tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post8692595299484166441..comments2024-03-01T00:14:52.680-08:00Comments on The Writer in Black: The end of physics?The Writer in Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00634971729839053990noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-12786448284208841142014-06-10T08:14:34.905-07:002014-06-10T08:14:34.905-07:00Yep. Somehow, just when you think you know it all,...Yep. Somehow, just when you think you know it all, the Universe jumps up and throws you a curve ball.<br />Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01790677413950555081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-2247396421799199942014-06-06T07:59:52.835-07:002014-06-06T07:59:52.835-07:00So long as 90–99% of the universe is made of p̶h̶l...So long as 90–99% of the universe is made of <a href="http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1068" rel="nofollow">p̶h̶l̶o̶g̶i̶s̶t̶o̶n̶</a> “dark matter/energy”, we’re nowhere near the “end of physics”.J. C. Salomonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16499605133549720090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-89132502785472492952014-06-06T07:04:54.619-07:002014-06-06T07:04:54.619-07:00That "the old ones have to die off" is n...That "the old ones have to die off" is not as true as some would make it out to be. Max Planck may have made this in a fit of frustration: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." but the actual speed with which "Modern Physics" spread (such that Einstein was the "new kid on the block" in the 1905 when he published his seminal papers but had sufficient "cred" in 1924 that his word alone got people to pay attention to deBroglie's hypothesis).<br /><br />Yes, the "old guard" will bring up every objection to the new ideas that they can think of. That's a feature, not a bug. Every theory goes through that and is the stronger for it. If it can't answer the objections, then maybe it's not so valid as proponents might like to think.The Writer in Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00634971729839053990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-51891553944093149722014-06-06T06:49:59.846-07:002014-06-06T06:49:59.846-07:00IMHO, we'll have to wait a while for a bunch o...IMHO, we'll have to wait a while for a bunch of white-haired eminences in the field to die off so that a new generation of physicists can take things farther. <br />Mortality - it is a feature, not a bug. Harry_the_Horriblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17491707450079925775noreply@blogger.com