Mathematics can have its problems, but it's actually hasn't seen a lot of the problems as some of the other sciences and so much of it in what people are doing is completely useless. Nobody kind of in really cares very much. You don't really have kind of right and left and people in ideology coming in because there isn't any. It just doesn't actually connect up to the kinds of things that people ideologically worry about. So most of mathematics just doesn't tell you anything one way or another about global warming or about healthcare or about any number of things that you might care about.
The sole argument generally given to justify this picture of the world is that perturbative string theories have a massless spin two mode and thus co… - Peter Woit
The sole argument generally given to justify this picture of the world is that perturbative string theories have a massless spin two mode and thus co…
- Peter Woit
One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in academia or in the real world where if… - Peter Woit
One of my colleagues likes to say that, mathematics is the - he thinks about the only subject that he knows in academia or in the real world where if…
The main thing to understand about the current state of physics is that we have - are in some sense, a kind of victim of our own success. We have an … - Peter Woit
The main thing to understand about the current state of physics is that we have - are in some sense, a kind of victim of our own success. We have an …
Mathematics can have its problems, but it's actually hasn't seen a lot of the problems as some of the other sciences and so much of it in what people… - Peter Woit
Mathematics can have its problems, but it's actually hasn't seen a lot of the problems as some of the other sciences and so much of it in what people…
Beauty means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. A lot of different ways in which things can be beautiful. But this really has a … - Peter Woit
Beauty means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. A lot of different ways in which things can be beautiful. But this really has a …
The fact that the laws of physics don't change as if you move in time has physical implications that there's this thing called energy and energy is c… - Peter Woit
The fact that the laws of physics don't change as if you move in time has physical implications that there's this thing called energy and energy is c…
Just because you're starting from something which you know - a theory which you know is right and trying to further develop your understand of that t… - Peter Woit
Just because you're starting from something which you know - a theory which you know is right and trying to further develop your understand of that t…
One problem of the String Theory is that it's kind of a theory which can explain what the problems are, but the problems are such that you can't even… - Peter Woit
One problem of the String Theory is that it's kind of a theory which can explain what the problems are, but the problems are such that you can't even…
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