tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post82557656735543316..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: A splendid light has dawned on me …Sabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-23048768753055377252010-01-16T08:51:19.722-05:002010-01-16T08:51:19.722-05:00Hi Steven,
As you can see I had a similar reactio...Hi Steven,<br /><br />As you can see I had a similar reaction to the Einstein comment. The next thing you know Andrew will have us consider to forget about Simon & Garfunkel. Of course if he ever does I`ll just let them . <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q" rel="nofollow">respond to him themselves</a> :-) <br /><br />Best,<br /><br />PhilPhil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-61229715517488940192010-01-16T08:29:51.634-05:002010-01-16T08:29:51.634-05:00Andrew Thomas wrote: I think Einstein's situat...Andrew Thomas wrote: <i>I think Einstein's situation is quite like that of the Beatles. ... Like in music I read the other day that it's about time we "got over" the Beatles, and I would agree.</i><br /><br />?!?! What ... the ... Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon! Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicci verdi parasol! Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel!<br /><br /Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-84903633532354987682010-01-12T13:43:52.124-05:002010-01-12T13:43:52.124-05:00Hi Bee,
I guess you are right.
Best KayHi Bee,<br /><br />I guess you are right.<br /><br />Best KayKay zum Feldehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04233793196547147876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-22379304987313375572010-01-12T11:48:32.912-05:002010-01-12T11:48:32.912-05:00Einstein loathed quantum mechanics' deeper imp...Einstein loathed quantum mechanics' deeper implications, especially odd parity. GR does not tolerate fermions absent anomalies. A universe of insufficiently gravitating fermionic matter is subject to <i>corrections</i>.<br /><br />Quantized gravitations supplement Einstein-Hilbert action with odd-party Chern-Simons <i>corrections</i>. Particle physics was <i>corrected</i> by Yang and Lee.Uncle Alhttp://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-15368735997483405472010-01-12T11:25:01.608-05:002010-01-12T11:25:01.608-05:00I'd argue the transistor was at least as THE a...I'd argue the transistor was at least as THE as the LASER.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-34684499837062141882010-01-12T11:22:31.144-05:002010-01-12T11:22:31.144-05:00Hi Stefan,
to me the LASER is THE technical inven...Hi Stefan,<br /><br />to me the LASER is THE technical invention of the 20th century.<br /><br />Hi Andrew,<br /><br />I think you are right when you say that Einstein founds it easy to work on issues physicists are dealing today. Besides the experiment issue, if I read C. Rovelli's book "Quantum Gravity" - of course I am not Einstein :-) - this is very abstract and deals with Kay zum Feldehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04233793196547147876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-6813766770265842422010-01-12T08:00:06.726-05:002010-01-12T08:00:06.726-05:00There is another "equation" fromm
Einste...There is another "equation" fromm<br />Einstein, the "viscosity-equation",<br />wich stands a bit aside from <br />relativity and quantum physics. <br />That equation was/is important <br />for measurement of molekular weight <br />of polymers. <br />Staudinger & Co would have had hard <br />time without that equation.<br />Does somebody know what made Einstein <br />to Georghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02538391164351204407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-49595473629514044692010-01-12T07:30:49.740-05:002010-01-12T07:30:49.740-05:00Hi Andrew,
Yes I understand what you are saying, ...Hi Andrew,<br /><br />Yes I understand what you are saying, yet the very success of our species is found in having become able to not lose the lessons of the past as they act to build further our futures, while examining all the way. Einstein himself expressed thisbest when he remided in saying the following:<br /><br /><i>“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-20034664500583718922010-01-12T06:57:53.506-05:002010-01-12T06:57:53.506-05:00Hi Phil, I take your point, but I just feel that i...Hi Phil, I take your point, but I just feel that if we're always holding past achievements in such high regard then it's just going to inhibit our future progress, as if "nothing we can do is good enough". Like in music I read the other day that it's about time we "got over" the Beatles, and I would agree. Time to move on, and look to future achievements rather Andrew Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03852211910001840777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-48469639297465744982010-01-12T06:18:00.378-05:002010-01-12T06:18:00.378-05:00Hi Stefan,
It’s good of you to draw note of one o...Hi Stefan,<br /><br />It’s good of you to draw note of one of Einstein’s lesser known discoveries as so many think of him as just that fellow who came up with relativity. It’s also interesting to note that there is a correlation between this idea and the repercussions of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate" rel="nofollow">Bose-Einstein Condensate</a> which Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-48874786205307919842010-01-11T23:53:06.414-05:002010-01-11T23:53:06.414-05:00Nature's secrets are hard to wrest from her no...Nature's secrets are hard to wrest from her now.Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451666670728177970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-90290872634085452002010-01-11T17:33:59.159-05:002010-01-11T17:33:59.159-05:00Hi Jérôme,
thanks for pointing out this compilati...Hi Jérôme,<br /><br />thanks for pointing out this compilation - I didn't know it yet, seems interesting. It is here on Google Books:<br /><br /><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=jnVldwfUxy4C" rel="nofollow">Sources et évolution de la physique quantique: textes fondateurs</a><br />by José Leite Lopes, Bruno Escoubès.<br /><br />The Einstein "photon" paper in the compilation,stefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09495628046446378453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-21368041234496505652010-01-11T16:24:07.615-05:002010-01-11T16:24:07.615-05:00Hi Jerome, yes, definitely "another time"...Hi Jerome, yes, definitely "another time".Andrew Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03852211910001840777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-60966251081089364282010-01-11T16:05:39.118-05:002010-01-11T16:05:39.118-05:00Hi Andrew,
I definitely agree with you. It is in...Hi Andrew, <br /><br />I definitely agree with you. It is incredible to see how bold were those results, with though pure and simple ideas... We are all bearing this on our minds when we are doing science, hence the frustration.<br /><br />There's a book I like which I commented there:<br /><br />http://journalofafreelancescientist.blogspot.com/2009/12/Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-63592913170716325802010-01-11T15:36:00.757-05:002010-01-11T15:36:00.757-05:00I think Einstein's situation is quite like tha...I think Einstein's situation is quite like that of the Beatles. They were both undoubted geniuses, but they were also the first in when a new field was emerging so there was plenty of opportunity for rapid progress, and there was not nearly so much competition about as there is nowadays. So now we look back on them all as these untouchable geniuses, but there was more than a little touch of &Andrew Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03852211910001840777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-51180453474699073762010-01-11T14:41:27.489-05:002010-01-11T14:41:27.489-05:00I wonder what insights Einstein would be having if...I wonder what insights Einstein would be having if he was alive today. I doubt he'd find it so easy.<br /><br />He lived in a time when progress could be made via thought experiments - costing no money. It seems that nowadays our experiments have to cost 8 billion dollars.Andrew Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03852211910001840777noreply@blogger.com