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by michaelmrose
806 days ago
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Aggressive dismissal of an entire field with minimal attempt made to understand it is never going to play well and following it up with sarcasm doesn't improve the situation. Attempting to work backwards to the beginning of the universe from a single tiny point in time and space is fairly obviously going to be a lot harder than understanding the physics of events we can repeat, measure, and examine. This doesn't make them quackery and it does explain why many things remain poorly explained. A century from now its likely that many understandings will be retained and some will have been consigned to the bin. People do challenge existing theories. Most frequently unsuccessfully. Because most novel hypothesis turn out to be wrong. Riffing off the science fiction reference this isn't a process we can skip any more than authors can skip brainstorming, first drafts, rewrites and just skip to typing out the final draft. In brief stop coming off like Agent Mulder. Everyone knows the truth is out there. If it takes a while to coalesce its not because the educated folks working on the problem too stupid to listen to basic physics. It's because the physics that explains the rest of the picture isn't written yet. |
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They’re just as much avoiding real work of keeping themselves alive as an aristocrat to noodle around something that will only ever be incomplete due to our axiomatic systems being leaky abstraction.
I’m a “Perelmanite.” The ethical and communication standards of academia serve its social influence goals, not science.
We get the gist of natures mechanics and know how to measure generally. Further specialization of the syntax rarely moves the needle, which still points at Einstein, Gödel, and other century old works, rarely the contemporary librarians of scientific texts except to say “yeah this customization still preserves the whole of relativity” or some other core body of work we infer modern research form.
Perelman figured out Riemanns at home, alone. Bailed on university as he found it mired in politics and manipulation of social agency to preserve itself.
See that recent article about institutions becoming road blocks to the progress they were created to resolve. There’s been article after article here about science depts veering into pseudo-science. When a workers salary depends on them ignoring truth… “meat suit needs to eat” wins above honesty and integrity.