[ExI] Discontent with the path physics is taking

[G. Livick]

My the gods grant that main-stream sensibilities are never brought to 
bear on theoretical physics.

FutureMan


On 8/18/2011 5:55 AM, Stefano Vaj wrote:
> On 17 August 2011 21:56, Kelly Anderson<kellycoinguy at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I feel like
>> working too far ahead of the curve is counter productive, and it
>> certainly isn't helpful to business or the betterment of mankind.
> I suspect that, ultimately, few theoretical *and* technological
> breakthroughs originate from from short-term rentability or concerns
> for the betterment of mankind, rather than from cultural
> "incandescence", something of which I see scant traces in our age.
>
> In this respect, the increasingly evident impasse of contemporary
> physics may just be the reflection of a deeper civilisational problem.
> I do not care much that string theory may be untestable - nothing
> wrong in having as well a philosophy about phenomena, we always did -
> but in sociological terms it appears quite symptomatic of an era
> dominated by byzantinism, obsession for technical virtuosism, academic
> enforcement of orthodoxy, etc.
>