On Crackpotism and Other Things | Not Even Wrong - Columbia University From what I remember his chapter on particle theory pretty much completely ignores the standard model, while claiming that properties of particles can be understood using his ideas about cellular automata (and providing no evidence of this) This is crackpotism in a pretty unadulterated form
December | 2004 | Not Even Wrong - Columbia University On Crackpotism and Other Things Posted on December 31, 2004 by woit I haven’t posted anything new here in a while, with the holidays and trying to get over a bad cold keeping me otherwise occupied
More Crackpots | Not Even Wrong Slate this morning has an article by Jim Holt about an interview with Andrei Linde In the interview, Linde speculates that universes like ours could be created in a lab, that maybe we live in such a universe, and that the creator of such a universe could communicate with his her creations by tuning the parameters of its “Landscape”
Mathematical Humor | Not Even Wrong - Columbia University Now for some comic relief: A new issue of the Notices of the AMS is out It contains an entertaining article entitled Foolproof: A Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor with many examples of mathemat…
2004 – Not Even Wrong On Crackpotism and Other Things Posted on December 31, 2004 by woit I haven’t posted anything new here in a while, with the holidays and trying to get over a bad cold keeping me otherwise occupied
Is the Universe Actually Made of Math? | Not Even Wrong He embeds this as “Level IV”, the highest level, of the multiverse, and multiverse mania is one reason he has gotten attention for this and not had it dismissed as crackpotism The idea he is pursuing is that any mathematical structure can be thought of as a “universe”, and we just happen to be in some random one of these
Expanding Crackpottery | Not Even Wrong - Columbia University And this approach will likely look like crackpotism to those accustomed to SM at first This is why I believe unconventional thinking is good and the ideas like ones proposed by Verlinde should be encouraged even if they turn out to be wrong
Comments on: On Crackpotism and Other Things Comments on: On Crackpotism and Other Things [ ] are usually hidden by this isotropy are vitally important! Replacing the Kaluza-Klein theory, Lunsford has a 6-dimensional unification of electrodynamics and gravitation which has 3 time-like di
First Public Reaction From String Theorist to “Not Even Wrong” Last month I made the following prediction: String theory doesn’t make any predictions, but I can make one: Lubos will be among the first reviewers of my book on Amazon, and I’ll get two stars Thi…