Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 06:42:37 01/05/03
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On January 05, 2003 at 09:19:52, Sune Fischer wrote: >On January 05, 2003 at 09:10:01, Alessandro Damiani wrote: > >>On January 05, 2003 at 08:51:59, Sune Fischer wrote: >> >>>On January 05, 2003 at 08:34:21, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >>> >>>>>If a field is very advanced it becomes harder and harder to make contributions. >>>>>Why do you think people go to school for 9 years, then another 7 years to get an >>>>>education? And inspite of all your knowledge, how much did you contribute to >>>>>math or chemistry sciences? >>>>> >>>>>Getting new and good ideas is not easy when they have all been "taken". >>>>> >>>> >>>>This is wrong. History proved that: in the past classical physicians thought >>>>they knew almost everything of physics. >>> >>>They were not physicians. They were not even scients, they didn't know the basic >>>principles for good science, so obviously they came to a lot of wrong >>>conclusions. >>> >> >>Wrong conclusions?? Classical physics does still apply! But there is more than >>classical physics out there. That is my point. > >Actually classical physics doesn't apply, only as an approximation, I thought >that was your point. Physics is all about approximation. Nothing more, nothing less. >>The horizon is not related to time, but to >>knowledge. Knowledge is timeless. > >You think the horizon can be pushed forever outwards, that is not so. >Eg. quantum mechanics is pretty much a done deal now. >You need to branch off somewhere and start on something new. > The last sentence contains exactly what I am saying about the horizon. As I said, the horizon is made by theories. By not thinking in horizons means not limiting oneselves to a theory. In the world of such a theory there is a natural limit. But I am talking about the *whole* thing, like the whole physics. Alessandro
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