tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post3172641752544095032..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: A Thousand WordsSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-80651200975729162062014-05-18T11:36:32.000-04:002014-05-18T11:36:32.000-04:00Bee,
You could blog as some Wizard of Oz and deli...Bee,<br /><br />You could blog as some Wizard of Oz and deliver disembodied pronouncements from behind a velvet curtain, but I don’t think it would be as engaging as your candid, personal reflections on the many subjects that attract your interest. If anything your personal context and wry humor must add rather than detract from what you are intent on conveying.<br /><br />And your words are a Don Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04814669413022486958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-80736105461380816692014-05-16T17:46:38.185-04:002014-05-16T17:46:38.185-04:00I had never heard Titanium. The video detracts fro...I had never heard Titanium. The video detracts from the music although the video is well done. Barhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00964494372792180918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-57657146904248229242014-05-14T00:01:17.919-04:002014-05-14T00:01:17.919-04:00JimV,
Sometimes the underlying metalanguage of th...JimV,<br /><br />Sometimes the underlying metalanguage of the universe 's screen play is richer than what the perceptions of the reader or viewer as part of the experience can see.<br /><br />Lord of the Rings, the block buster movie, can never stand as deep as my reading the book before there were movies. Let us recall Tolkien was a linguist and some of the exotic languages and alphabets L. Edgar Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525169618204198073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-17938510320990050232014-05-13T18:56:05.045-04:002014-05-13T18:56:05.045-04:00I think you have explained why I always prefer a g...I think you have explained why I always prefer a good book to the movie that is based on that book. My rule is, if you must see a movie based on a book, see the movie before you read the book. There is less disappointment that way. Of course if you write a book and a movie is made of it, I will be happy to see the movie too.JimVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10198704789965278981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-27145429666545027242014-05-13T08:30:28.791-04:002014-05-13T08:30:28.791-04:00The universe is self renormalizable and self evolv...The universe is self renormalizable and self evolving.<br /><br />"This temporal sequence is not a picture. "<br /><br />I like uncle Al's comment of volume and surface only for me. It is area and edge or an edge and its points in discrete information sequences. After 4000 words in a manuscript I reduced it to one page of a graph but is that a picture? I still could not recall how L. Edgar Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525169618204198073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-59661123203211183432014-05-13T06:05:51.579-04:002014-05-13T06:05:51.579-04:00Late 70es reading the provided lecture notes for ...Late 70es reading the provided lecture notes for electrodynamics 101/102, a commentary accompanying a half-a-dozen glyphs long 4-vector expression of Maxwell's equations, that "All of electrodynamics is contained therein"...<br /><br />The assertions you make in the post remind me of my reaction at that commentary, that it was manifestly belied by the dozens preceding pages of Boris Borcichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05869004550299424489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-38840728149078508842014-05-12T21:24:28.087-04:002014-05-12T21:24:28.087-04:00Yes, but you know very well how excruciatingly pai...Yes, but you know very well how excruciatingly painful it is to sit through a powerpoint presentation with no pictures. Dear seminar givers: your first duty is to avoid boring us to death. Everything beyond that is a luxury!Rastus Odinga Odingahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615544434035028500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-14693875580224814262014-05-12T20:09:13.984-04:002014-05-12T20:09:13.984-04:00Sometimes I wonder if I’d not rather be an abstrac...<i>Sometimes I wonder if I’d not rather be an abstract “scientist” for you, instead of a married middle-European mother of two...</i><br /><br />Please be both :) Either classically or quantum mechanically :)Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451666670728177970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-40183147248481616102014-05-12T20:02:04.794-04:002014-05-12T20:02:04.794-04:00We might want to consider here the deeper nature o...We might want to consider here the deeper nature of language. The attempt to develop artificial languages especially Glossa (formerly Interglossa) from the Scientific Humanist era. Frederick Bodmer who studied Ojiba Amerindian here in Wisconsin and Lancelot Hogben.<br />What is the minimum words needed to say convey a statement in science?<br />What appealed to me was that the root words were L. Edgar Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525169618204198073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-17015693791677350062014-05-12T19:45:08.625-04:002014-05-12T19:45:08.625-04:00Enforcement Droid Series 209s versus paintball gun...Enforcement Droid Series 209s versus paintball guns with Parts A and B of quick cure large expansion polyurethane foam.<br /><br />http://cdn3.list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/legos.gif <br />http://lazerson.livejournal.com/2478.html <br />Graphics hold no truth at all. How's Afghanistan doing, $(USD)10^12/year for 12 years versus guys in skirts w/o bagpipes?<br />Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-15575240386613824992014-05-12T17:34:53.435-04:002014-05-12T17:34:53.435-04:00You forgot to comment on the need for science in a...You forgot to comment on the need for science in an inhuman world. Is it for better or worse?<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci7EFmO260ETheophanes Raptishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01269614280130174555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-15671494846079955632014-05-12T11:57:10.229-04:002014-05-12T11:57:10.229-04:00People who cannot craft words equally cannot use p...People who cannot craft words equally cannot use pictures in their stead. Social media encroachment as non-discriminatory mass accommodation of the smartless is wildly successful. It suffocates those who would keep score because product not process is important.Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-76046492660993773302014-05-12T11:04:41.812-04:002014-05-12T11:04:41.812-04:00http://www.coolthingsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/...http://www.coolthingsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/funny-mouse4.jpg <br /> The scientist.<br /><br />Three problems with our universe: 1) There is not enough surface area/volume; 2) It lacks connectivity; 3) The able are managed by the smartless. <br /><br />1) http://eleveneleven.50webs.com/taimina2.jpg <br />2) http://www.bathsheba.com/sculpt/ <br />3) http://f.kulfoto.com/pic/0001/Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.com