The source was clearly stated. It came from the lips of Dara Ó Briain, a graduate in mathematics and theoretical physics.
You'll find his quote here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dara_...asionally bite the insides of our own mouths?
You may have a kindred spirit with Dara as he is best known for his stand-up comedy! 😉
Dara co-presented with Prof. Brian Cox in Stargazing Live and conducted a series of interviews with theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
So back to you, from where did you get the quote “you can never prove a hypothesis to be false.”?
Gaul, I must’ve deduced it from all the skeptics who keep repeating, like parrots, “I bet it won’t pass a controlled double blind test.” Theoretical physics. Check. Mathematics. Check.
Herbig-Haro objects were mentioned back on page 41.
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/H/Herbig-Haro+Object
The above Hubble image shows a supersonic jet of gas being ejected from a young star and colliding with the gas and dust in the surrounding nebula to form wispy knots of emission known as Herbig-Haro objects. This example is catalogued as HH111.
I almost forgot, declaring that someone, or yourself, is a theoretical physics and mathematics guy is one of the oldest logical fallacies known to man. That’s why I don’t do it. 😲
You like to use that term, but with no explanation.
Forgive me, I wasn't very good at English at school! They tried to teach us puir wee Scots bairns Shakespeare for goodness sake!
How would declaring yourself a physicist or mathematician be a logical fallacy?
Looks like it may be the "Appeal to Authority"?
But that's where we would expect meaningful quotes (that's what we were talking about) to come from, someone with authority.
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Yes, let's lighten up people. There's Science and there's the more useless Philosophy of Science.
If it works it's good Science. If it doesn't, it's WRONG!
Consider the Tetrahedron Puzzle aka the Pyramid Puzzle:
IIRC, I found this in a plastic version in a Christmas Cracker when I was a young and er, ahem, extremely promising Mathematician:
Rearrange the two pieces into a familiar shape...
TADA!
Hint:
Now let's move on. 🙂
If it works it's good Science. If it doesn't, it's WRONG!
Consider the Tetrahedron Puzzle aka the Pyramid Puzzle:
IIRC, I found this in a plastic version in a Christmas Cracker when I was a young and er, ahem, extremely promising Mathematician:
Rearrange the two pieces into a familiar shape...
TADA!
Hint:
Now let's move on. 🙂
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Here's something just to 'rattle the cages' of the smart ***** >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes
Some of those are nonsense and created solved purely as thought experiments.
For example what happens if an irresistible force (or object) meets an immovable object?
The irresistible object passes through the immovable object, thus both retain their status.
For example what happens if an irresistible force (or object) meets an immovable object?
The irresistible object passes through the immovable object, thus both retain their status.
Today’s pseudoscience is tomorrow’s science. I’m not making a quote here, either. 😬
”They wouldn’t have given me the Nobel if I could explain it to the average person.” - Richard Feynman
”They wouldn’t have given me the Nobel if I could explain it to the average person.” - Richard Feynman
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Irresistible Force (Met the Immovable Object)
A song by American rock band Jane's Addiction, described as "Perry Farrell sounding like Carl Sagan in an episode of Cosmos, musing ominously about the stars and some sort of big bang."
A song by American rock band Jane's Addiction, described as "Perry Farrell sounding like Carl Sagan in an episode of Cosmos, musing ominously about the stars and some sort of big bang."
Note on Carl Sagan, author of Contact, made into a movie starring Jodie Foster. He had Kip Thorne of LIGO fame review the draft of his book, in case there were any obvious science errors. As it turned out Sagan had Ellie go to the distant planet via a Black Hole, which Thorne convinced him to change to wormhole, the FTL device used in the movie. Good catch, Kip! (Yes, I know what you’re thinking, wormholes are not really a great idea, either.)
Kip Thorne seems to get around!
I mentioned back on page 52 that Kip Thorne wrote The Science of Interstellar, a follow up to the 2014 film Interstellar.
He served as scientific consultant and executive producer on the film.
Best, in a scientific thread such as this, to focus on the "Physical Paradoxes": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_paradox
For example, Olbers' Paradox (which I mentioned back on page 69) or the Twin Paradox of special relativity.
I got Thorne to autograph his book about 22 years ago, about the tie LIGO was trying to develop super low resonant frequency vibration isolation systems. A school chum of mine was executive director of Rogers Commission for investigating the Shuttle disaster and clashed with Richard Feynman, whose input was kept out of the final report by my school chum.
One audio hobby related paradox is what I mentioned yesterday - or was it the day before? High purity silver cables and interconnects oft sound worse than high purity copper cables of the same general type/design, I.e., dielectric, geometry, length. It’s a paradox because silver has a higher conductivity (more free electrons) than copper AND silver cables are usually much more expensive.
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