hehe, I don't actually own a Tesla. I don't drive at all (have my bike) and my wife drives an older prius. We are looking at some of the new all-electrics for our next car though.
My friend who moved down to the farm has a fully loaded model Y.
Oh, BTW Riemann, I just started reading Road to Reality
Roger Penrose is a little bit long winded but I think that's okay, these concepts are complicated and they bear a little over explaining
It's very good so far. I'm only about 100 pages into it
Of all the various old physicists with a crazy pet theory Penrose is the one I like the most (with his Conformal Cyclic Cosmology). In large part cause, unlike all the string theory and multiverse people, he is quite honest about the status of his work and what it would need to actually get some connection to experiment. Probably cause he doesn't have to grub for funding like the people constantly sending bullshit press releases.
edit: also his older work on using Twistors as a way to formulate quantum field theory is still being mulled over by various people (like Woit) and hasn't been ruled out as a possible avenue of progress
Oh, BTW Riemann, I just started reading Road to Reality
Roger Penrose is a little bit long winded but I think that's okay, these concepts are complicated and they bear a little over explaining
It's very good so far. I'm only about 100 pages into it
Of all the various old physicists with a crazy pet theory Penrose is the one I like the most (with his Conformal Cyclic Cosmology). In large part cause, unlike all the string theory and multiverse people, he is quite honest about the status of his work and what it would need to actually get some connection to experiment. Probably cause he doesn't have to grub for funding like the people constantly sending bullshit press releases.
There's nothing wrong IMO with going out on a limb with a speculative hypothesis as long as you're upfront that's what you're doing.
Michio Kaku (for example) is a smart guy but the way he transitions seamlessly and with no disclosure from established theory to blue-sky speculation is why he has such a bad reputation
Feral on
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Mostly, I've recent been feeling like I want to beef up my math. I've been missing math classes.
My last formal education in math (not counting statistics or research methodology) was tensor calculus - surface area of a 3D curve is the last thing I remember. No linear algebra, no differential equations.
I'm feeling a desire to evolve.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
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hehe, I don't actually own a Tesla. I don't drive at all (have my bike) and my wife drives an older prius. We are looking at some of the new all-electrics for our next car though.
My friend who moved down to the farm has a fully loaded model Y.
Roger Penrose is a little bit long winded but I think that's okay, these concepts are complicated and they bear a little over explaining
It's very good so far. I'm only about 100 pages into it
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Of all the various old physicists with a crazy pet theory Penrose is the one I like the most (with his Conformal Cyclic Cosmology). In large part cause, unlike all the string theory and multiverse people, he is quite honest about the status of his work and what it would need to actually get some connection to experiment. Probably cause he doesn't have to grub for funding like the people constantly sending bullshit press releases.
edit: also his older work on using Twistors as a way to formulate quantum field theory is still being mulled over by various people (like Woit) and hasn't been ruled out as a possible avenue of progress
There's nothing wrong IMO with going out on a limb with a speculative hypothesis as long as you're upfront that's what you're doing.
Michio Kaku (for example) is a smart guy but the way he transitions seamlessly and with no disclosure from established theory to blue-sky speculation is why he has such a bad reputation
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Gas guzzlers this week
My last formal education in math (not counting statistics or research methodology) was tensor calculus - surface area of a 3D curve is the last thing I remember. No linear algebra, no differential equations.
I'm feeling a desire to evolve.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
On average, this thread was blasting along at warp 1.6
@RiemannLives will create the new thread
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