Posted on 08/31/2021 6:54:37 AM PDT by Bogle
"To situate “A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation?” in the scientific world in which it was written, the practice of theoretical physics is often an exercise in fabulism: you propose something new and strange that appears to fit with established theory and observations and then — this is the hard part — follow the ever-branching consequences of your new idea to see if there are any contradictions that might arise. After justifying those contradictions, you make or someone else makes a prediction, however outlandish or futuristic, and you wait for the moment between tomorrow and one hundred years from now that it is proved or disproved."
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LMAO! It’s all a shell game!
His final paper said: Sheldon was right all along but don’t tell him that!”
Stephen Hawking was bitter to the very end about the absence of the NP...
He just needed the patience to stick around for about 500-to-1000 million years (that is about 1,000,000,000 years) when we will know for sure if his namesake radiation is working as postulated...
He was definitely a useful idiot. I don’t believe he was as smart as a lot of people claimed he was.
Heck, he was a brilliant theoretical physicist, I wouldn’t argue that point.
But in the same way that Babe Ruth may have been able to knock a ball out of a stadium but was unqualified to speak about monetary policy during the Depression, I don’t have any expectation that Hawking would have had an opinion on reconditioning a 1957 Chevy that would have been superior to mine...or anyone elses.
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