tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post4516663720966844418..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Luboš MotlSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-2455212392241490282018-09-12T11:02:47.536-04:002018-09-12T11:02:47.536-04:00I only recently discovered Lubos Motl when I was s...I only recently discovered Lubos Motl when I was searching for information on the work of Cohl Furey and found Motl bashing her and her work (he was attacking Lisi at the same time) on his blog. <br /><br />I found this blog a week or so later, but never thought I'd see his name here. My understanding is that Motl has hitched his wagon to string theory, which has benefited his career Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12190790632169544377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-53841726935747148322016-06-09T05:22:17.122-04:002016-06-09T05:22:17.122-04:00Bee, you wrote (a long time ago): "I honestly...Bee, you wrote (a long time ago): "I honestly can't understand why he behaves like this."<br /><br />Having read his newest rant against you and the comment section to it on his web site (I'm now sorry I did), the answer seems obvious:<br /><br />His site is riddled with all kinds of ads. So the more hits he gets, the more he earns with it. Spectacularly insulting people gets Matthiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11262429556378215828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-71855679718283385252016-03-30T03:59:46.736-04:002016-03-30T03:59:46.736-04:00Just found your blog. Even if this article is from...Just found your blog. Even if this article is from 2007, it still comes up within top 10 results when I searched for this guy. And the reason I searched because he's a top contributor to Physics Stack Exchange, and seemed like he really knew what he was talking about.<br /><br />Unfortunately, while browsing on a mobile phone, one of his posts with thoughts on gay marriage popped up even Groohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00214561719451131417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-13708709040927390032016-01-22T13:34:18.620-05:002016-01-22T13:34:18.620-05:00I'm pretty sure that Lubos has a crush on you....I'm pretty sure that Lubos has a crush on you. LOL.Shawn Halaykahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12835063537467215482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-21047413125064418182016-01-21T19:34:13.135-05:002016-01-21T19:34:13.135-05:00I was shocked when I read his something on his bl...I was shocked when I read his something on his blog today for the first time and decided to google around a little bit to have an idea about him. Now I know. What an idiot. fransamsterdamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06057532896154355652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-44019571600108462722011-05-08T03:01:51.464-04:002011-05-08T03:01:51.464-04:00I tried to remind Lubos of the fact that the impor...I tried to remind Lubos of the fact that the important one is not IQ, but EQ. Emotions. Lubos acts very emotionally, but the fact that he refuse to deal with it makes him repeat and repeat forever his frustrations. Emotions must be assimilated and made aware, they cannot be neutralized by acting them out.<br /><br />It seems the bad luck for M-theory at LHC exaggerates Lubos acting. As it would Ullahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16634036177244152897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-56598636744309094002011-04-28T06:54:33.029-04:002011-04-28T06:54:33.029-04:00Lubos Motl brings to my mind a document film about...Lubos Motl brings to my mind a document film about child genius whose genius manifested as a superior ability in IQ tests. No wonder, since he had concentrated all his mental powers to IQ tests.<br /><br />Amazingly, this young IQ genius was completely unable to understand what ordinary people talked to him. He also treated his mother in extremely cruel manner in a pubic occasion.<br /><br /><Matti Pitkänenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13512912323574611883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-5764588406703315352009-09-03T07:08:47.161-04:002009-09-03T07:08:47.161-04:00Guys, this is all well and fine, but this isn'...Guys, this is all well and fine, but this isn't the place to discuss the arrow of time. Could you please do this elsewhere? Thanks, B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-32378393804889973012009-09-03T07:04:46.079-04:002009-09-03T07:04:46.079-04:00LM has merely re-posted here the same stuff from h...LM has merely re-posted here the same stuff from his crank blog.<br /><br />As I said: we can all read Joel Lebowitz' article in Scholarpedia, where it is said that the continuing evolution from low to high entropy that we see around us is due to the fact that the entropy was so extremely low at the big bang, and that ultra-low-entropy state is still unwinding. Everything about the Arrow was Archer of Timenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-88977055159777566642009-09-03T01:50:46.500-04:002009-09-03T01:50:46.500-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-16986128125747592062009-09-02T02:44:23.911-04:002009-09-02T02:44:23.911-04:00Just to be sure, I agree with Haelfix 100%. We'...Just to be sure, I agree with Haelfix 100%. We're saying the same thing.<br /><br />I surely don't "deny" that the early Universe - and early anything - had a low entropy. In fact, I am pretty sure that the right number to assicate with it is zero. I just deny that it's everything one needs to derive the arrow of time; and I deny that the existence of a strict beginning is Luboš Motlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17487263983247488359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-9479221158311528462009-09-01T20:25:12.861-04:002009-09-01T20:25:12.861-04:00"Archer, I think a lot of the arrow of time f..."Archer, I think a lot of the arrow of time fuss is semantic in nature, and if I understand Lubos's argument correctly I am in full agreement with him."