Comments on: The Meaning is in the Model: Even on Vacation

By: Byron@TRIUMF

Byron@TRIUMF — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:23:57 +0000

Both quantum gravity and SUSY have an observational motivation. We observe gravity and quantum effects. The question is how do you combine them. Similarly SUSY was proposed to solve a problem suggested by observation. That said neither models of quantum gravity nor SUSY should be accepted until there is direct experimental confirmation of some predictions.

By: Byron@TRIUMF

Byron@TRIUMF — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:53:03 +0000

The unconscious mind, in the current context, is just the brain’s sensory processing systems. The conscious mind is what we know to exist a la Descartes. What exactly it is does not matter for the arguments presented.

By: gunn

gunn — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:51:41 +0000

Do you notice that in physics any your models (neither Higgs, nor superstrings, nor…) any more don’t work? Logic time has come:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4507

By: Uncle Al

Uncle Al — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:04:30 +0000

“Thus science has a firm ground to stand on: observation.”

You just killed quantum gravitation and SUSY. OTOH, management obsesses on what is measurable instead of promoting what is important. Bottom line, the only trusted employee is one whose sole marketable asset is loyalty. First derivatives sell books, second derivatives sell guns. Know whether extrema are sulci or gyri… then stand back. All discovery is insubordination.

By: John Kerr

John Kerr — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:46:13 +0000

What is this “mind” of which you speak?