tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post115612609615353987..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: The Bumpy White StringSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1156246689480770892006-08-22T07:38:00.000-04:002006-08-22T07:38:00.000-04:00Dear Bee,let me answer your last question: for sec...Dear Bee,<BR/><BR/>let me answer your last question: for security and health reasons, I have switched to sandals. ;-)<BR/><BR/>Best<BR/>LubosLuboš Motlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17487263983247488359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1156203304228685152006-08-21T19:35:00.000-04:002006-08-21T19:35:00.000-04:00Hi Quasar, hi Lubos,without going into the details...Hi Quasar, hi Lubos,<BR/><BR/>without going into the details of your aircraft games, I'd like to point out again that even though competition is the probably most important factor for progress, it requires regulation to function smoothly. Capitalism without regulating laws is likely to lead to monopoles which hinder progress, or vacuum bubbles whose collapse can be disastrous on global level.<BR/Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1156198253226138332006-08-21T18:10:00.000-04:002006-08-21T18:10:00.000-04:00Dear Quasar9, indeed, I am far from a brilliant ac...Dear Quasar9, indeed, I am far from a brilliant academic if this word is supposed to mean something very different from a theorist - such as the academics who fired Summers. ;-) <BR/><BR/>1) I don't think that Concorde superseded anyone because it was an unsafe, oil-consuming technology to show the power of a technology and to focus on very rich consumers who like adventures. It was not a way to Luboš Motlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17487263983247488359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1156152216657764802006-08-21T05:23:00.000-04:002006-08-21T05:23:00.000-04:00REPLY To Lubos Motl:Lubos, you are a smart theoris...REPLY To Lubos Motl:<BR/>Lubos, you are a <EM>smart</EM> theorist, and yet not so brilliant academic.<BR/><BR/>Let me explain:<BR/>1) Would you say logically supersonic flight superceded previous slower transatlantic air travel. Yet concorde has been retired and civil aircraft engineering is about Boeing & Airbus, larger passenger aircraft, about more powerful, more efficient, more silent & 'QUASAR9https://www.blogger.com/profile/00593390598251093182noreply@blogger.com