its practitioners are tangled up in debates not unlike those of rabbinical scholars. ***In other words, it is the religion of scientism.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Danny Ross Lunsford < > antimatte...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > the people who ignored it or actively blocked it and suppressed its >> researchers are exposed for the charlatans they are. Their record will be >> empty string theory, vapid cosmology, multidimensional hallucinations, >> science fiction universes, and ignorant attacks on a new branch of science. > > > I'm beginning to think what seems to have been a theoretical turn in the > past few decades is partly what is responsible for the negative reception > of the LENR research. Perhaps many physicists have lost their intuitive > sense of what goes on in the physical world. There are whole subfields of > physics that barely rely upon empirical evidence. Hypothetically speaking > you might be able to connect string theory back to something that can be > observed in the world, but even if this is true, it's so abstract that > we've failed to do so yet. Presumably there are famous physicists who have > devoted their careers to a subfield that has yet to give rise to observable > predictions. One almost gets the sense that normal branches of physics (as > opposed to theoretical physics) are second-class ones where scientists get > their hands too dirty. Much of physics gives the sense of essentially > being mathematics with additional fudge factor constants that you must > include in your equations from time to time. My impression of the field is > that it has become a little rarified, and its practitioners are tangled up > in debates not unlike those of rabbinical scholars. > > Eric > >
