Ron with wonderful observations like that you will have me believing that you can run out the door when it is indeed shut
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Came back to Earth today and although not running out the door spent a great deal more time on string theory. Not as a specialist needless to say. At least in our discussion here we dont try to fool ourselves as much as those following the string theory idea...(another theory that has no right to be called such)... a theory as I understand it demands experimental proof yet after some 25 years or more the ideas upon which "string theory" er rather ""string ideas" are based have as far as I can tell provide no experiments proving one thing or the other
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It seems to me specialists can get a little too involved in their work and maybe should take a walk before they continue with such ideas
. Supersymmetry is only sums after all, and in my view needs a link to the real world with a conclusive experiment
. The additional dimentions sounds fanciful but again an experiment would remove the doubt and place sceptics like me in their place (the place they would like sceptics like me to go to that is
). And of course they seek to deal with gravity in such a way that makes my gravity rain seem more than plausible.. consider the two approaches and ask which product you could sell more of if you were the salesman
. I dont require the possibility of trillions of Universes each with double the dimentions proven to exist in our current Universe so in questioning the current line of thought I dont feel impertinant in fact I dont feel intimidated if this is the best that line of thought can offer
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Still I will be dead before I will be proved right or wrong I expect.
The problem is we have a great man Dr A who moved thinking forward who has achieved a status that all seek to fit any ideas into his beliefs..fair enough but maybe some things need review even if Dr A is shown not to be on the money all the time. I still think his greatest blunder will prove to be his greatest insite in so far as that relates very closely to where I am coming from.
Still I would rather the current quest for knowledge to continue rather than none at all or to follow the world view of a book written by many people near 2000 years ago on matters which still have no proof...and on the bright side.. often although a goal is not reached other worthy consequences result in the effort so who knows what may be a side product of the string idea for example, at least it is an attempt to move knowledge forward rather than rely on old old teachings difficult to interprete in a modern context.
Run thru the door more often I think the pressure of time has produced some terrific insites form you.
Do you think it will rain on the weekend?
alex