tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post4887676781300587664..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Science changed my life – and yours too.Sabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-21513645899582287862014-09-11T12:38:12.764-04:002014-09-11T12:38:12.764-04:00Bee,
I wonder how steady a companion curiosity ha...Bee,<br /><br />I wonder how steady a companion curiosity has been for human kind; perhaps it too has evolved. Apparently we lived a million years without learning to improve the edges of our rudimentary stone tools. <br /><br />Surely there was something there, an embryonic impulse to link precedent with consequent. Perhaps play behavior was our first experience of experimental result.<br /><br Don Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04814669413022486958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-50734190311427316792014-09-09T21:04:16.448-04:002014-09-09T21:04:16.448-04:00Andrei,
I take it your ideas of efficient complex...Andrei,<br /><br />I take it your ideas of efficient complexity did not foresee this necessary negative moment in the emergence of something that will change our lives for the better. As empires and theories rise and fall blaming the gods of the day perhaps some of us need sentimental dreams or great books, some of us need to play monopoly to escape hard times of depression.<br />But thanks for L. Edgar Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525169618204198073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-12388532600709621172014-09-09T15:37:49.268-04:002014-09-09T15:37:49.268-04:00Contrary to previous, yet relatively recent, times...Contrary to previous, yet relatively recent, times, fundamental science HAS STOPPED changing our lives, already since many decades - in any usual or “advanced” sense one wants to insert (as opposed to applied research, though also basically slowing down). And you know it pretty well, together with Laflamme who is “fantastic” especially as a liar about great successes and perspectives of “quantum Andrei Kirilyukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407274342959324969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-58894799676811491762014-09-09T05:22:32.901-04:002014-09-09T05:22:32.901-04:00Unfortunately, there is a STEM (Science Technology...Unfortunately, there is a STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) Crisis in USA..also in England. I got confirmation by Dr xx (female theoretical physicist) from UK university. Forgot her name, couldn't find record of SUSY '06 talks to identify her.<br /><br />"STEM Crisis in USA is a Threat to National Security. Because DoD (Dept of Defense) can't find native B Yen/Getty Images [ iTunes demo ]https://www.blogger.com/profile/00258138866562068722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-36458894939938880582014-09-09T05:21:05.763-04:002014-09-09T05:21:05.763-04:00"In Greece, Wise men speak..FOOLS DECIDE"..."In Greece, Wise men speak..FOOLS DECIDE"<br />-- Anacharsis<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacharsis" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacharsis</a><br /><br />Same thing going on in USA (& other countries). Science ignorant politicians making POOR decisions towards long-term STEM strategy. Fiscal Crisis in Washington DC<br /><br />[ due to B Yen/Getty Images [ iTunes demo ]https://www.blogger.com/profile/00258138866562068722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-46051641681969002912014-09-09T00:43:49.135-04:002014-09-09T00:43:49.135-04:00Edgar,
Sorry about that - the slides should all b...Edgar,<br /><br />Sorry about that - the slides should all be public. It works fine for me, even when I log out from my account, so not sure what is going wrong. Can you try again? Best,<br /><br />SabineSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-80554728465388647842014-09-08T21:29:02.191-04:002014-09-08T21:29:02.191-04:00Mistaking the expanding observable universe for th...Mistaking the expanding observable universe for the Universe. Pricey. Not to mention highly unscientific.Robert L. Oldershawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396555790655312393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-69192168572555864302014-09-08T20:00:15.385-04:002014-09-08T20:00:15.385-04:00Paradigmatic principle like that spoken of in the ...Paradigmatic principle like that spoken of in the previous thread regarding Einstein and his compass needle at a certain age, is more to the point here of something which insights the scientist? <br /><br />It's with her/him from a young age, and for some, they may say that is curiosity? But it's not. It is a deep insight as mentioned, that is sparked by the "anomalistic nature"PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-72698953608408085942014-09-08T19:19:23.637-04:002014-09-08T19:19:23.637-04:00Bubbles rising upward from the ocean, as verified ...Bubbles rising upward from the ocean, as verified by experiment, can do work such as generating electricity,(an Israeli study way back). But rising too fast may cause body cells to rupture and the diver to hallucinate, thus the name "Raptures of the Deep".L. Edgar Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525169618204198073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-39575853431750035822014-09-08T18:57:40.393-04:002014-09-08T18:57:40.393-04:00My Goodness Alice!
