tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post9183644051658239541..comments2024-03-18T10:15:25.269-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: Post-WWII philosophers have lost itRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-61421305504676245102015-01-24T15:12:13.622-08:002015-01-24T15:12:13.622-08:00Roger,
You can meander on as long as you like abou...Roger,<br />You can meander on as long as you like about how you hate philosophy, but every math that has ever existed in human knowledge is based in part upon the philosophical premise of abstraction. Math is all based on axioms and logic at its very foundations, and relies on quite a few 'givens'.<br /><br />If you want to quote Lubos Motl, the man who was fired from Harvard for his uncontrollable big mouth, and who fervently believes in 'strings' that are by his own definitions indivisible and one dimensional, yet are allowed to cavort around as three dimensional objects and even get tangled up with one another, good grief! You should take to task the basic inability of modern day physicists to even understand what a 'one dimensional' object is, it certainly by blatant observation isn't reality, and it can't interact with anything actual. If you wish to bad mouth certain branches of philosophy, be specific, but quit throwing out the baby with the bath water that happens to contain the foundations of your own abstraction. All calculation (by definition) is based upon the philosophical premise you can model reality with something other than itself. This first step requires one to acknowledge that whatever your model might do, it isn't the actual thing itself, it is a representation, it is not dependent on reality at all, it is dependent on whatever rules or properties you ascribe to it. As such, you will always have some separation or gap between the model and what it represents in reality. Always. This gap is presently so large, you can drive time travel, alternate dimensions of existence, anthropic principals, massless and massive point particles, unfalsifiable fantasies of one dimensional strings, magical quantum computers, and other such drivel through it with room to spare for the cotton-picking Titanic. For people claiming to be brilliant, present day physicists are pretty damn close to incapable of agreeing what their own mathematical constructs even mean ( there is no real consensus on quantum mechanics interpretations, much less the actuality which underlies it). So if you can't get a group of professed experts to even coherently agree upon the functioning of their own theories they claim to have mastered, why take pot shots a philosophers who are calling them out on it? You have no actual physics anymore, you have contradicting 'interpretations' which quite frankly sound far more philosophical than scientific. <br /><br /> Pretty much the entire field of HEP has become more mathematical metaphysics than science, and it isn't exactly a mystery why funding is drying up to support such nonsense. <br /><br />P.S. You want to believe in the 'established' physics which supports the belief of point particles, yet post pictures of bubble tracks below (Bubble chamber tracks). Please explain mechanically how non spinning particles create spirals after they collide. CFTnoreply@blogger.com