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(Only because I used to argue the exact same thing with my dad when I was a teen, and we had both read his books, and I have a human bias that when I read something that agrees with me, I smile, feel vindicated, and don't think about it further.)
Heh heh, I like the dig at Penrose at the end. (Only because I used to argue the exact same thing with my dad when I was a teen, and we had both read his books, and I have a human bias that when I read something that agrees with me, I smile, feel vindicated, and don't think about it further.)
For the first time viewers: don't miss to hover over the cartoon (or on the iOS, long press on the image): "Somewhere in the multiverse, there's a superior universe where all comics are this dorktastic." And the big red button at the end: "Out-nerd me now, Randall!" ---- And more to read: Scott Aaronson's "Making of The Talk": http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3058
I'd like to see more complex topics explained this way. Imagine an organic chemistry comic novel! I think people make a lot of topics seem way more complicated than they need to be, probably to make themselves feel important.
In that case, I recommend "The Manga Guide to ..." series. [1] I haven't read all of them, but they're a good attempt. (If you enjoy or can tolerate the quirkiness of japanese manga style.) Check out The Manga Guide to Databases https://smile.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Databases-Mana-Takahash... or The Manga Guide to Statistics https://smile.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Statistics-Shin-Takahas... or The Manga Guide to Linear A…
For the first time viewers: don't miss to hover over the cartoon (or on the iOS, long press on the image): "Somewhere in the multiverse, there's a superior universe where all comics are this dorktastic." And the big red button at the end: "Out-nerd me now, Randall!" ---- And more to read: Scott Aaronson's "Making of The Talk": http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3058
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper...
We never recreated the experiment again until Ernest Wilbur Silvertooth did about one-hundred years later in the 1980s. He found a possible connection to the Ether, but by this point every scientist in the world committed to thinking the opposite; they didn't care for his findings.
People say GR works, but they keep running into weird situations where they have to keep fudging their mathematical models -- none of the equations work together, i.e. no unified field theory, -- and everyone is too afraid to suggest we've been approaching it all wrong.
God, I love how political science has become: funding, faith, pride... The world didn't care for Galileo's theories, either: it turned their whole world upside-down.
Zach, I think you may have finally surpassed Randall.
I'm starting to become skeptical of our understanding of quantum mechanics because we completely discredited a common theory with only one experiment over a hundred years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper... We never recreated the experiment again until Ernest Wilbur Silvertooth did about one-hundred years later in the 1980s. He found a possible connection to the Ether, but by this poi…