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mhernan
mhernaqn replies,confutatis said:I think the problem with people like Hawking is not that they have too much faith in mathematics, but simply that they have too much faith in themselves. That I find really annoying.
I think most of advanced physics is pure garbage. It's assumption upon assumption upon assumption... then they end up with ridiculous nonsense and look at each other in amazement: "we have discovered that the universe is nonsensical!"
One can only laugh at the comedy.
I think scientists are quite good at projecting an image of consensus, because they know they can lose those grants if they let people know what they are really doing.
Hawking made that very clear in one of this books. He clearly stated that physicists should not refer to research on time travel by its real name, and use something like "superluminal velocities" or some other fancy jargon I don't care to remember. His rationale? In his own words, people believe time travel is nonsense and would never give physicists money to do any research on it. So in order to get the money, physicists must lie to the public.
Those are the heroes of our time...
ditto
you are going to get in trouble talking like tha . We're supposed to argue, dotcha know?