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We have our newspaper scalawags. You have yours. (Revkin).Josh Cryer wrote:Fair enough analysis, certainly a far cry from the knee-jerk positions I am regularly seeing from that side.
Yes, but when Revkin is agreeing with Motl you know something is freaking up: http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/01/globa ... ay-on.htmlMSimon wrote:We have our newspaper scalawags. You have yours. (Revkin).Josh Cryer wrote:Fair enough analysis, certainly a far cry from the knee-jerk positions I am regularly seeing from that side.
He's hateful, and defends String Theory even though it is not falsifiable.MSimon wrote:And Lubos has the honesty and courage to state his views openly and even publish counterfactuals. Giving more credence to his honesty.
Yep, I was going to quote that same part for anyone who didn't click the link.Tom Ligon wrote:Now there's a guy I can take seriously.
"economic development that creates the cleanest environments we have. You don't find clean rivers or clean air in the poorest countries."
Absolutely. See Haiti. Simon knows what I'm talking about. Hopefully I'll have an editorial shortened down to digestible form and posted at SIGMA's website soon.
Yes it is hateful. But the guy had bad experiences with socialism/communism when his country was in the Eastern block. And he sees climate hysteria as a socialist plot to control energy supples (i.e. modern life). If CO2 was really a problem planting trees and logging them is the cheapest way to reduce atmospheric CO2. Not shutting down the current energy system.Josh Cryer wrote:He's hateful, and defends String Theory even though it is not falsifiable.MSimon wrote:And Lubos has the honesty and courage to state his views openly and even publish counterfactuals. Giving more credence to his honesty.
Going on to a guys YouTube page and saying he should die for telling the *truth* is despicable. This is precisely why the hardliners used his graph, as a sort of "ha-ha."
Yep.BTW string theory is falsifiable. Just not at energy levels we are currently capable of.
So we may know something fairly soon.Many physicists strongly oppose the idea that string theory is not falsifiable, among them Sylvester James Gates: "So, the next time someone tells you that string theory is not testable, remind them of the AdS/CFT connection ..."[41] AdS/CFT relates string theory to gauge theory, and allows contact with low energy experiments in quantum chromodynamics. This type of string theory, which only describes the strong interactions, is much less controversial today than string theories of everything (although two decades ago, it was the other way around).
In addition, Gates points out that the grand unification natural in string theories of everything requires that the coupling constants of the four forces meet at one point under renormalization group rescaling. This is also a falsifiable statement, but it is not restricted to string theory, but is shared by grand unified theories.[42] The LHC will be used both for testing AdS/CFT, and to check if the electroweakstrong unification does happen as predicted.[43]
He hates socialism. Not unreasonable if you grew up in the Eastern block with secret police.Josh Cryer wrote:I should have said that even if LHC falsifies some subsets of String Theory, the whole cannot be falsified without technology far beyond what we have. So if the LHC falsifies those subsets, people will still believe String Theory is a good representation of reality.
And then there are parts of String Theory which can never be falsified under any technological circumstances.
Motl is still a very hateful person and it makes me lose all respect for him.
There are a number of Left Field options or indicators beyond String Theology as GUT candidates. Heim (if accurate) is just a very mature version of LQG that got a 40 year head start. Woodward. HFGWs. And I'm right now looking at a left field 5D approach that is nearly as intuitively attractive as Heim and has Woodward's (Mach-Lorentz Thruster) endorsement.TallDave wrote:It's a very pretty theory with some startling correlations. I like LQG a bit better, but I'm holding out a small hope for Heim.