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What Are You Reading? Part Deux. (pg. 54)
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| Ted Promo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
How was the Leonard Susskind book? Isn't he just like pure conjecture. |
His Holographic Theory has the math to back it up. I mean, if you get down to it anything beyond Quantum Mechanics is all conjecture (meaning String Theory/M-Theory) it's just that there's math that backs it up. And the math that was created for these different theories solves intrinsic problems with models that came beforehand. Susskind's Holographic theory is gaining more footing though.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2...rse-resolution/
Also, Black Hole Wars is more about how Hawking was wrong (in that he stated that information once it enters a black hole is lost forever which runs contrary to the first law of Quantum Mechanics). It's about the struggle he faced in surmounting evidence to trump Hawking's assertions of the nature of information loss in black holes. He goes into asides about the emotional underpinnings he had attached to the rift between himself and Hawking.
yadayada and what and foodstuffs. It's good reading. |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ted Promo
His Holographic Theory has the math to back it up. I mean, if you get down to it anything beyond Quantum Mechanics is all conjecture (meaning String Theory/M-Theory) it's just that there's math that backs it up. And the math that was created for these different theories solves intrinsic problems with models that came beforehand. Susskind's Holographic theory is gaining more footing though.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2...rse-resolution/
Also, Black Hole Wars is more about how Hawking was wrong (in that he stated that information once it enters a black hole is lost forever which runs contrary to the first law of Quantum Mechanics). It's about the struggle he faced in surmounting evidence to trump Hawking's assertions of the nature of information loss in black holes. He goes into asides about the emotional underpinnings he had attached to the rift between himself and Hawking.
yadayada and what and foodstuffs. It's good reading. |
Added it to my list of things to get some day :p
The Holographic theory just seems insane to me lol. More-so than anything else, except possibly the Multiverse theories. Have to read a book on that soon, too. |
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| Ted Promo |
| quote: | | If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. |
- Niels Bohr |
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| Lews |
| Bohr has so many good quotes :p |
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| infiniteJEST |
Evidently he was a pain in the ass to argue with because of his slow meticulous manners of expressing himself through writing/speeches etc. (guy struggled to explain the uncertainty principle in comprehensible terms so completely that he had a personal assistant jot down his musings & his wife broke down because his obsession ruined their planned vacation, lol), the philosophical kind where eager students are clinging to his every word because one lost train of thought & you're boned.
I got a book called Uncertainty, Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, & the Struggle for the Soul of Science and chapter 13 is called Awful Bohr Incantation Terminology. :p |
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| pozz |
| quote: | Originally posted by woscar
Almost done with this. Highly recommended.
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why? because he justifies torture by saying that our morals are not yet developed enough to allow us to easily hurt someone without feelings of guilt and remorse and so we should do it at distance through drugs?
dunno about you, but that's flippin' retarded if you ask me.
He's no Nietzsche, my friend. Read him instead. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Added it to my list of things to get some day :p
The Holographic theory just seems insane to me lol. More-so than anything else, except possibly the Multiverse theories. Have to read a book on that soon, too. |
i was obsessed with holographic theories for a while.
i recommend reading david bohm. my favorite book of his that i read was 'wholeness and the implicate order'. |
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| Ted Promo |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
i was obsessed with holographic theories for a while.
i recommend reading david bohm. my favorite book of his that i read was 'wholeness and the implicate order'. |
I'm cheggin' that. Finished Post-American World this morning and snagged the free sample of this. Seems interesting. |
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| Lews |
Just ordered (to add to my stack :p)
Neuromancer Neuromancer
William Gibson
Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, Book 2)
Frank Herbert
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
Why Evolution Is True
Jerry A. Coyne
and pre-ordered:
A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
George R.R. Martin
I probably have enough books for a while now lol |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
i was obsessed with holographic theories for a while.
i recommend reading david bohm. my favorite book of his that i read was 'wholeness and the implicate order'. |
Added to my want-list :) |
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| Tasty Onions |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Why Evolution Is True
Jerry A. Coyne |
I've heard this is really good. Dawkins mentions it in the book I'm reading, too. Let us know how it is. |
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