tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post855467032497889667..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Seminar in UppsalaSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-74403417347605678722009-10-01T04:13:23.845-04:002009-10-01T04:13:23.845-04:00/*...being one where not only themselves yet all w.../*...being one where not only themselves yet all would be censored...*/<br /><br />As the density of people increases, public constrains would slow down spreading of ideas inconsistent with existing laws of society up to level, the evolution of further understanding will freeze like spreading of information through black hole.<br /><br />Contemporary science is serving mostly like salary machine:Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4238523452165037022009-10-01T03:59:13.080-04:002009-10-01T03:59:13.080-04:00/*...this background (Aether) is always described .../*...this background (Aether) is always described as having a homogenous or holistic in nature...*/<br /><br />vs. from wikipedia source:<br /><br />"<i>He (Descartes) thought everything physical in the universe to be made of tiny "corpuscles" of matter. Corpuscularianism is a viewpoint closely related to atomism. The main difference was that Descartes maintained that there could Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-8062249537042208932009-09-30T21:32:51.976-04:002009-09-30T21:32:51.976-04:00Hi Bee,
”Any advice? “
Unfortunately I can’t off...Hi Bee,<br /><br /><i>”Any advice? “</i><br /><br />Unfortunately I can’t offer much beyond erasing his comments, yet that would be a terrible waste of your time. The interesting thing about people such as our friend Zephir, is that as a result of their apparent lack of restraint , common courtesy and general respect for others, they move the world closer to becoming one that would form to be Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4207771382153104612009-09-30T20:01:58.778-04:002009-09-30T20:01:58.778-04:00/*..and probably not even my blog posts...*/
In th.../*..and probably not even my blog posts...*/<br />In the same way, like you're not interested about my posts. This is particularly funny, because we are interesting about same subject, at least proclamativelly. But this is a undeniable result of spontaneous symmetry breaking due the increasing information density, I cannot be informed about details of your work, I can communicate with it Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4835979850029596422009-09-30T19:29:04.016-04:002009-09-30T19:29:04.016-04:00It's evident, intuitive and formal understandi...It's evident, intuitive and formal understanding of physics will diverge. You're like theorist, who is trying to formulate turbulence by equation just because he doesn't (want to) know, it's impossible. <br /><br />Even at the case, when he can reach some particular result, he wouldn't able to make any meaningful conclusion about it due its complexity and to exchange it with Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-26830405962174231742009-09-30T18:58:52.383-04:002009-09-30T18:58:52.383-04:00Realistically, Zephir, you didn't read a singl...Realistically, Zephir, you didn't read a single of my papers. And probably not even my blog posts. In any case, I don't expect the whole world to share my interests; that would be pretty much a disaster. In return, please accept that I have clearly stated my disinterest in your work, and would appreciate if you would not clog my comment sections with further contributions that are not Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-64302380833488256672009-09-30T18:54:55.659-04:002009-09-30T18:54:55.659-04:00/*...why don't you stop wasting my time..*/
I .../*...why don't you stop wasting my time..*/<br />I assure you, you're not wasting your time - you're helping to understand conceptual problems of contemporary science to another people and I appreciate your apparent patience in this point.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-24268971013897631192009-09-30T18:50:58.816-04:002009-09-30T18:50:58.816-04:00/*..show zero interest in my writing...*/
Try to b.../*..show zero interest in my writing...*/<br />Try to be a bit more realistic, Bee. Why I should be interested about your work? It deals with theory, which brings not testable predictions over one generation of existence, logical explanations the less and I even know, why it behaves so. Your flat-land theory can never describe complex turbulent motion of photons inside of gamma ray solitons in Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-85213508463638241822009-09-30T18:32:39.148-04:002009-09-30T18:32:39.148-04:00Zephir: It is actually worse than that. I am not o...Zephir: It is actually worse than that. I am not only not interested in new ideas, I am specifically not interested in new ideas from pseudonymous commenters on my blog who repeatedly compare themselves to Galileo, scream "censorship" because they don't bother to read as much as our comment policies, show zero interest in my writing, but post an endless amount of self-advertisementsSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-47895569960996390882009-09-30T18:08:24.009-04:002009-09-30T18:08:24.009-04:00/*..Publish a paper, post reference..*/
