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Subject: Re: [OM] OK, Flowers, or ?? [was Everything OK on the list?]
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:23:57 -0500
Wayne, since I last studied physics in 1947 & 48, I can't offer anything to those questions.  But, I do like your images, especially the first one.  Did the stone face speak to you?

On 4/15/21 9:45 AM, Wayne Shumaker wrote:
At 4/14/2021 04:29 PM, Moose wrote:

On 4/10/2021 3:55 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
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The competing  hypotheses are at the top of the stretch with the New Physics 
Bernie Sanders horse leading by a nose but the SM horse is still very much in 
contention with the incorrect measurement horse a length behind.
Which horse will win?
As with a horse race, there will be a winner - but then another race.

Stupidest quote from a physicist:

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in 
it.”
              ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

Historically, that has NEVER been true. Don't bet on it becoming true in our 
lifetimes, or long after.

Are you following the folks theorizing that black holes - aren't? The theory 
I've read about is that they are a heretofore unknown additional state of 
matter. Robert Laughlin is doing the math on that one.
I've been reading the latest book by Michio Kiku (theoretical physicist) called "The 
God Equation - The quest for a theory of Everything". Very smooth reading on the 
development of physics theories over time to the present, and the physicists behind them.

  From the book, a quote about the standard model:

"So three of the four forces of the universe could now be unified into a single 
theory, the Standard Model. The resulting theory was not very pretty, since it was 
created by cobbling together the symmetries of the strong, weak and electromagnetic 
forces, but it worked. But when we apply this tried-and-true method to gravity, we have 
problems."

With string theory gravity naturally falls out. I would put the SM as something 
to be replaced. And then that theory be replaced, and so on...

Whether we find a theory of everything, I can't say. Fascinating how new 
discoveries are made by the types of questions/assumptions that are asked and 
where they lead. I was always impressed that mathematics required postulates. 
For instance Euclidean geometry has the postulate that two parallel lines never 
meet. But if you change that postulate you get non-Euclidean geometry. I 
believe there will always be new things to discover and our understanding ever 
changing. Changing assumptions can lead to new things. What happens when you 
let go of,or question, assumptions and beliefs? Chaos, Creativity, Imagination, 
Freedom...?

I'm excited with what has been discovered to date, and how quantum photons can 
now be counted in my camera. As a creature of habit, though, habit is the 
biggest obstacle to my photography and I feel in a rut sometimes. How to see 
anew? So, Moose's photos speaks to seeing, which I find inspirational. Thanks. 
Getting out of my photography funk the other day...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/f4TV39DuUnXns8js8
https://photos.app.goo.gl/iedQCUBJ8hTz6kTo9
... A7Riii and 24-105/4 (uncropped)

I'm glad that today, thinking other stars are suns like ours, with planets 
around them and possible life like ours, will no longer get one tortured and 
burned at the stake - poor monk Giordano Bruno. I fear those with strong belief 
systems and hold to conspiracy theories as truth. History has not been kind to 
those who bump into such people.

Free Thinker - WayneS

"Interesting if true."

--
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

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