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On Jan 29, 9:13 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 12:10 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 26, 4:19 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > String theorists: definitely the silliest Einsteinians:
>
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMEAkI-yrQ&feature=related
>
> > Compare with this:
>
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w
>
> String theorists: silly but expensive Einsteinians:
>
> http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/physics-prof-pr.html
> "Physics Prof Proposes String Theory Test (But It'll Cost Us). The
> apparent inability of physics' string theory to be proved right or
> wrong is one of the stickiest - and argument-generating - problems in
> modern science. But now researchers at the University of Illinois say
> they might have a way to test some of string theory's predictions.
> Only problem? It'll be very, very expense. String theory is probably
> the most well-fleshed out candidate today for a so-called Theory of
> Everything. That means that it would integrate virtually everything we
> know about physics thus far, including the microscopic observations of
> the sub-atomic world and events that happen on a galaxy-wide scale,
> and follow the rules of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity."

Amazingly, string theorists believe that quantum gravity theorists are
the silliest Einsteinians:

http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/06/lee-smolin-vs-thibault-damour.html
Motl: "Damour has argued that not even Smolin can be so limited that
he would actually believe the naive Popperian dogmas. Well, I am
afraid that Smolin is much more stupid than Damour can even imagine.
Accepting statements of philosophers as dogmas, blowing them out of
proportion, applying them behind the range of their validity
regardless of physical arguments, and using them to organize witch
hunts is something that Lee Smolin is very good at."

Those who know French could easily see that quantum gravity theorist
Lee Smolin is silly indeed but string theorist Thibault Damour is much
sillier:

http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/college/v2/html/2006_2007/conferences/conference_342.htm

Pentcho valev
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