tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post6157922876900663579..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Advent calendar #15: The end is nighSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-64127277413141501302011-12-24T10:10:38.058-05:002011-12-24T10:10:38.058-05:00Michelson continues directly from that quotation, ...Michelson continues directly from that quotation, on pages 22-3 of A.A. Michelson <i>Light Waves and Their Uses</i>, 1903:<br /><br />"Nevertheless, it has been found that there are apparent exceptions to most of these laws, and this is particularly true when the observations are pushed to a limit, i.e., whenever the circumstances of experiment are such that extreme cases can be examined. nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03402194253543690982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-53257574574040956802011-12-16T10:01:00.366-05:002011-12-16T10:01:00.366-05:00I DO see, and thanks for responding Plato, dear ol...I DO see, and thanks for responding Plato, dear old friend. ;-)Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-60896299811284607182011-12-16T09:23:32.990-05:002011-12-16T09:23:32.990-05:00It's not really an ending but truly a beginnin...It's not really an ending but truly a beginning, you see.PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-22156315534305161612011-12-16T09:21:38.290-05:002011-12-16T09:21:38.290-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-80759046390869073512011-12-16T09:20:37.501-05:002011-12-16T09:20:37.501-05:00Steven: We still haven't unified the electrowe...<b>Steven</b>: <i>We still haven't unified the electroweak and strong forces,</i><br /><br />Yes one needs a good comprehension of <a href="http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2011/12/explanation-on-quantum-gravity-in.html" title="Explanation on Quantum Gravity in a Nutshell" rel="nofollow">what it is all about</a>?:)<br /><br />If you approach it the right way it leaves with a question Mark? You PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-41056733328722721332011-12-15T21:32:03.450-05:002011-12-15T21:32:03.450-05:00Michelson's foolish boast are a cautionary tal...Michelson's foolish boast are a cautionary tale, and similar thoughts should not be indulged in now (especially with dark matter and dark energy: most of the universe, inexplicable contents!)Neil Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04564859009749481136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28154861824131197812011-12-15T12:38:41.459-05:002011-12-15T12:38:41.459-05:00The greatest obstacle to understanding reality is ...The greatest obstacle to understanding reality is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. "<i>Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit</i>," Albert Einstein, 1901. Then, he denied quantum mechanics.<br /><br />Do left and right shoes vacuum free fall non-identically? Do chemically and macroscopically identical single crystal bodies in enantiomorphic space groups violateUncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28043570568813868792011-12-15T10:41:59.500-05:002011-12-15T10:41:59.500-05:00It reminds me of the historian who said in 1997 th...It reminds me of the historian who said in 1997 that History is essentially over. Four years later, nine eleven happened.<br /><br />This quote by Michelson, the first American Nobel Prize winner, is understandable given the times. Electromagnetism was less than fifty years old, and Statistical Thermodynamics was fresh. <br /><br />there was so much work to be done in THOSE fields that nobody Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-38719496071737662302011-12-15T10:40:19.210-05:002011-12-15T10:40:19.210-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-18813602985718918022011-12-15T06:19:50.593-05:002011-12-15T06:19:50.593-05:00Hi Bee,
This for me is indicative of a statement ...Hi Bee,<br /><br />This for me is indicative of a statement made by someone more impressed by answers than with questions. <br /><br /><i><b>”Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”</b></i><br /><br />-Voltaire<br /><br /><i><b>”To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” </b><Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-86907906947028509212011-12-15T05:23:09.540-05:002011-12-15T05:23:09.540-05:00Good to think about at a time when people say that...Good to think about at a time when people say that if we find the standard model Higgs, at a mass appropriate for vacuum stability till the Planck scale, then fundamental physics is effectively over.Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451666670728177970noreply@blogger.com