physics. It began earlier this spring when a philosopher (David Albert) gave a sharply negative review in this paper to a book by a physicist (Lawrence Krauss) that purported to solve, by purely scientific means, the mystery of the universe’s existence. The physicist responded to the review by calling the philosopher who wrote it “moronic” and arguing that philosophy, unlike physics, makes no progress and is rather boring, if not totally useless. And then the kerfuffle was joined on both sides.
 
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

May 27th, 2020, 6:04 pm

 
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

May 27th, 2020, 6:33 pm

I prefer physicists to brawl with philosophers rather than muck about with finance.
 
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

May 27th, 2020, 7:01 pm

I prefer physicists to brawl with philosophers rather than muck about with finance.
Lambs in the midst of wolves.
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Besides, the physicists are doing OK brawling among themselves.
 
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

May 27th, 2020, 11:42 pm

Steven Hawking drooling at the Google conference - a good illustration of physics without philosophy.
 
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

May 29th, 2020, 8:06 am

Steven Hawking drooling at the Google conference - a good illustration of physics without philosophy.
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

May 30th, 2020, 6:04 pm

physics is the foundation of all science, including math...

mathematicians, economists, biologists,  chemists are fiddling in physics when they talk about their own disciple..  but as physics is held hostage by mathematicians there is little hope...

what to do? robotic farming until the crisis is over?
 
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

May 30th, 2020, 8:26 pm

but as physics is held hostage by mathematicians there is little hope...

A churlish statement. Mathematicians are only trying to help.

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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

June 1st, 2020, 5:05 pm

"but as physics is held hostage by mathematicians there is little hope...

A churlish statement. Mathematicians are only trying to help."


My apologize, I forgot the many(?) kind hearted mathematicians, my view was biased from stepping on the toe recently of one borderline evil mathematician (dont worry, no one here), and if the central limit theorem holds true then possibly even this mathematician good...
 
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

June 1st, 2020, 6:04 pm

Some of my best friends are mathematicians. Most are normally distributed.
 
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

June 1st, 2020, 6:17 pm

"Some of my best friends are mathematicians. Most are normally distributed."

yes, those Judo-mathematicians, soft landing for Judo-mathematicians do not mean people with long break from judo think their throws feels like soft landing...reminds me I felt of a ladder this month, and strangely ended in a backward roll...no injuries, just some stiffness, skull intact (I think).

"Most are normally distributed."

yes I am aware off their familiar body shape!
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

June 1st, 2020, 6:43 pm

You've definitely had too much iskrem med blomster!
 
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

June 1st, 2020, 6:55 pm

"Some of my best friends are mathematicians. Most are normally distributed."

yes, those Judo-mathematicians, soft landing for Judo-mathematicians do not mean people with long break from judo think their throws feels like soft landing...reminds me I felt of a ladder this month, and strangely ended in a backward roll...no injuries, just some stiffness, skull intact (I think).

"Most are normally distributed."

yes I am aware off their familiar body shape!
I sometimes have a drink withe friends, It happen when they have too much vino their glass fall. By reflex I can catch it before it smashes. Makes a big impression, what?

Speaking of hard break fallsImage, here's me floating through the aether in 1975 on the cricket pitch where George Fitzgerald had his contractions. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.
 
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

June 2nd, 2020, 7:01 pm

And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?
 
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Re: Physicists, Stop the Churlishness

June 2nd, 2020, 7:48 pm

And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?
You can never lose Soul

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