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On Jan 29, 11:40 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 9:13 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On Jan 27, 12:10 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > On Jan 26, 4:19 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > > String theorists: definitely the silliest Einsteinians:
>
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMEAkI-yrQ&feature=related
>
> > > Compare with this:
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> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w
>
> > String theorists: silly but expensive Einsteinians:
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> > 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:
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> 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

Note how desperately silly Smolin asks sillier Damour what would
happen if the speed of photons is not constant. Sillier Damour
believes there is nothing to worry about: after all, string theory
presupposes a lot of Lorentz violations. Bold Damour is going to go
beyond Einstein - he wants to have constants that vary.

Pentcho Valev
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