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Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
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Subject Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests
Date 2018-08-16 05:14 +0000
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Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@capitalsgmail.com> wrote:
> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com Wrote in message:
>> sam.wormley@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests
>>>     https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/theoretical-physics-is-pointless-without-experimental-tests
>>> 
>>> No Nobel Prizes were ever awarded for an unverified theory.
>>> 
>>> Sam Wormley
>> 
>> Obama got a Peace Prize while the country was embroiled in war.
>> 
>> It is not unusual for a Nobel Prize choice to be assailed as pliticized,
>> parochial or just misguided.
>> 
> 
> It depends on which one.

While such is less prevelant in the hard sciences, it does happen.

Why was there all that internal Nobel hand-wringing over giving Einstein
the Nobel in 1921 for his explaination of the photoelectric effect and
why nothing for anything else he did?

http://discovermagazine.com/2006/sep/einstein-nobel-prize/

> The above is comparing apples with cars.

More like apples and pears.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests sam.wormley@gmail.com - 2018-08-15 14:58 -0700
  Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests Arindam Banerjee <banerjeeadda1234@gmail.com> - 2018-08-15 15:57 -0700
    Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-08-15 16:37 -0700
  Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2018-08-15 22:58 +0000
    Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-08-16 06:38 +0200
      Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2018-08-16 05:14 +0000
        Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-08-16 08:01 +0200
          Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2018-08-16 16:49 +0000
        Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-08-16 08:06 +0200
          Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2018-08-16 16:52 +0000
  Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-08-15 16:32 -0700
  Re:Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests Libor Striz <poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com> - 2018-08-16 06:36 +0200
  Re: Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests poraty149@gmail.com - 2018-08-16 08:43 -0700

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