tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post7494561976713646677..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: PS on "The Block Universe"Sabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-48586685172692787612010-08-24T23:02:23.544-04:002010-08-24T23:02:23.544-04:00Hey Bee, can you help me clarify what I'm tryi...Hey Bee, can you help me clarify what I'm trying to say here: http://arationalexplanationforexistence.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-do-we-exist.html<br /><br />thanks!!!Pmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16074347726717618603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-49933069475062137312008-12-07T17:40:00.000-05:002008-12-07T17:40:00.000-05:00If a coin dated 30 BC is an obvious fraud, why not...If a coin dated 30 BC is an obvious fraud, why not one dated 2006? A 2009 coin is legitimate (a month's debate is decided normal to content).<BR/><BR/>Only the present exists. Nothing justifies education, production, or exertion. Tomorrow will arrive unbidden and unchanged. The European Middle Ages had God Himself enforcing inerrant unchanging universal wisdom.<BR/><BR/>Dentistry. Test of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-69113249868681834792008-12-07T17:14:00.000-05:002008-12-07T17:14:00.000-05:00Hi JuanPi,My one grandmother I explained a lot abo...Hi JuanPi,<BR/><BR/>My one grandmother I explained a lot about black holes and Hawking radiation (it was the topic both of my Diploma as well as my PhD thesis), and I recall having had a lengthy discussion with my other grandmother about Special Relativity, that however was before I studied physics, and left me very confused. I don't think the notion of a manifold specifically came up. I usually Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-11334817263967859312008-12-07T10:43:00.000-05:002008-12-07T10:43:00.000-05:00I really like the way you present the fallacies an...I really like the way you present the fallacies and I support rigorous definitions when conclusions are to be derived. Now, about the quote at the end of your post.<BR/>Have you ever tried to explain to your grandmother what "manifold" or a "Lorentzian signature" are?<BR/><BR/>"One man's rigor is another man's mortis" (Bohren and Albrecht 1998).JuanPi Carbajalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04710943376399349416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-7161946195656614622008-12-07T10:40:00.000-05:002008-12-07T10:40:00.000-05:00"Friendly warnings"? What a maroon!"Friendly warnings"? What a maroon!Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451666670728177970noreply@blogger.com