Physics is too important to be left to the physicists...

[Cristian]

For a long time now, physics is my only "educated" hobby.

Since highschool everything else seemed boring . I didn't even bother to show up much of the time for other classes. Or I was half asleep.

But physics ... I used to learn in 2-3 weeks everything we were supposed to study the whole year. And I used to raise my hand and ask the teacher trolling questions. You know, the kind of questions the teachers are always afraid of. For some reason they dont like to say the words "I dont know" in front of the class.

But Susskind is not afraid to say I dont know, and neither were Einstein or Newton.

Funny thing...you have to study alot to understand you know nothing.




“There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.”
― Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Sir Isaac Newton

[indigopete]

Hi Chris

Just curious, are you a Physicist by profession ? (I assume not if it's a "hobby").

Pete

[DeDukshyn]

I totally agree Chris. I think Einstein was one of the few physicists that sought that balance, and then almost ostracized from the scientific community for it. At least he had integrity.

Quantum physics is not really even a Science by definition, yet it is, and you can do repeatable experiments, on things like say the effect of observation.

What I have found is that the indications that quantum physics makes about our entire reality are too radical for most to grasp, let alone for physicists to make known their thoughts because it would be "unscientific"

It is time for "science" to be changed, in my opinion, away from systems and processes of discovery that only reward the skeptical, and protect the old paradigm. Quantum physics is the mortar between the brick of Science and the brick of Spirituality -- the three need to be seen for that, as the are all cemented to each other.

When science fully respects the subtle realm into its participation, I believe we will see a whole new way of looking at science and technology. I think REAL science will then begin.

Embracing the imagination and wonder of physics is a key ;) My 2 cents ;)