<br /><br />No offence, but I'm pretty sure that you *don't* understand his argument. Which is nothing to be ashamed of, in view of his incoherence.<br /><br />"The following statement is afaics not controversial (Archer of Timenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-32665959921451833362009-09-01T09:09:46.803-04:002009-09-01T09:09:46.803-04:00Archer, I think a lot of the arrow of time fuss is...Archer, I think a lot of the arrow of time fuss is semantic in nature, and if I understand Lubos's argument correctly I am in full agreement with him.<br /><br />The following statement is afaics not controversial (essentially Feynmans view) except by a few holdouts.. The H theorem is correct, and together with the low entropy initial condition completely defines the arrow of time. No need Haelfixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-45831608511714351222009-08-31T23:41:56.954-04:002009-08-31T23:41:56.954-04:00Dear Arun, you have got it exactly wrong. Read the...Dear Arun, you have got it exactly wrong. Read the final part of Lebowitz -- the part about Initial Conditions. For example,<br /><br />"Put differently, where ultimately do initial conditions come from? In thinking about this we are led more or less inevitably to introduce cosmological considerations by postulating an initial "macrostate of the universe" having a very small Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-87153773745452701162009-08-31T11:24:38.315-04:002009-08-31T11:24:38.315-04:00This at scholarpedia agrees with Motl - the parado...<a href="http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Time%27s_arrow_and_Boltzmann%27s_entropy" rel="nofollow">This at scholarpedia</a> agrees with Motl - the paradox was resolved a hundred years ago.Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451666670728177970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-72778114940945003512009-08-30T23:31:22.216-04:002009-08-30T23:31:22.216-04:00Over at Cosmic Variance, Dieter Zeh remarks that &...Over at Cosmic Variance, Dieter Zeh remarks that "The author says in the first paragraph that irreversibility has been claimed to arise from decoherence. This is wrong: decoherence is an irreversible process that REQUIRES an arrow of time. In fact, he remarks at the end of page 3 (published version?) that correlations “build up” continuously, thus leading to decoherence."<br /><br />Archer of Timenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-78167286029836717642009-08-27T21:56:07.484-04:002009-08-27T21:56:07.484-04:00Another long boring crackpot diatribe from LM abou...Another long boring crackpot diatribe from LM about the Arrow of Time today. He's really obsessed about this; obviously Sean Carroll has done something that seriously annoyed him, since we all know that LM's "scientific" views are based entirely on his insecurities. Interesting fact: LM took a class from Joel Lebowitz at Rutgers.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer of Timenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-21882787916087515772009-06-15T21:32:56.899-04:002009-06-15T21:32:56.899-04:00Lubos was recently the star, along with the freres...Lubos was recently the star, along with the freres Bogdanoff, of a major conference, titled <br /><br />"La tête dans son cul, les pieds dans sa bouche".<br /><br />See here:<br /><br />http://www.villeneuve-yonne.fr/fr/agenda/tete_etoile.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28566145223802841102009-06-02T23:16:52.496-04:002009-06-02T23:16:52.496-04:00The key thing to understand in the LM saga is that...The key thing to understand in the LM saga is that, to *some* extent, the things he says reflect the thinking of *many* physicists, particularly string theorists. The difference is that most adults have better self-control than LM, and so are careful not to say these things openly. Here I'm not talking only about his statements about *people* like Smolin or Sabine H; I'm talking about theTom O'Bullsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-30680263117187520452009-05-22T20:58:11.587-04:002009-05-22T20:58:11.587-04:00Bee posted......But lately it takes too much time ...Bee posted......But lately it takes too much time to read his nonsense and to clarify at least the worst accusations. <br /><br />I honestly can't understand why he behaves like this.<br />Bee, the guy is off his rocker is loco or loca.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-39718897620113067442009-05-21T18:48:36.555-04:002009-05-21T18:48:36.555-04:00to make himself get "fired" from a harvard assista...to make himself get "fired" from a harvard assistant proffesorship paints entirely the picture of Lubos Motl "mind". Whatever is doing now is many orders of magnitud more inefectual and unimportant than before. Let him swim in his vitriol.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-64692839414909018262009-05-18T01:51:00.000-04:002009-05-18T01:51:00.000-04:00Insane in the P-brane.Insane in the P-brane.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-36084828697377895702009-04-22T06:47:00.000-04:002009-04-22T06:47:00.000-04:00Aren't we all?Aren't we all?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-761191426731554242009-04-18T21:32:00.000-04:002009-04-18T21:32:00.000-04:00I think you are attracted to Lubos.I think you are attracted to Lubos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-88656764561351494192009-04-12T19:09:00.000-04:002009-04-12T19:09:00.000-04:00I think it's sad that a smart person like Lubos wo...I think it's sad that a smart person like Lubos would just go nuts and destroy his own reputation so completely. I'm not a physicist but was curious to find out more about him after reading a blog in which he solved a problem in computer science while an undergraduate. A casual search of the first page on Google told me he's both bright and boorish.<BR/><BR/>I'm intrigued by Arun's observation Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com