[FRIAM] Unstrung

[Hywel White]

Silence is over, the *** was too much.

 

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From: phil henshaw [mailto:pfh at synapse9.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:55 AM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Cc: New Yorker
Subject: [FRIAM] Unstrung

 

So I picked up last week's New Yorker to find one of it's thorough and
insightful articles of the same name, in this case by Jim Holt on the demise
of string theory, and the books by Smolin and Woit.  What caught my
attention was the apparent fact that what caused string theory to suddenly
take over all of theoretical physics is that physics has run out of data!
Apparently everything they've thought of trying to explain has been, except
for a few decimal places and things like cosmology, so the physicists went
off on a wild tear that, having nothing to explain, lead nowhere.

 

I was sort of thinking, if there's a data shortage, maybe they could look at
all the good data we've been tossing in the trash for centuries, the data
tails clipped off and disposed of in the process of approximating the
regular processes we found.   Those 'tails' contain all the evidence we have
of the beginnings and endings of things, all the unstable and connecting
processes.    Is it limitless?   I don't know, but it seems like a door to
nature's deep thought.   At the very least they expose how nature doesn't
conceive of things 'bling bling bling' like we do, but exhaustively
completes every last elaborate step.  Figuring that out seems like it could
last us a good long while.

 


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