Intuitionist Maths might help reconcile quantum physics and relativity

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Mr. Tea said:
This is absolutely classic "voice from the wilderness" Dunning-Kruger guff. I mean, literal Time Cube levels of delusion.
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If you had actually read Oliver Kahn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, you would know that you can't declare something wrong just because it looks weird or doesn't fit into your prevailing schema...that's the whole point of the book.
 
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mixed_biscuits said:
If you had actually read Oliver Kahn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, you would know that you can't declare something wrong just because it looks weird or doesn't fit into your prevailing schema...that's the whole point of the book.
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I can't be bothered to go into this any further, but how likely is it, do you think, that this one random guy with a shittily laid-out website is right, and the entire worldwide physics community is wrong? Seriously?

BTW, I have no idea who Oliver Kahn is, but Thomas Kuhn wrote 'Structure' (which you obviously didn't understand at all, since its main theme is absolutely not "sometimes one guy with no formal training makes a seemingly crazy statement, which on the surface contains errors that someone with even a basic grounding in the field wouldn't make, but then eventually every expert in world goes, oh yeah, turns out you were right and we were wrong").
 
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Mr. Tea said:
I can't be bothered to go into this any further, but how likely is it, do you think, that this one random guy with a shittily laid-out website is right, and the entire worldwide physics community is wrong? Seriously?

I have no idea who Oliver Kahn is, but Thomas Kuhn wrote 'Structure', btw.
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If the current array of theories are so correct, then how come a) there is more than one theory b) there are so many problems with only the anti-matter paradigm itself

Oliver Kahn is the former German national team goalkeeper, you philistine!
 
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mixed_biscuits said:
If the current array of theories are so correct, then how come a) there is more than one theory b) there are so many problems with only the anti-matter paradigm itself

Oliver Kahn is the former German national team goalkeeper, you philistine!
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What theories are you thinking of, here? And no, the garbage on that page you posted is not a "theory", any more than "what if ghosts were made of invisible, sentient cheese?" is a "theory."

And what "problems" do you think there are with the antimatter paradigm?
 
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Amusing that your arguments are restricted to:

a) wilful misunderstanding of simple sentences
b) criticism of website layout, as if an essay needs anything more than text-on-background
c) argumentum ad populum
 
Mr. Tea

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mixed_biscuits said:
Err...it might either have negative mass or not but we don't know for sure, hello?!
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That's not a "problem", it's just an unknown. A "problem" would be "our current theory predicts X phenomenon but we measure not-X."

The difficulties in measuring whether antimatter is affected by gravity in the normal way are formidable, for reasons I've already explained.
 
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That's not a "problem", it's just an unknown. A "problem" would be "our current theory predicts X phenomenon but we measure not-X."

The difficulties in measuring whether antimatter is affected by gravity in the normal way are formidable, for reasons I've already explained.
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It's a problem that we don't know - 'science' literally means the 'state of knowing'
 
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mixed_biscuits said:
It's a problem that we don't know - 'science' literally means the 'state of knowing'
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Science is a process by which things are found out. It's not just a storehouse of facts. The fact that there we don't yet have a complete theory of everything doesn't mean that every theory we have at present is wrong.

And as I've said, every sentence that guy has typed contains extremely basic errors, so whoever is going to be the next Einstein and come along with a revolutionary new theory that solves some of these unanswered questions, I'm fairly confident it isn't going to be him.
 
Leo

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I've got residue down the bottom of my coffee cup, needs a good scrubbing.
 
Clinamenic

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The residue measuring bit to me is an example of how the absence of evidence isn't necessarily the evidence of absence.
 
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To those of us who are curious, it may afford deeper insight, even within whatever narrow constraints our faculties of observation permit, into the nature of the universe, and by extension everything that unfolds within it, EG web3 political movements.
 
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