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| Robert L. Oldershaw... |
 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:59 pm |
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On Oct 27, 1:40 pm, Roger Bagula <roger.bag... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
[quote]Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, etc. etc. + strings of incoherent numbers.
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Firstly, I am not a professor!
Secondly, I am not an astronomer!
I am a student of nature.
(A) The Hierarchy Problem has many forms but the versions I am most
familiar with all trace back to the fact that the conventional Planck
mass [~ 10^-5 g] corresponds to nothing observed in nature and is
astronomically different from the masses of ALL well-observed
subatomic particles.
(B) The vacuum energy density crisis [HEP gives a value that is
10^120
times higher than is observed in cosmology] is very well known and
can
also be traced back to the dopey conventional Planck Mass.
See: http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3381 for a resolution of the VED
crisis
AND the Hierarchy Problem.
(C) Maybe G is NOT scale invariant. This has been assumed since the
Pleistocene, but without any observational evidence to back it up.
Maybe each cosmological Scale has its own value of G, as would be
required in a discrete self-similar cosmos. Are you familiar with
fractals?
(D) John Baez is a world-class crackpot of the educated variety.
Last
week he was babbling on about "spin foams" which probably are more
like theoretical bathtub scum. At sci.physics.research and at
sci.math.research I asked him if he could back up his glass bead game
speculations with ANY observational support. So far he has not
succeeded in coming up with anything to report on the subject of the
real world.
(E) Is it true that string theorists wear slippers with bells on the
toes?
Yours in the new paradigm [presented using only elementary school
math
at www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw ],
RLO |
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| Robert L. Oldershaw... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:47 pm |
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On Oct 27, 7:59 pm, "Robert L. Oldershaw" <rlolders... at (no spam) amherst.edu>
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But seriously, is it true that string theorists wear slippers with
bells on the toes?
Anon
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Dear Anon,
I am so glad you asked.
Yes, they do, and they also have bells on their floppy pointed hats.
However, only the Master Jesters are allowed to juggle the Glass
Beads.
The sycophants have to sit around them in a circle and clap.
Otherwise they are branded "crackpots" and ostracized.
Good observing Anon,
RLO |
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| Robert L. Oldershaw... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:53 pm |
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On Nov 2, 6:47 pm, "Robert L. Oldershaw" <rlolders... at (no spam) amherst.edu>
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Some people might ask:
"What IS this guy's problem?"
Well, let me explain.
I have watched theoretical physics descend
into untestable pseudoscience over the last
few decades, and it is very disturbing to anyone
who loves testable natural philosophy and
experimental science.
First it was the hordes of unobservable particles,
then the untestable and childishly idealistic
cosmological assumptions, then the whole
string theory excursion into la-la land, then
the deplorable "anthropic reasoning", then
the 10^500 random "multiverses", then the
"Boltzmann Brains" [egad!].
When I learned about the Nielsen/Ninomiya
papers it was like a "call to arms". The fact
that one cannot be entirely sure if the authors
intended to be taken seriously, or if the whole
fiasco is an elaborate hoax, just makes the
insult to science that much worse.
I would roughly estimate that 50% of current
theoretical physics, including the most
"fashionable" brands, are untestable pseudoscience
at best, and Platonic twittery if we are being candid.
People like Einstein and Schroedinger have been
replaced by execrable "natural pilosophers" who
may be very adept at abstract and hermetic
analytical methods, but who seem to have little
or no intercourse with the real world of nature.
The sycophants follow like sheep because they
feel it is not their role to question the Glass Bead
Game.
Well, I could go on at great length, but now you
know what the "problem" is. The question is:
What is to be done about it?
Hoping for a new paradigm,
and a definitively testable
paradigm, at that,
RLO
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| Robert L. Oldershaw... |
| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:45 am |
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