tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post581306264389479660..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: “Most Couragous Postdoc” PrizeSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-33138402471056915622010-09-16T08:52:04.251-04:002010-09-16T08:52:04.251-04:00Darwin and Copernicus were sophisticated amateurs ...Darwin and Copernicus were sophisticated amateurs who financed there own work. They both made lasting contributions. Their work involved far-reaching changes in the fundamentals of their particular science. Years ago, I completed all the course work for a PhD in psychological statistics. Relying on my own finances, I have worked for the last 33 years on two fundamental theories in physics. It Peter Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17066390540344321338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-2298175774607482532010-09-12T17:48:50.617-04:002010-09-12T17:48:50.617-04:00Carl Brannen nearly has a PhD, but not quite. Appa...Carl Brannen nearly has a PhD, but not quite. Apparently he studied for this at University of California, Irvine. To me this is just a technicality, but the FQXi judges might see things differently.<br /><br />Brannen has published a work in a mainstream journal (Foundations of Physics).<br /><br />Brannen is verbally thrashed at regular intervals for posting his ideas on The Reference Frame. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-56483463193153352162010-09-12T11:18:32.908-04:002010-09-12T11:18:32.908-04:00Hi Steven,
I’m happy to hear you also to be an ad...Hi Steven,<br /><br />I’m happy to hear you also to be an admirer of the late Michael Faraday, as people like him for me present as being the most remarkable of all. With the realization of the success of those like him it has always given me reason that more credence should given to the power of potential when it relates to outcome and that if there be a prize or not that what stands as being Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-55516159006985225142010-09-12T09:50:07.738-04:002010-09-12T09:50:07.738-04:00I love Faraday, and yeah I know Galileo was more t...I love Faraday, and yeah I know Galileo was more than a bit of a prick. So was Newton in his later years, as you've pointed out re Stephen Grey.<br /><br />They can't all be Einstein.<br /><br />:-)Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-15820122904512704042010-09-12T09:46:35.761-04:002010-09-12T09:46:35.761-04:00Hi Steven,
Galileo didn’t suffer the fate he did ...Hi Steven,<br /><br />Galileo didn’t suffer the fate he did resultant of questioning authority, yet rather by ridiculing it. The fact is he poked fun at the intelligence of one of the most respected philosophers of his time, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Cremonini_(philosopher)" rel="nofollow">Cesare Cremonini</a>, who had the patronage of Alfonso II d'Este (duke of Ferrara) Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-59305302643644980522010-09-12T09:34:17.040-04:002010-09-12T09:34:17.040-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-86611303170887270092010-09-12T07:37:04.518-04:002010-09-12T07:37:04.518-04:00Can the award be posthumous? Probably not. If so t...Can the award be posthumous? Probably not. If so though, I'd award it to University of Pisa Mathematics Professor Galileo Galilei. He took on authority and ... lost, <i>but</i> he started a new craze (Modern Science) that remains with us still. <br /><br />If only Copernicus had a larger set and fought the good fight <i>while</i> he was alive, Galileo would have been spared a lot of grief, Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68755453002194014042010-09-12T04:51:14.687-04:002010-09-12T04:51:14.687-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-47635044580224787512010-09-11T16:55:55.619-04:002010-09-11T16:55:55.619-04:00Hi Christine,
Happiness is also found in the &quo...Hi Christine,<br /><br /><i>Happiness is also found in the "little" things nature gives us every day, like just looking at a beautiful flower in the fresh morning air.</i><br /><br />So true and yet this goes to further indicate that although you find yourself to be a caterpillar you have the interests of a butterfly, as caterpillars only find the leaves attractive for consumption, Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-2442383942639003032010-09-11T16:00:41.887-04:002010-09-11T16:00:41.887-04:00Hi Phil,
Thanks for the nice words. In fact, I am...Hi Phil,<br /><br />Thanks for the nice words. In fact, I am at an age that I no longer am certain of what I aspire to be, regardless of what I used to aspire to be in previous times. :) I guess that all that I aspire to be (or have) I already am or have it, actually: to have a reasonable health and a family that I love. These are the things that I think really matter. Happiness is also found in Christine Cordula Dantashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271747374185459530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28280352968982096392010-09-11T14:07:55.493-04:002010-09-11T14:07:55.493-04:00Hi Christine,
”In case the next prize goes to the...Hi Christine,<br /><br /><i>”In case the next prize goes to the most stupid career path ending up in a permanent position having to work in uninteresting things at an uninteresting place, please remember me for nomination.”</i><br /><br />If they ever create such a prize it should be an award of a large sum as to have it form to be a rescue grant. So if I were ever eligible to nominate people Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-65882760535495330372010-09-11T13:31:59.709-04:002010-09-11T13:31:59.709-04:00Hm.