Simply assume a Nirvana state ...My Goodness Alice!<br /><br />Simply assume a Nirvana state is a premonition and/or promise for all those striving for this state WITHOUT quantum physics.<br /><br />Simply assume a quantum superposition is a state where the premonition and promise mentioned in the first sentence remains just that - a premonition and promise.<br /><br />You know, like Democritus' atom PREMONITION.<br /><br /hushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16176588791118304829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-56913647712490769652014-09-08T17:59:52.536-04:002014-09-08T17:59:52.536-04:00If intellectual enlightenment is motivated by curi...If intellectual enlightenment is motivated by curiosity then I believe such enlightenment may be like a Rapture, not religiously spoken, but intellectually satisfying.PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-7408618825379387142014-09-08T15:34:57.582-04:002014-09-08T15:34:57.582-04:00"Scientists today think deeply rather than cl..."<i>Scientists today think deeply rather than clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Todays scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no basis in reality.</i>" – Nikola Tesla, 1932. <br />I think, Tesla would be surprised today Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4892643115202594042014-09-08T15:06:28.888-04:002014-09-08T15:06:28.888-04:00I can't say that science change my life. I can...I can't say that science change my life. I can instead to say that science saved my life. It helped me to overcome the worst days of my entire life. It gave me the balance I needed. A place where to lead my mind to get some restnemohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07365330980872106443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-83584461627752185442014-09-08T14:46:16.884-04:002014-09-08T14:46:16.884-04:00Sabine,
The Laflamme presentation slides were mos...Sabine,<br /><br />The Laflamme presentation slides were most impressive, a hymn to control of the technology and engineering.<br />(I could not access the others.) A declaration, moreover, of an era which combines two frontier ideas, each perhaps not yet clearly defined - information and quanta. The flow is in the main optimistic, even in an indifferent universe or perhaps a region where L. Edgar Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525169618204198073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-31736749020834077692014-09-08T13:43:11.233-04:002014-09-08T13:43:11.233-04:00The two Steves and Apple began as inventing and se...The two Steves and Apple began as inventing and selling telephone digital (vs. analog) blue boxes. Grant funding "socially significant" research is, as Luboš Motl is fond of Czeching, "bullšit." The singular sustained driver of communications technology - money, content, volume - Officially does not exist,<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-89465638003362144172014-09-08T12:44:28.935-04:002014-09-08T12:44:28.935-04:00"
The variational principle, made popular in ...<i>"<br />The variational principle, made popular in Leibnitz’ conclusion that we live in the “best of all possible worlds”, a world that must be “optimal” in some sense, has been hugely influential and eventually spun off the belief in self-organization, in the existence of an “invisible hand” that will lead societies to an optimal state, and that we better not try to outsmart."</i><brPhillip Helbighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-64726499543207919532014-09-08T11:45:41.974-04:002014-09-08T11:45:41.974-04:00/* ..Knowing that the universe expands and will fo.../* ..Knowing that the universe expands and will forever continue to expand: Priceless... */<br /><br />We don't know it - it's just mainstream interpretation of the light scattering with density fluctuations at distance. What we only KNOW is, the light of distant objects gets reddish.<br /><br />That is to say: to know something is not the same like to believe in something. Currently we Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-18148432777711565282014-09-08T11:01:03.879-04:002014-09-08T11:01:03.879-04:00Plato: Thanks, I fixed that typo. I think most res...Plato: Thanks, I fixed that typo. I think most researchers are in for the curiosity, not for the rapture. Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-59796063166219364432014-09-08T10:58:14.599-04:002014-09-08T10:58:14.599-04:00Giotis:
Indeed, I think the old Greeks were much ...Giotis:<br /><br />Indeed, I think the old Greeks were much ahead of us in how they valued discussion and reason. It is no coincidence that much of today's progress goes back in some way to this intellectual spirit which, unfortunately, we seem to have lost. Don't get me wrong there, I am not saying applications are not important, I am just saying that this isn't the only thing that&#Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-80784020366759987342014-09-08T09:53:24.090-04:002014-09-08T09:53:24.090-04:00You must really love then the ancient Greek civili...You must really love then the ancient Greek civilization Sabine for which only the upper half of the figure, with the direct link included, was applicable (and the arrows were more or less of qual width). The lower half of the circle left the Greeks completely indifferent.Giotishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03594944884584261018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-52515418629980130932014-09-08T09:49:27.952-04:002014-09-08T09:49:27.952-04:00Yes, I should of opened up PDF first and had a loo...Yes, I should of opened up PDF first and had a look.:)<br /><br />In a sense you don't open up an institute(IQC) without realizing what is happening with the future and for what is coming?:)PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-38336679623998639472014-09-08T09:32:50.275-04:002014-09-08T09:32:50.275-04:00Bee:"...like Christians talk about the ruptur...<br /><br /><br /> <b> Bee</b>:"...<i>like Christians talk about the rupture.</i>"<br /><br /> I might even be wrong, but I think the word you are looking for is "Rapture."<br /><br /> I think Bee a good comparison here might be in relation to how one might see the quantum world as a biological process. This brings the quantum to a much more natural recognition in our PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-86702189700803886652014-09-08T09:19:59.699-04:002014-09-08T09:19:59.699-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.com