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How Physics Lost Its Fizz: Physics is now just recycling once-exciting ideas
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| January 18, 2016
| John Horgan
Posted on 01/21/2016 12:52:39 PM PST by Trumpinator
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I have been exploring the heretical electric universe theory lately. It's the only model that the macro universe can be reproduced on the micro scale - or something.
http://www.electricuniverse.info/Introduction
To: Trumpinator
We need more mad crazy scientists doing all sorts of crazy things... Science has become too much of a dogma...
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01/21/2016 12:55:12 PM PST
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GraceG
(The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
To: GraceG
Laboratory science
Plasmas are strongly influenced by electro-magnetic forces. A laboratory simulation of two interacting electric "Birkeland" currents, models many characteristics of galaxy formation. The Electric Universe is based on the known properties of plasmas, in preference to unproven theoretical physics, and consequently does not require black holes, dark matter and dark energy, neutron stars and the Big Bang.
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01/21/2016 12:57:27 PM PST
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Trumpinator
("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
To: Trumpinator
Two non-scientific wacko ideas:
1. Alternate universes. An infinity of them.
2. The Universe popping in and out of existence.
Anyone who proposes them is no longer a scientist.
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01/21/2016 12:58:19 PM PST
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: Trumpinator
I remember reading such talk about the field of Optics a few decades ago. With the explosion of technology for fiberoptic communications, electro-optic materials, etc., that talk has vanished.
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01/21/2016 1:00:09 PM PST
by
redgolum
To: Trumpinator
"That's why I left String Theory."
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01/21/2016 1:00:17 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
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01/21/2016 1:03:36 PM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: I want the USA back
There is more evidence of an intelligently designed universe than one populated by infinite alternate realities.
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01/21/2016 1:06:04 PM PST
by
Trumpinator
("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
To: fishtank
Perverted? At least you’re fully aware of it.
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01/21/2016 1:06:20 PM PST
by
subterfuge
(TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
To: Trumpinator
To: Trumpinator
Physicists' fantasies about parallel and virtual realms are not just stale. Increasingly, they strike me as escapist and even irresponsible, because they are so lacking in evidence. Scientists shouldn't have to serve the public good any more than poets or musicians. I would agree with that if they were spending their own money or the money of a private benefactor. But most of them are spending public funds, so called federal grants. Such funds should be doled out sparingly to projects that promise real dividends in real time (DARPA).
Pie in the sky research should be funded privately. Too much of government funded research has become politicized and needs to be defunded.
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01/21/2016 1:12:59 PM PST
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Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: I want the USA back
Two non-scientific wacko ideas:
1. Alternate universes. An infinity of them.
2. The Universe popping in and out of existence.
Anyone who proposes them is no longer a scientist. LOL, you've never recovered from that double-split experiment, and now you want to silence those who acknowledge it.
Collectivism is fueled by strange sources.
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01/21/2016 1:16:00 PM PST
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Trumpinator
But if theories are being passed off as science, shouldnââ¬â¢t they have at least a remote chance of being empirically corroborated? Otherwise, how do they differ from pseudoscientific ideas like intelligent design? AT least intelligent design is privately funded. If it is a waste at least it is wasted money voluntarily given and not money taken from individuals by force.
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01/21/2016 1:16:24 PM PST
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Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Pontiac
There is a theory out there that has some reproducible results in the lab that shows the universe operates like a virtual simulation. That sounds very much like intelligent design to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_yPsGCbKaY
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01/21/2016 1:22:41 PM PST
by
Trumpinator
("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
To: Trumpinator
Instead, physics has devolved into an cerebral circle jerk expounding ridiculous ideas like string theory, alternate universes, time travel, and dark matter. A bunch of Steven Hawking-induced claptrap designed to force reality to conform to some obscure equation, instead of the equation reflecting the reality.
Oh, for the days of Einstein again ...
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01/21/2016 1:22:58 PM PST
by
IronJack
To: IronJack
People are starting to think about modern physics: “there is no there there”.
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01/21/2016 1:25:54 PM PST
by
Trumpinator
("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
To: I want the USA back
You doubt that some of us are living in alternative realities?
To: Trumpinator
questions that we cannot answer... because the laws of physics themselves forbid it.They fought the law and the law won.
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01/21/2016 1:26:49 PM PST
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MUDDOG
To: Trumpinator
Note to self - I am pleasantly surprised this posting is getting some good comments. All politics is boring all the time.
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01/21/2016 1:26:54 PM PST
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Trumpinator
("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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