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Post by marsatax on Jul 13, 2018 22:15:45 GMT
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Post by faustus5 on Jul 18, 2018 11:36:35 GMT
I've been planning on getting her book. I think she makes some very interesting points.
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Post by faustus5 on Sept 6, 2018 16:58:32 GMT
Almost done, and I can say that she has further hammered home the point, which I've been seeing made more and more lately, that modern physics and cosmology are deeply in trouble, sometimes resembling bad metaphysics more than real science. I mean, when you have respected scientists shrugging off the need to find experimental confirmation of their theories because their ideas are "just too good", things are really falling apart.
The problem, to me, seems to stem from the fact that we are reaching the limits of how deeply we can probe the nature of reality, which leaves scientists blindly speculating. I don't think the problem is one of human limitations, but technology and economics: if your model can only be tested by building particle accelerators that are just too big and too expensive to consider, speculation is all you are left with.
If we can somehow break free of the becalmed state the discipline is currently in, I think generations in the future will regard some of modern cosmology's models the way we now see Ptolemy's epicycles.
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