tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post9161168227667188788..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: We talk too much.Sabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-79350882729576003892014-10-26T12:09:31.880-04:002014-10-26T12:09:31.880-04:00Giotis,
Perelman is right for if true then every ...Giotis,<br /><br />Perelman is right for if true then every thinker has such an varied private perspective manifold.<br /><br />For him to accept either award shows that the lonely isolation of thinkers is not understood by those who wish it true on a certain level. It shows great character not to accept and thereby endorse a closed but true lesser vision.<br /><br />In a sense he has stood in L. Edgar Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525169618204198073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1193290642168906702014-10-25T18:59:24.148-04:002014-10-25T18:59:24.148-04:00Giotis,
If information is not to be found in the ...Giotis,<br /><br />If information is not to be found in the literature of physics how can it be from on the internet? There is no guarentee, regardless of genius, that even given all the information that someone can make or see the next leap of a better theory. So math, physics, and our states of individual or collective minds do interrelate as to what can be achieved as breakthroughs.<br /><brL. Edgar Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525169618204198073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-10127605462468455102014-10-25T12:37:16.919-04:002014-10-25T12:37:16.919-04:00Alice,
The prototypes of detailed balance are Mom...Alice,<br /><br />The prototypes of detailed balance are Moms [or Dads] and twins [or more]. Rubber rings are emergent.<br /><br />The formalism of detailed balance here can only obscure the real relationships between Moms and twins.<br /><br />Farts, witches, men, ass, arch mench, mensch, arsch if in fact belonging to the laws of motion (kinematics) and the laws of forces (dynamics) governed hushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16176588791118304829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-89843803671969756882014-10-23T09:02:25.209-04:002014-10-23T09:02:25.209-04:00While Goitis pointed to Perelman, it is important ...While Goitis pointed to Perelman, it is important that one see's the summation of whee the research has gone in terms not only of the experiments but to see where the abstract thoughts may have extended versions of the limits of knowledge. Prof. Susskind was accurate to use the word "update," in order to keep abreast of where the collaborations have been taken. Without doing the PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-32457843824579655682014-10-23T08:55:33.835-04:002014-10-23T08:55:33.835-04:00Bee:Today’s disease is called rainbow loom. It spr...<b>Bee</b>:<i>Today’s disease is called rainbow loom. It spreads via wrist bands that you are supposed to crochet together from rubber rings</i><br /><br />I have twin grand daughters age 7, and their sister 8 and I was quite surprised that this Rainbow loom had as many bands as it did. Of course my older granddaughter did the traditional bracelet for me, but surprised me with the architecture ofPlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-1741374805162972352014-10-23T04:23:28.581-04:002014-10-23T04:23:28.581-04:00Zephir:
"it just means, you're not actu...Zephir: <br /><br />"it just means, you're not actually interested about what I'm thinking about your post"<br /><br />As my mother likes to say, even a blind chicken sometimes finds a grain.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-84204058210538299612014-10-22T22:38:49.283-04:002014-10-22T22:38:49.283-04:00I just wrote a long comment then realized I was ta...I just wrote a long comment then realized I was talking too much. So I deleted it and will just say, thanks for another interesting and well-written post.JimVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10198704789965278981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-43999882892591218352014-10-22T13:51:52.209-04:002014-10-22T13:51:52.209-04:00I do realize, that your feeling of lack of communi...I do realize, that your feeling of lack of communication (or even interest about work of others) in your community is the particular problem of general physics (gr-qc) theorists. The solid phase physicists still don't suffer this problem (so much), because their field is already fragmented into smaller topics, where everyone can know the research of others and this knowledge would be even Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-72962719187130006432014-10-22T13:10:35.287-04:002014-10-22T13:10:35.287-04:00/* point of my writing is to make the reader think.../* point of my writing is to make the reader think */<br /><br />So I did it and I just found your writing inconsistent. If you don't want to answer me or even read me here, it just means, you're not actually interested about what I'm thinking about your post. Why do you care whether the people think about it, if such a point cannot be proven in observational way?<br /><br />The Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-72014334844167418932014-10-22T12:20:24.703-04:002014-10-22T12:20:24.703-04:00Zephir: The point of my writing is to make the rea...Zephir: The point of my writing is to make the reader think. In your case that's a lost cause. If you want to know my personal opinion, maybe at least read the title, yes? Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-55901705967242698322014-10-22T11:54:13.926-04:002014-10-22T11:54:13.926-04:00Your attitude is actually quite typical for contem...Your attitude is actually quite typical for contemporary physicists, who are combining the mutually inconsistent theories (QM + GR), which are leading to opposite predictions, because they're based on dual observational perspectives. <br /><br />They're not able to realize it, so they combine various landscapes of solutions and they subsequently call for less twaddling and better Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-78680234749477714602014-10-22T11:48:29.738-04:002014-10-22T11:48:29.738-04:00/* ..if you don't like my writing.. */
