[ExI] Discontent with the path physics is taking

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 22:57:41 UTC 2011


2011/8/17 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
> I am one who enjoys blowing my mind with physical theory, cosmology, the
> awesomeness of nature.  But even I see string theory as an exclusive
> playground of the top level physicists.  They left me behind soon after
> general relativity was discovered in the early 1900s.  I have tried to
> follow, but the equations just don’t translate well to words, any more than
> hip hop translates to the saxophone.

Come on spike, you may remember the early days of the space program,
but I seriously doubt you were current on physics' state of the art in
the early 1900's.  :)

"I showed Oppenheimer what'd happen when you fission atoms just so...
I guess that makes me grandfather of the bomb?"
- hyperbolic spike.




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