> FWIW, what he's saying in this clip isn't some weird > idea he dreamed up himself. The quantum foam concept > came from John Wheeler back in the 1950s. The notion > that the bubbles give birth to universes was proposed > by physicist Andrei Linde in the 1990s. It's one of > several competing approaches in the field of > theoretical physics. In that exotic context, it's > mainstream. > > It isn't Hagelin's physics that physicists have a > problem with; it's the connections he makes to > consciousness and the Vedic literature. >
There are interesting issues which JH could make some headway with except that he never has to think. All he ever does is talk in superficial terms to people who don't know much about the subject. If you look closely at what he's saying then all he's doing is endlessly shuffling a pack of cards with various new agey or TMO speak sayings on them. He never gets to the point of being able to calculate something or prove something. > On the other hand, there's a bunch of highly > credentialed (non-TM) physicists who are convinced > there are very strong connections to be made between > physics principles and consciousness. That's not > mainstream yet, but it's getting there. > Yes but they present arguments in a very meticulous way appropriate for high level physicists. In any case, space time foam is done away with in string theory, so if he's arguing the case for space-time-foam being connected to TC then he's also inadvertently arguing that string theory is wrong and therefore his "connections" between Vedic literature and string theory are an exact correlation between VL and a theory which is wrong. But because no one ever argues with him he never has to stop and think these things through.