In case the next prize goes to the most stupi...Hm.<br /><br />In case the next prize goes to the most stupid career path ending up in a permanent position having to work in uninteresting things at an uninteresting place, please remember me for nomination.Christine Cordula Dantashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271747374185459530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-16251552650896959292010-09-11T13:26:43.014-04:002010-09-11T13:26:43.014-04:00Does anybody know how to get mathematical symbols ...<i>Does anybody know how to get mathematical symbols to appear in a blog over at blogspot.com?</i><br /><br />Try <a href="http://hello-ed.blogspot.com/2008/11/latex-for-blogger.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>.<br /><br />In wordpress it is allowed to use latex even in the comments section, however I do not know about this possibility in blogger.Christine Cordula Dantashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271747374185459530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4642262688515596162010-09-11T10:39:09.527-04:002010-09-11T10:39:09.527-04:00Does anybody know how to get mathematical symbols ...<i>Does anybody know how to get mathematical symbols to appear in a blog over at blogspot.com?</i><br /><br />A webblog blog? Blog article? Blarticle (my call)? Most people call them blog <b>posts</b>, you know, the stuff people don't read before jumping to the replies.<br /><br />When I need to put equations in, I go to Wiki and save an equation to Images, then insert them into the post Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-59426571583000426202010-09-11T06:07:14.872-04:002010-09-11T06:07:14.872-04:00I can't do exponents, superscripts and subscri...I can't do exponents, superscripts and subscripts, which is annoying, but I can do these:<br /><br />Αα Alpha Νν Nu<br />Ββ Beta Ξξ Xi<br />Γγ Gamma Οο Omicron<br />Δδ Delta Ππ Pi<br />Εε Epsilon Ρρ Rho<br />Ζζ Zeta Σσς Sigma<br />Ηη Eta Ττ Tau<br />Θθ Theta Υυ Upsilon<br />Ιι Iota Φφ Phi<br />Κκ Kappa Χχ Chi<br />Λλ Lambda Ψψ Psi<br />Μμ Mu Ωω OmegaSteven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-91967255949313799502010-09-10T18:43:59.043-04:002010-09-10T18:43:59.043-04:00Does anybody know how to get mathematical symbols ...Does anybody know how to get mathematical symbols to appear in a blog over at blogspot.com?Pmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16074347726717618603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-43485284863809230042010-09-10T11:21:28.508-04:002010-09-10T11:21:28.508-04:00Hi Steven,
You asked: By "work in that direc...Hi Steven,<br /><br /><i>You asked: By "work in that direction" do you mean better experiments through better technology?</i><br /><br />That as well, yet what I’m mainly thinking of are first coming up with ways to have nature reveal itself better in respect to both the new and accepted theories. An example of this would be what J.S. Bell did for having entanglement established as a Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-55391818214498234712010-09-10T10:57:57.456-04:002010-09-10T10:57:57.456-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4701622252246950932010-09-10T10:23:15.902-04:002010-09-10T10:23:15.902-04:00By "work in that direction" do you mean ...By "work in that direction" do you mean better experiments through better technology? Sure seems to be working in the film industry.<br /><br />Which reminds me of a question. What is the shortest time we can explore and length as well given current technology (not including the train wrecks in particle accelerators)?Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-63070259870505733352010-09-10T07:28:05.323-04:002010-09-10T07:28:05.323-04:00Hi Georg,
Yes I should have used a few brackets t...Hi Georg,<br /><br />Yes I should have used a few brackets to make things clearer as that’s the trouble when dealing with hyphenated names:-) None the less I think Einstein would have formed to be a candidate for this award in his early years and yet as it turned out he succeeded just the same. The real trouble of course being the theories are getting harder to confirm or deny so perhaps work Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-63496046411499782572010-09-10T05:01:02.742-04:002010-09-10T05:01:02.742-04:00Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider-Reality and Scientific Tr...<i>Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider-Reality and Scientific Truth </i><br /><br />Hello Phil,<br />First I was stunned (three Names and <br />one of them "Reality"!), then I googled for that <br />name and foond, that this is a common error <br />in many citations. <br />That Ilse's name is Rosenthal-Schneider,<br />and the book title is "Reality and Scientific..."<br />Regards<br Georghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02538391164351204407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-49163122139141330892010-09-10T01:24:22.197-04:002010-09-10T01:24:22.197-04:00My vote is for N. Poplawski for his pioneering wor...My vote is for N. Poplawski for his pioneering work on torson in cosmology.<br />http://mypage.iu.edu/~nipoplaw/physics.html<br />(all this he has done without any support. His main<br />day job is in biophysics)Shantanuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16322812456382858228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-75339773551511369722010-09-09T23:36:51.331-04:002010-09-09T23:36:51.331-04:00Hi Bee,
I wasn’t aware you had taken this award b...Hi Bee,<br /><br />I wasn’t aware you had taken this award before. Despite all the descriptive qualifiers which FQXi offers it really comes down to recognizing researchers who trust in going with what their gut tells them rather then what their peer's consensus might be. To be truthful though one could make the argument doing so is not all that scientific as thought of in the normal sense. Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-62482959406014788872010-09-09T18:51:52.676-04:002010-09-09T18:51:52.676-04:00Different and crazy is almost always discriminated...Different and crazy is almost always discriminated against. You'd probably discrimnate too. Paul Erdos was descrimnated against by the Princeton Center for Advanced Mathematics. I email people for info about graduate programs, and either the first or second email, in which I give too much info about my different ways, and I don't ever hear back. And why should they respond? It's Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13208384160299965460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-63967996203992565502010-09-08T23:15:28.154-04:002010-09-08T23:15:28.154-04:00There was an article in Science in the mid-70s abo...There was an article in Science in the mid-70s about physics in the 3rd world. They interviewed one physicist from Bangladesh who had lived through the horrible era in which East and West Pakistan were divided. Since the official policy was to kill just about anyone who could read or write, he spent his time in hiding, working on physics to stay sane, and some how he survived.<br /><br />I hope Kaleberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03509179728704635798noreply@blogger.com