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Article #5990Re: SYMPTOMS OF DEAD SCIENCE
From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:04
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:04
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23384875-details/Science+and+maths+degrees+in+'irreversible+decline'/article.do "Sciences, maths and languages are suffering an 'IRREVERSIBLE DECLINE' and dying out in British universities, a study has warned....The UCU research uncovered a 10 per cent fall in the number of science and maths courses at UK universities over the last decade, from 250 to 224, with physics and chemistry the worst affected." http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/francis_sedgemore/2006/08/sedgemore_says.html "A FAREWELL TO PHYSICS?" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/03/11/bosmo10.xml "Smolin admits that "we have made no real headway". "We have failed," he says. "It has produced a crisis in physics.".......Einstein may have started the rot. When experiment dominated physics, his work was driven by aesthetic concerns." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v433/n7023/full/433218a.html John Barrow: " Einstein restored faith in the unintelligibility of science. Everyone knew that Einstein had done something important in 1905 (and again in 1915) but almost nobody could tell you exactly what it was. When Einstein was interviewed for a Dutch newspaper in 1921, he attributed his mass appeal to the mystery of his work for the ordinary person: "Does it make a silly impression on me, here and yonder, about my theories of which they cannot understand a word? I think it is funny and also interesting to observe. I am sure that it is the mystery of non-understanding that appeals to them...it impresses them, it has the colour and the appeal of the mysterious. " Einstein zombie world: http://www.bnl.gov/community/Tours/EinsteinPics/Einsteine.jpg http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/divine.htm http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-7/images/devine_einstein.mp3 Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
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