tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post3038674140160061018..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: The Waterloo Institute for Complexity & InnovationSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-13588211407201173672009-11-08T04:33:06.919-05:002009-11-08T04:33:06.919-05:00Just a follow up note here for article referred ea...Just a follow up note here for article referred earlier of Roberts<a href="http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2004/11/classical-discription-of-quantum-world.html" title="http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2004/11/classical-discription-of-quantum-world.html" rel="nofollow">linked from 2004</a><br /><br />Sometimes whether we like to think about it, or not, there is a "geometrical propensity" for PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-77340817468470876262009-11-07T12:27:50.643-05:002009-11-07T12:27:50.643-05:00Hi Bee,
I have long been resided to the fact that...Hi Bee,<br /><br />I have long been resided to the fact that politicians refrain from revealing their true position and thus I find it an insult to our intelligence they throw around words such as transparency as if they truly believed in such concepts. However, when it comes to academia to conduct itself the same I find this so counterproductive and hypocritical to be equivalent to blasphemy; Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-89598155401381658602009-11-07T11:53:25.750-05:002009-11-07T11:53:25.750-05:00Hi Robert,
What we seem to be badly missing are w...Hi Robert,<br /><br /><i>What we seem to be badly missing are wisdom and judgment... We can wake up from our ignorance and our delusions and our self-interests. Or we can suffer the consequences. Our choice.</i><br /><br />I agree with you, but how do you wake up people numbed down by scary stories of catastrophes and disasters in their press, people who proclaim they aren't interested in Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-74539571792328247662009-11-07T11:47:45.703-05:002009-11-07T11:47:45.703-05:00Hi Phil,
I agree that before one can aim one has ...Hi Phil,<br /><br />I agree that before one can aim one has to define a goal. There are cases in which the way is the goal, but it's not always. And I would agree that this is a case where defining a goal would be beneficial, for it's a topic so vast one can easily get lost in websites featuring fashionable words. <br /><br />There is however a practical hurdle which is that universities Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68539080886684545672009-11-07T07:50:55.080-05:002009-11-07T07:50:55.080-05:00Hi Steven,
I see no godlike-ness in survival, Phi...Hi Steven,<br /><br /><i>I see no godlike-ness in survival, Phil, it's more of an instinct. Have you read "The Moral Animal" by Robert Wright? Lots of Darwin and E.O. Wilson, yummy. </i><br /><br />The central difference between considering ourselves as creatures of purpose, rather than products of simply directionless randomness, being the first suggests us having somehow acquired Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-75278888383770070192009-11-07T06:59:30.460-05:002009-11-07T06:59:30.460-05:00The Flammarion woodcut.
Flammarion's caption...<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#Modern_times" rel="nofollow">The Flammarion woodcut</a>.<br /><br /> Flammarion's caption translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..."<br /><br /> The widely circulated woodcut of a man poking his head through the firmament of a flat Earth to view the mechanics of the PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-52314280893362283372009-11-07T06:57:53.161-05:002009-11-07T06:57:53.161-05:00Hi Robert L. Oldershaw
I had referenced your sit...Hi Robert L. Oldershaw <br /><br />I had referenced your site quite early in my explorations when I seen how one could correlate orbitals with cosmological events. <br /><br />How one may feel about Hermetic Alchemy is how one might feel about seeing this correlation?:)<br /><br /> IN essence the human state is still a quandary of emotive substances while the intellect seeks to travel far from PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-91843856718671777922009-11-07T06:08:25.109-05:002009-11-07T06:08:25.109-05:00Phil wrote:
" ... before we continue the act...Phil wrote:<br /><br />" ... before we continue the actual journey much further, we need to first to decide where we want to be headed."<br /><br />I've already decided thanks to Hawking's wisdom: off the planet.<br /><br />"This must be seen for what it is, as not simply a decision mandated merely out of necessity, as evolution is normally assigned as being,..."<br />Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-83045512328848642672009-11-07T05:44:26.504-05:002009-11-07T05:44:26.504-05:00Hi Steven,
Yes you are correct that manufacturing...Hi Steven,<br /><br />Yes you are correct that manufacturing demonstrates process in many instances is as dependant on what takes place concurrently as incrementally within systems, which relates directly back to the focus of Bee’s subject, being the of study complexity and its applications. My central point however is to remind that as in manufacturing one cannot even begin to layout the processPhil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-59063446635339775362009-11-07T05:32:29.638-05:002009-11-07T05:32:29.638-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-15968044695432128292009-11-07T04:57:33.434-05:002009-11-07T04:57:33.434-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-29954663668281272442009-11-07T01:31:22.870-05:002009-11-07T01:31:22.870-05:00The "Population Bomb" is, IMHO, the &quo...The "Population Bomb" is, IMHO, the "Mother of all Crises".<br /><br />Convince the Japanese to believe it.<br /><br />Currently, and for the next few decades, their crisis is the under-population bomb.Tkknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-75159687835729297022009-11-06T23:01:48.652-05:002009-11-06T23:01:48.652-05:00Steve,
