I can't wait! It should be mind blowing. Here's the show's web site:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

ROGER HANE

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Roger Hane wrote:

I can't wait! It should be mind blowing. Here's the show's web site:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

If you have been following recent threads in sci.physics.research you
know how interesting the program could be. String theory is in
crisis. It has infinite solutions both physical and (mostly)
non-physical. It has no unique empirically testable predictions.
Anything this complex and useless is usually called "economics."

Galileo traded his personal freedom to insist on experimentation
overruling theory. We have expertly gotten away from that, and are
paying the exhorbitant price of erecting huge empty cathedrals to the
great god of least publishable unit theory (probably Sterculius).

http://www.beavis-butthead.ru/yellow_articles_107.html
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dicti...sterculiaceous
Remarkably, chocolate is in there!
http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/MEM...inrhythms.html

--
Uncle Al
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(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
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Uncle Al wrote:

Galileo traded his personal freedom to insist on experimentation
overruling theory. We have expertly gotten away from that, and are
paying the exhorbitant price of erecting huge empty cathedrals to the
great god of least publishable unit theory (probably Sterculius).

Physics may be going through a decadent phase. An inevitable consequence
of government funding of science projects. It is one thing to build a
bomb to kill one's enemies, it is another thing to eract a monument to
baroque vacuity. I hope this unpleasant phase is temporary. You should
read Sheldon Glaschow's take on this trend. He is not a happy physicist.

Bob Kolker

In article , Uncle Al says...

Roger Hane wrote:

I can't wait! It should be mind blowing. Here's the show's web site:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

If you have been following recent threads in sci.physics.research you
know how interesting the program could be. String theory is in
crisis. It has infinite solutions both physical and (mostly)
non-physical. It has no unique empirically testable predictions.
Anything this complex and useless is usually called "economics."

Hey, I like economics! I think it's fascinating stuff. No wonder I'll enjoy this
NOVA show.

ROGER HANE

NO E-MAIL SOLICITORS

Thanks Rodger for reminding me. Brian Greene is another Feynman. The
thing that is amazing about the string theory is it has no cosmological
evidence,or experiments to give it validity. Still I can visualize
vibrating loops,as sub particles. It gives motion to the sub-micro
realm,as angular motion is used in the micro realm Bert

Aps news reprinted Woody Allen's "Strung Out" Nov 2003.
http://www.aps.org/apsnews/
http://lists.bgu.ac.il/pipermail/phy...03/000037.html


Roger Hane wrote:

I can't wait! It should be mind blowing. Here's the show's web site:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

ROGER HANE

NO E-MAIL SOLICITORS

The morons use some of my stuff then ****ing do the nutzo plamo pimpmo
wasnt wrth watching im shure

"tj Frazir" wrote in message
...
The morons use some of my stuff then ****ing do the nutzo plamo
pimpmo
wasnt wrth watching im shure

If you didn't watch it, then how do you know they use some of your
stuff?

pitiful tj

Dave R. wrote in message

I viewed the program on "string theory." Quite interesting. It is hard
to belive the theory though because of the 6 extra dimensions required
for this theory to be true. And the major problem, how do we even know
strings exist? We don't posses the equipment to see them! I think
someone else might have to take a stab at the unifying theory. Sorry
Michael Green.
Dave R.

Dave R. wrote:
Dave R. wrote in message

I viewed the program on "string theory." Quite interesting. It is hard
to belive the theory though because of the 6 extra dimensions required
for this theory to be true. And the major problem, how do we even know
strings exist? We don't posses the equipment to see them! I think
someone else might have to take a stab at the unifying theory. Sorry
Michael Green.

How do you know atoms exist. Have you seen any. The Atomic Hypothesis
leads to quantitative predictions that are borne out by observation and
experiment. If strings did that (they don't) no one would worry about
whether strings exsited or not.

At this juncture, string theory is not testable so it remains a
mathematical artifact (and it, no doubt, has mathematical virtues) but
it is not physics.

Bob Kolker