Well, but .../*..Publish a paper, post reference..*/<br />Well, but this means, no new ideas can appear in discussion bellow your posts, thus resigning creativity and principle of dialectic discussion at all. <br /><br />In addition, when you're allowing only ideas presented somewhere in scope of standard science channels, you're demonstrating singular behavior of sectarian community, which is unable Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-73691478699223165622009-09-30T16:46:28.132-04:002009-09-30T16:46:28.132-04:00Publish a paper, post reference.Publish a paper, post reference.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-79015624805364633042009-09-30T16:44:51.584-04:002009-09-30T16:44:51.584-04:00/*..your comments that do nothing else but advocat.../*..your comments that do nothing else but advocating your own theory...*/<br />Do you know my explanation of GRB090510 photon controversy? Try to show me, how to present it here in "politically correct" way.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-30009981067572719942009-09-30T15:19:25.435-04:002009-09-30T15:19:25.435-04:00:-p:-pSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-76319522412034374122009-09-30T14:59:15.504-04:002009-09-30T14:59:15.504-04:00"How many people read Honecker's newspape..."How many people read Honecker's newspapers in former communist East Germany? Does it say something about their real preferences?"<br /><br />Yes, I don't want to read Bee's blog either but I'm forced to by former Stasi secret agents. Somebody help me! I can't stand reading it anymore!<br /><br />Sorry Bee, i had to tell the truth.Giotisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-73356110955311688582009-09-30T14:23:12.446-04:002009-09-30T14:23:12.446-04:00Zephir: The only posts of yours that I've dele...Zephir: The only posts of yours that I've deleted are those that contained links to your blog, the rest is your paranoia. In any case, since that apparently wasn't clear enough: your comments that do nothing else but advocating your own theory of something are not constructive for anything we're discussing on this blog. <br /><br />In any case, that's enough. If the only thing youSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-33911316344245954612009-09-30T14:17:19.347-04:002009-09-30T14:17:19.347-04:00/*..how many people read your blog compared to my .../*..how many people read your blog compared to my blog..*/<br />How many people read Honecker's newspapers in former communist East Germany? Does it say something about their real preferences? Is it possible to publish article about Aether in mainstream journals like Nature or Science? Mainstream physics is sectarian society from bottom level to the top - but the main problem is, it even Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-17797935906211833612009-09-30T13:25:33.693-04:002009-09-30T13:25:33.693-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-49631272060852201892009-09-30T11:39:41.628-04:002009-09-30T11:39:41.628-04:00Hi Rhys, Phil:
The reason why I've been "...Hi Rhys, Phil: <br />The reason why I've been "forgiving" as you say is that I was hoping to achieve some kind of understanding, or at least simple kindness, that would result in a behavior less annoying for our readers. I am reluctant to delete comments unless unavoidable for the simple reason that people have invested time into them. The question is however what is the smaller Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-37156918801506293482009-09-30T10:00:55.407-04:002009-09-30T10:00:55.407-04:00Zephir:
Do you consider such "present" ...Zephir:<br /><br /><i>Do you consider such "present" situation normal? </i><br /><br />How much about the present state of the world do you consider "normal" and how do you define "normal?" Our world has seen an incredible change within the last 100 years. What makes you assume that progress in physics will continue to proceed in equal or increasing pace forever? <Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-25320589388416693802009-09-30T09:52:56.284-04:002009-09-30T09:52:56.284-04:00Zephir:
Let the people decide, what they're i...Zephir:<br /><br /><i>Let the people decide, what they're interested about, or not - OK? You have no evidence for your claim - whereas I can say safely, many people here are evidently interested in keeping public ideas in quiet as long, as possible. Don't tell me, single link will increase length of this discussion (which contains many links to other private sites anyway). </i><br /><br /Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-29030390557467949892009-09-30T09:45:09.388-04:002009-09-30T09:45:09.388-04:00/*...i have read much of Descartes’ works...*/
I&#.../*...i have read much of Descartes’ works...*/<br />I'm sure you didn't..<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(Descartes)Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28199574302885806312009-09-30T07:10:37.087-04:002009-09-30T07:10:37.087-04:00Hi Zephir,
Could you point me to the text(s) wher...Hi Zephir,<br /><br />Could you point me to the text(s) where Rene Decartes describes the aether as having a particle nature. I have read much of Descartes’ works and this background is always described as having a homogenous or holistic in nature, like an ocean or sea :-) Essentially Descartes was a dualist in his metaphysics, as was Plato, with David Bohm as representing the contemporary Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-53584478210564865612009-09-30T06:58:04.506-04:002009-09-30T06:58:04.506-04:00/*..if by aether you mean something like Irving Se.../*..if by aether you mean something like Irving Segal's model...*/<br />Nope, aether was defined as a massive environment, composed of particles by Rene Descartes. Everything else is just ad-hoced formal model, which may correspond Aether concept, but it needn't to do so.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-81289035477135862132009-09-30T06:44:09.396-04:002009-09-30T06:44:09.396-04:00Hi Rhys,
Sounds like a easy solution, yet I think...Hi Rhys,<br /><br />Sounds like a easy solution, yet I think the authors are also concerned with the transparency of this blog and have perhaps considered the readers they attract can discern for themselves. That’s why for instance I’m most suspicious of blogs where the comments are filtered. <br /><br />No I think it is better they have chosen the ground rules, where relevance and civility Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-63350739992580180342009-09-30T06:27:54.745-04:002009-09-30T06:27:54.745-04:00Bee, I don't think it's really worth argui...Bee, I don't think it's really worth arguing with someone as ignorant as Zephir. Just ban him from commenting, or ignore him completely, and be done with it.Rhyshttp://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/RhysDavies/noreply@blogger.com