It has .../* ..if you don't like my writing.. */<br />It has nothing to do with personal attitude... I personally enjoy the search for inconsistencies in stance of mainstream physicists.;-)<br /><br />So do you call for more cooperative approach with wider communication - or do you (...scientists?) talk too much? What's your actual stance in this matter? Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-65914161592016827222014-10-22T11:20:19.139-04:002014-10-22T11:20:19.139-04:00A more enlightened reading of Swift's percepti...A more enlightened reading of Swift's perceptive quip would include the following.<br /><br />The confederacy of dunces ignores quacks because they pose no significant threat to the status quo of the dunces.<br /><br />The confederacy feels the need to discredit the true genius because he/she does pose a serious threat to their status quo.<br /><br />Swift was right. Mr. bean-counter is Robert L. Oldershawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396555790655312393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-80331202858187252752014-10-22T09:29:05.329-04:002014-10-22T09:29:05.329-04:00Jonathan Swift: "When a true genius appears, ...<i>Jonathan Swift: "When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."</i><br /><br />Yes, perhaps. But the converse is not necessarily true, i.e. someone who perceives himself surrounded by confederated dunces is not necessarily a true genius.<br /><br />(Murray Gell-Mann once said "If I can see farther than others, Phillip Helbighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-91485909471301131982014-10-22T08:05:33.395-04:002014-10-22T08:05:33.395-04:00Phillip: Ack!Phillip: Ack!Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-81044236231080483422014-10-22T08:04:29.415-04:002014-10-22T08:04:29.415-04:00Zephir: Your "summary" of this article m...Zephir: Your "summary" of this article makes me think that you can't read. It is amazing how you manage to "quote" sentences I never wrote, misunderstand others as the opposite of what they mean, and altogether don't manage draw the simplest connections. This probably explains why you never seem to understand anything I explain to you. If you don't like my writing,Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-76391851895255003292014-10-22T07:11:02.287-04:002014-10-22T07:11:02.287-04:00Whole this post lacks its own introspection. The t...Whole this post lacks its own introspection. The title says: "We talk too much", bellow we can read: "lone genius is indeed a myth" and at the end "we should enforce the collaborative approach". During this we can read many personal notes, like the "Our daughters are in rainbow looms" or "I’m a miserable cook". <br /><br />Maybe it was just an Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-32345829599143313202014-10-22T06:36:17.727-04:002014-10-22T06:36:17.727-04:00/* There lonely genius of course has always been .../* There lonely genius of course has always been a myth */<br /><br />Jonathan Swift: "When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-48186242984479845882014-10-22T06:34:23.364-04:002014-10-22T06:34:23.364-04:00/* We talk too much */
It's a nice attitude, .../* We talk too much */<br /><br />It's a nice attitude, indeed - but aren't just you the regular winner of FOXI essays and traveler around conferences? What about the Dunning-Krueger effect actually is?Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-26223271742868636002014-10-22T04:52:38.169-04:002014-10-22T04:52:38.169-04:00prices ---> prizesprices ---> prizes<br />Phillip Helbighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-72993888493553887152014-10-22T01:03:47.544-04:002014-10-22T01:03:47.544-04:00Giotis,
I don't know. My guess is it's a ...Giotis,<br /><br />I don't know. My guess is it's a network thing. You need the community to pass you on to your next job, otherwise you're out. It's a selection bias. There are of course problems that are better solved in groups. Maybe these are becoming more, or maybe these are becoming less, I don't know. That might be part of it. But mostly I think it's the believe Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-24566837208066760212014-10-21T20:31:07.967-04:002014-10-21T20:31:07.967-04:00Team players and independent mavericks tend to vie...Team players and independent mavericks tend to view the history of science and the role of team play vs independent discovery quite differently.<br /><br />If one knows enough of the biographical background, then one knows that people like Kepler, Galileo, Faraday, Einstein, and Mandelbrot were not physically "alone", but they (and many others) felt that they were breaking new ground Robert L. Oldershawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396555790655312393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-40474620584738511222014-10-21T17:30:29.808-04:002014-10-21T17:30:29.808-04:00http://www.amazon.com/Suck-UK-COMEGO1627-Come-In-A...http://www.amazon.com/Suck-UK-COMEGO1627-Come-In-Ambigram/dp/B0010C9XG4<br /><br />Doormat for the socially realistic.Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4063225853027912802014-10-21T14:19:42.922-04:002014-10-21T14:19:42.922-04:00Now Goethe said that "He who has much within ...Now Goethe said that "He who has much within needs very little from without."<br /><br />Nietzsche observed in the passion of the creative act that love was the danger to the loneliest one - love if it only lives" If there is in any sense the Creator, or we who strive to create as some ultimate image, then God is the loneliest one of all which the scriptures say the purpose for L. Edgar Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525169618204198073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-49167547725746451632014-10-21T13:48:44.726-04:002014-10-21T13:48:44.726-04:00Sabine,
a very readable story that so many aver...Sabine, <br /> a very readable story that so many average prols could agree with or editors would pay for because shared general human interest sells.<br /><br />This is what I imagined, I a little tired lately with other things would be the next installment of an ongoing story, but before writing it I knew it would not come out right so set it aside for now. It may be of limited interest to a L. Edgar Ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525169618204198073noreply@blogger.com