← doesnt have all the answers but does not preclude/ can note when others do not seem to be asking the right questions ... do have alternative approaches, have blogged at length about them, the "community" is not receptive right now, think it will chg gradually over "the long haul/ run" aka years
@CuriousOne research is not merely/ cannot nec be reduced just to competing agendas although it sometimes plays out that way historically
@vzn: I have not seen any "alternative approaches" that I would take seriously. There is a difference between being imaginative and being knowledgable with an idea that works.
@CuriousOne your dodging the "citation needed" is noted and you dont seem to be bothered by the omission. actually was expressing some sympathy for your frustration about the possible approaching/ oncoming desert of new LHC findings esp wrt history.
@CuriousOne sounds like black or white thinking to me. ps DS was criticizing your comment style in here awhile back, dont know if you saw that
@vzn: I am not that frustrated about the desert. I have expected it since, at least, 1994 or so. The Higgs and nothing else was my only expectation for LHC.
@vzn: Anybody with a serious suggestion is highly welcome, I am just not seeing it.
@vzn: That I am not into into intellectual nonsense is based on experience: it doesn't seem to work.
To put it another way... the average string theorist is a third rate mathematician who would never get tenure in a quality math department. Witten and some others are excluded from this opinion, of course, but Witten would have done better with his career/life if he had spent it on something with substance/data.
@Slereah: With more freedom comes more responsibility. Anybody who thinks that the average programmer writes better software in oppressive languages like C/C++ doesn't know the extent of the human ingenuity to mess up.
"Some constructs could be defined but are so ugly that they should not be. A classic variant that makes my eyes bleed and that should not be defined is: i = ++i + p[++i];"
@Slereah Let $M^n$ be compact and let $g(t), t\in[0,\tau]$ be a solution to the Ricci flow satisfying $\sup_M |R_{g(t)}|\le \tau^{-1}$ for all $ t\in[0,\tau]$. Given any integer $m\ge 1$, there is a positive constant $C$ such that $\sup_M|D^mR_{g(t)}|^2\le C\tau^{-2}t^{-m}$ for all $t\in(0,\tau]$.
you're supposed to pull everything back to a fucking bundle, then use an induced connection on that bundle, then push everything back and let the $\le $ absorb all of the terms
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@PhysicsGuy well if you know anything about Shi estimates now's the time to tell me
@DanielSank: What makes me mad, though, is that theorists who have the formulary under total control seem to have trouble linking it to observable phenomenology.
@DanielSank: What has happened since the 1970s is that generation after generation of theorist have written books about the theoretical descriptions that, unfortunately, over-interpret the theory. There is no need for that and it becomes ever harder to pull the layman back from these ideas to where physics really is as a science.
@DanielSank: I do get the frustration of the theoretical folks, I really do. Nature has really given us this puzzle where only the most ambiguous pieces are on the table... :-(
@CuriousOne Unless you give me examples I'm going to have to regard this as yet another "everything is always getting worse" proclamation. I find those tiresome.
Please note that having more bad books doesn't mean the community is degrading. If we have 100x more books now then we did before, then we also have 100x more bad books.
@DanielSank: It starts with "The First Three Minutes" containing Weinberg's religious preferences for a cyclical universe and now we have Krauss preaching the zero energy universe. :-)
Only the good stuff gets attention fifty years after original publication, so there's a strong sampling bias and we all think "the good ol' days" enjoyed better pop culture.
@CuriousOne I've never heard of either of those. Is it possible you are attracted to things you don't like because you enjoy being offended and then complaining?