Re QG: GIGO. If you want to "transmut...Steve,<br /><br />Re QG: GIGO. If you want to "transmute" matter you need a powerful accelerator or a bomb or a star.<br /><br />Trying to "transmute" matter with pipe dreams and Platonic equations is, and always will be, hermetic alchemy.<br /><br />Sorry about that,<br />RLO<br />www.amherst.edu/~rloldershawRobert L. Oldershawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396555790655312393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-7361846917783393412009-11-06T12:04:38.629-05:002009-11-06T12:04:38.629-05:00All,
At the risk of belaboring the point, I will ...All,<br /><br />At the risk of belaboring the point, I will briefly restate my case and then move on.<br /><br />The "Population Bomb" is, IMHO, the "Mother of all Crises".<br /><br />If we do not address this problem quickly, effectively and honestly, then all the talk about saving the world from global warming, economic collapse, illness, and violence, or untestable Robert L. Oldershawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396555790655312393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-27843482084302135822009-11-06T08:17:43.163-05:002009-11-06T08:17:43.163-05:00@Phil - I hear and agree with everything you just ...@Phil - I hear and agree with everything you just wrote, you're a good thinking man (should we expect any less from a Platonist?) and the greatest gift a person can give another in my opinion is to make them think, and you've given us much in that regard.<br /><br />Since you're in Manufacturing though, I think you know what Operations Research in Business is. For others too tied downSteven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-27582041057131433932009-11-06T07:29:26.921-05:002009-11-06T07:29:26.921-05:00@ Christine - I understand the medical challenges,...@ Christine - I understand the medical challenges, but haven't I read somewhere that Biology and therefore Medicine is 200 years ahead of Physics? I think that's reasonable, thanks to Chemistry thanks to the Exclusion principle, thanks to Physics (Wolfgang Pauli). WE worry about what "spin" actually is, but they don't. Good enough for them it works. In any event, the medicalSteven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-74055349658241702432009-11-06T07:28:22.262-05:002009-11-06T07:28:22.262-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-86204700819983770192009-11-06T07:18:10.943-05:002009-11-06T07:18:10.943-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-61302919834635964232009-11-06T07:16:02.441-05:002009-11-06T07:16:02.441-05:00Hi Steven,
You cite one goal as having ourselves ...Hi Steven,<br /><br />You cite one goal as having ourselves going to live on other worlds, that indeed I hope is ultimately the destiny of human kind. However, I feel some of the immediate goals need to be a little more down to earth than this. The first thing I feel must be done is to have us all to stop looking at the world only in terms of its problems and rather having it looked upon as one Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-59461516884065256852009-11-05T13:22:32.068-05:002009-11-05T13:22:32.068-05:00ADDENDUM:
You mention good medical care as a cruc...ADDENDUM:<br /><br />You mention good medical care as a crucial factor in decreasing excessive birth rates.<br /><br />Here is an excellent case in point. You are right, but why is medical care often so poor? It is because the whole economy of the area is poor. And that is largely because the inhabitatnts have overpopulated the territory and have started decimating the natural resources upon Robert L. Oldershawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396555790655312393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-22190340726934914112009-11-05T11:02:42.384-05:002009-11-05T11:02:42.384-05:00Bee,
Knowing whether the population explosion [wh...Bee,<br /><br />Knowing whether the population explosion [which can be empirically documented, if one looks up pop. vs time] is a huge threat to the foreseeable future of humankind and other species, or something we can successfully deal with as we go along, is a matter of wisdom and judgement.<br /><br />Alas, today we have an over-abundance of analytical expertise - witness the geniuses at workRobert L. Oldershawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396555790655312393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-83972864846930122542009-11-05T09:14:18.500-05:002009-11-05T09:14:18.500-05:00Steven: I wasn't so much talking about the spr...Steven: I wasn't so much talking about the spreading of democracy as there being global democratic institutions.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-59736342047080320332009-11-05T09:11:56.378-05:002009-11-05T09:11:56.378-05:00Steven:How can Quantum Gravity help? Transmutation...<b>Steven</b>:<i>How can Quantum Gravity help? Transmutation. Once we know how matter and energy work on the smallest scales, Engineers should shortly thereafter learn how to turn Lunar titanium into any other form of matter we desire, and Newton's dream of Alchemy will finally be realized.</i><br /><br />Unfortunately I am embroiled in United States sovereignty claim because of the flag PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-10163744294589655152009-11-05T08:05:47.295-05:002009-11-05T08:05:47.295-05:00I propose a lunar colony, we have the engineering ...<i>I propose a lunar colony, we have the engineering expertise to build one now</i><br /><br />Breakthroughs needed to live on the Moon or whatever low gravity environment concerns adaptation of the human body to live in such conditions -- this is exceedingly more difficult than any engineering problem (which are already demanding).Christinehttp://egregium.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-42030383277257856362009-11-05T07:18:56.979-05:002009-11-05T07:18:56.979-05:00Phil wrote: "Personally I think the greatest ...Phil wrote: "Personally I think the greatest trouble with our times stems more from the lack of universal and inspirational goals, rather then any serious lack of a means to achieve them."<br /><br />Hasn't Stephen Hawking given us a clear goal: Get off this 8000 mile rock we're on or we're doomed? Between ESA, NASA, China, India, Japan and now Branson with his orbital Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.com