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this new blog (that Peter Woit flagged) is potentially very interesting and
has an uninhibited style
http://angryphysicist.wordpress.com/about/
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Rantings of an Angry Physicist
An angry Physicist ranting about Quantum Gravity, foundational Quantum Mechanics, the gross incompotency of Economists, and other fun issues!
About
I’m a undergrad at UC Davis, I have been studying physics for two or three years. I started studying from the library at CalTech with a retired rocket scientist and have been fascinated by theoretical physics since. I have a few more years to go until they kick me out with a degree or two; next year I am going to be taking 13 to 15 math courses, so I don’t know how much I can keep up with this blog then. But for now, I read everything I get my hands on and try to read up on every technical paper I can (truth be told: Dr. Carlip is very intimidating with his demigod-like powers to mystically cite sources like one would recite one’s phone number! So that is something to aspire to!) and as a bad habit from my earlier years I tend to think critically (I’m a baaaad man!).
Consequently I reject String theory as it stands now (yes, I am a heathen heretic whatever). Hmmm…I think that if we had strings that are one Planck length long, all we could really know about these strings are their relative position perhaps desribable by a graph? The various graph-states would be superpositioned and we easily recover quantum mechanics via a sum over histories method, etc. But that’s not what bothers me about string theory the most. What bothers me the most is that they propose the existence of the graviton, which I see as cartoonish. I’m certain that String theorists will have a host of insults to hurl at me about this, but it doesn’t change the fact that it makes no sense to have a graviton. Saying “Well quantum field theory demands the existence of a mediating boson” is no better than saying “Well, the bible demands that evolution be false”; it’s a simple appeal to authority.
Anyways, I thought about being an economist a while back (since fifth grade!). I must confess that I have a soft spot in my heart for economics…well, criticisms of Neoclassical and marginalist economics now. I’m an “old school” Neo-Ricardian type of fellow. I might actually post some stuff criticizing Neoclassical economics later on, keep your eyes peeled for it!
Back to my history, uh well, that’s it I guess for now.
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has an uninhibited style
http://angryphysicist.wordpress.com/about/
==quote==
Rantings of an Angry Physicist
An angry Physicist ranting about Quantum Gravity, foundational Quantum Mechanics, the gross incompotency of Economists, and other fun issues!
About
I’m a undergrad at UC Davis, I have been studying physics for two or three years. I started studying from the library at CalTech with a retired rocket scientist and have been fascinated by theoretical physics since. I have a few more years to go until they kick me out with a degree or two; next year I am going to be taking 13 to 15 math courses, so I don’t know how much I can keep up with this blog then. But for now, I read everything I get my hands on and try to read up on every technical paper I can (truth be told: Dr. Carlip is very intimidating with his demigod-like powers to mystically cite sources like one would recite one’s phone number! So that is something to aspire to!) and as a bad habit from my earlier years I tend to think critically (I’m a baaaad man!).
Consequently I reject String theory as it stands now (yes, I am a heathen heretic whatever). Hmmm…I think that if we had strings that are one Planck length long, all we could really know about these strings are their relative position perhaps desribable by a graph? The various graph-states would be superpositioned and we easily recover quantum mechanics via a sum over histories method, etc. But that’s not what bothers me about string theory the most. What bothers me the most is that they propose the existence of the graviton, which I see as cartoonish. I’m certain that String theorists will have a host of insults to hurl at me about this, but it doesn’t change the fact that it makes no sense to have a graviton. Saying “Well quantum field theory demands the existence of a mediating boson” is no better than saying “Well, the bible demands that evolution be false”; it’s a simple appeal to authority.
Anyways, I thought about being an economist a while back (since fifth grade!). I must confess that I have a soft spot in my heart for economics…well, criticisms of Neoclassical and marginalist economics now. I’m an “old school” Neo-Ricardian type of fellow. I might actually post some stuff criticizing Neoclassical economics later on, keep your eyes peeled for it!
Back to my history, uh well, that’s it I guess for now.
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