The laughed at Bozo the Clown too.
Brent Meeker
jamikes.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> To Stathis, Brent, and List:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brent Meeker" <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden> (not really!)
> To: <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 3:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Can we ever know truth?
>
>
>
>>Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
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>>>John M writes:
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>>>>When did you last learn that the tenets of ongoing
>>>>physics are only "provisionally" accepted as 'real'?
>>>>(I just wanted to tease members of this list.
>>>>Of course on THIS list 'thinking' people gathered and
>>>>such thoughts are not unusual. We are the exception.)
>>>>
>>>>An example is the Big Bang. Many scientists almost put
>>>>it into their evening prayer. Doubting is heresy.
>>>>This is why I scrutinize what we 'believe in' and try
>>>>alternate narratives: do they hold water? Are the new
>>>>(alternate) ideas palatable to what (we think) we
>>>>experience?
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm sure all the Big Bang theorists would say that they would
>>>change their views if new evidence came to light. Of course,
>>>there are thousands of ideas out there and most of them are
>>>pretty crazy, pushed by people who don't understand even
>>>the basics of what they are criticizing, so it is understandable
>>>that these ideas would sometimes be dismissed out of hand by
>>>people working in the field. It is also understandable that
>>>scientists are only human and get quite attached to the theories
>>>on which they base their careers, so they may not change as
>>>quickly as they ought to in the light of new evidence.
>>>
>>>Stathis Papaioannou
>>
>>In fact there are serious theories of the universe in which there is no
>>originating big bang. For example Paul Steinhardt has published papers on
>
> a
>
>>model in which the universe we see is one of two 3-branes in a
>>10-dimensional space.
>>
>>http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0403020
>>
>>The origin of particles and energy and their flying apart as we see them
>
> is
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>>due to collision of our 3-brane with the other 3-brane. He shows that
>
> this
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>>can be a cyclic process in which the universe empties out due to expansion
>>and then another collision can occur. While a few individual scientists
>
> may
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>>consider the big bang origin of the universe dogma, every scientist
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> working
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>>in a field like cosmogony wants to make his name by showing that current
>>theories are wrong.
>>
>>Brent Meeker
>>
>
> Of course the "Big Bang" caught the attention. What I asked about
> considering our 'visualization' of "a" reality-percept as provisional - to
> work with, until a better one shows up :
>
>>>>When did you last learn that the tenets of ongoing
>>>>physics are only "provisionally" accepted as 'real'?
>
> and mentioned the BB as a (side?) example.
> BTW - speaking about 'the' Big Bang: Hubble (1922) detected a redshift in
> the spectra of distant (and greater in even more distant) heavenly bodies
> and was ingenious enough to connotate this with the Doppler effect,
> concluding, that this shift into lower frequencies of distant bodies MAY
> HAVE BEEN the result of a receding movement of the light-source, similar
> to the 'lowering voice' in a Doppler - type auditive phenomenon.
> Consequently: the universe MAY expand, producing those (alleged) receding
> movements from us.
> This is the 'provisionally(!)' accepted reality-percept as of the early
> 1920s:
> The idea was logical. - "IF" - this is a fact, we may apply a retrograde
> line
> backwards and arrive to the zero-point, when the universe was started -
> gradually
> collapsing into an extensionless point - from which it erose "in a big
> bang".
>
> Then came the first (and biggest) mistake: "scientists" took our present
> physical science circumstances and applied them (equationally) to all those
> changing systems of concentration with incomparably higher density of
> everything (energy? temperature? gravity? if someone ha an idea what these
> are). They assigned the fractions of the hypothetical 1st sec (^-40 etc.) to
> storytelling of features just "freezing out". It still did not make sense
> with our equations derived in the present 'cool' and dilated physical
> system, so an inflation was invented to correct 'some' of the compressed
> state which made the equations fully paradoxical.
> IF the Hubble proposal is right (and I give credit to assume it) the
> calculations and their conclusions must be false - e.g. the age of the
> universe. A linear retro-math
> for a chaotic development cannot match, unknown intermittent events are all
> neglected, the relationships of THIS system are applied for a totally
> different one.
> No experimental proof, not even asymptotically: those many orders of magn.
> make speculation into science fiction. (This is why I composed my
> narrative).
>
> After that - sorry, Brent - not those, who wanted to deny the theory, rather
> those, who wanted to show 'experimental' simulations assignable to the
> 'truth'
> of the theory - designed and performed thousands and thousands of
> experiments all slanted towards 'evidencing' the idea (E.g. Wilson's
> background radiation,
> presented as the 'remnant' of the Big Bang energy-level - earning him a
> Nobel).
> So the 'proving' became the way to grants, tenure, acceptance into the
> science
> establishment. Finding evidence against it? In who's acceptance? Disproving
> it?
> Dare swim against the flood? Become a scientific leper?
> The shift in light-frequency can be altered in several other ways, but
> attempts to
> even mentioning such (e.g. compartmentalized universe, gravitational fields
> changes) were rejected before any serious consideration as 'hoax' (sic).
> (I have a personal experience to that by a prestigious New England
> professor).
> Expanding Universe with Big Bang Startup is the bible in conventional
> science.
> "Not one experiment to counter-evidence it!" also: "Not one penny to spend".
> ...And of course there is Fred Hoyle's harmonic theory with no beginning,
> etc.
> So the (provisional?) reality-percept stays and generation after generation
> it
> gains more and more 'belief' as a real-reality-view.
> *
> This is a recent example, with a knowledge-base close to our present level
> of the cognitive inventory in our epistemological enrichment. I did not go
> further back into eras with much less information about the world and much
> more speculation
> "how it COULD be", like e.g. 2500 years ago and way before that.
> That old ape must have been a genius to start thinking!
>
> John Mikes
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