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| Date | 2015-08-04 06:57 -0700 |
| References | <8f7fdc5f-5e79-4428-9a60-3562f0dde8b9@googlegroups.com> |
| Message-ID | <642dff0f-7d77-4d63-9051-e4ea2a92c08b@googlegroups.com> (permalink) |
| Subject | Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? |
| From | Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> |
High priest/profiteer John Baez, once playing the role of Tomas de Torquemada in Einsteiniana, quitted working on quantum gravity in 2008 because he didn't want to live in Einstein's schizophrenic world anymore: https://edge.org/response-detail/11356 John Baez (2008): "One of the big problems in physics - perhaps the biggest! - is figuring out how our two current best theories fit together. On the one hand we have the Standard Model, which tries to explain all the forces except gravity, and takes quantum mechanics into account. On the other hand we have General Relativity, which tries to explain gravity, and does not take quantum mechanics into account. Both theories seem to be more or less on the right track - but until we somehow fit them together, or completely discard one or both, our picture of the world will be deeply schizophrenic. (...) I also realized that there were other questions to work on: questions where I could actually tell when I was on the right track, questions where researchers cooperate more and fight less. So, I eventually decided to quit working on quantum gravity." http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vJDaXX5tAwk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAVBk/ix6qQT75H7o/photo.jpg Pentcho Valev
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WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-03 14:21 -0700
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Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-08-03 15:36 -0700
Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-04 06:57 -0700
Re: WHERE ARE THE EINSTEINIANS? Bohuš Matuška <bohu@paranetnet.net> - 2015-08-04 15:44 +0000
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