What you are talking about are artifacts that helps the brain fool itself.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I see. If you can't understand or hear what is happening, it is simply that people are being fooled again. Damn I hate when that happens 😀
Because you're expounding on something about which you have little knowledge?
I know enough philosophy to know that QM isn't the whole show - Joshua does too as he's pointed out one of its limitations. I freely admit zero knowledge in the area of, for example, Quantum Field Theory. I just don't see how its relevant when commenting on the practice of physics nowadays.
I know more about, say, genetics than the Average Joe, but there's no way on a forum devoted to garage bioscience where there are real experts that I'd try telling people about what genetics does and doesn't say, and quote-mining James Watson. But that's just me, feel free to expound, there's no rules against it.
Don't see how your analogy is relevant here to what I've been saying - if there are indeed real experts on the state of physics today lurking in the background, I'd like to hear from them. They'll need to address the points Smolin makes in his book with cogent rebuttals. I'm quite capable of holding my own against reasonable arguments. I'm only going to expound if there's any curiosity, otherwise I'll keep my enormous learning for another opportunity.😀
if there are indeed real experts on the state of physics today lurking in the background, I'd like to hear from them.
Last time I've checked, Schroedinger is dead, Heisenberg also doesn't feel very well and Stephen Hawking is still busy in Oxford.
Would you settle for a couple of PhD's?
One doesn't need philosophy for that, since no-one has ever made that claim. And the whole QM thing is irrelevant to designing a hifi preamp. But some people confuse religion and scamming with actual science, so that was the point I've addressed.I know enough philosophy to know that QM isn't the whole show
Uncertainty in physics
What are their PhDs in ? Incidentally I wouldn't rate Hawking on the sociology of physics - whereas he's pretty hot on cosmology I understand.
Last time I checked, Schroedinger is dead, Heisenberg wasn't sure and Stephen Hawking is still busy in Oxford.
Would you settle for a couple of PhD's?
What are their PhDs in ? Incidentally I wouldn't rate Hawking on the sociology of physics - whereas he's pretty hot on cosmology I understand.
One doesn't need philosophy for that, since no-one has ever made that claim.
You're on record as claiming Joshua misunderstood basic physics for saying something similar to that - that QM is rather odd and obviously incomplete.
And the whole QM thing is irrelevant to designing a hifi preamp.
I've claimed that its not, since QM helps point the way towards resolving the subjective/objective dichotomy in audio. John appears to me to be leaning in that direction too with the book list he's given us.
But some people confuse religion and scamming with actual science, so that was the point I've addressed.
Where? Did I miss it?
Where? Did I miss it?
Like, "What the Bleep do we Know?".
… if there are indeed real experts on the state of physics today lurking in the background, I'd like to hear from them.
When I quoted here known physicist, he was ridiculed.
Like, physics and related?
Why would having a PhD in physics be relevant to understanding the state of physics nowadays? The state of physics as a discipline is a social matter, not covered by physics itself. Of course experience of having worked within the discipline of physics is relevant but a PhD is totally unnecessary for that.
Last time I've checked, ........... Stephen Hawking is still busy in Oxford.
..............I hope that you check your more important information with greater care; Stephen Hawking is a Cambridge man....NOT Oxford.
When I quoted here known physicist, he was ridiculed.
Yes, as you've pointed out, that's a social phenomenon. I too noted that the comments made were not in any sense scientific comments.

..............I hope that you check your more important information with greater care; Stephen Hawking is a Cambridge man....NOT Oxford.
Yes, shame on me.
What the bleep?
Oh, I bought the DVD of it but couldn't bear it. Seemed to cloud the issues much more than clarify. Poor film - well I only watched the first, maybe, 15mins. Marlee Matlin was way way better in 'Children of a Lesser God'.
Like, "What the Bleep do we Know?".
Oh, I bought the DVD of it but couldn't bear it. Seemed to cloud the issues much more than clarify. Poor film - well I only watched the first, maybe, 15mins. Marlee Matlin was way way better in 'Children of a Lesser God'.
Oh, I bought the DVD of it but couldn't bear it. Seemed to cloud the issues much more than clarify. Poor film - well I only watched the first, maybe, 15mins. Marlee Matlin was way way better in 'Children of a Lesser God'.
You are now in trouble.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/soli...rch-preamplifier-part-ii-257.html#post1977217
"What the Bleep do we Know?".
Come on guys, why so much bandwidth wasted on garbage like that film?
How about going back to preamps, psu, distortion, etc.
General question for John, syn08, and all of you who are actively designing circuits using transistors: why did you go the transistor way, and stayed away from tubes?
General question for John, syn08, and all of you who are actively designing circuits using transistors: why did you go the transistor way, and stayed away from tubes?
Because I already have central heating, don't need to impress a GF, I hate signal transformers, and can't afford swapping them every twelve months.
I like complementary designs that tubes don't allow. I used tubes, exclusively, for the first 5 years of my getting into hi fi, and a Dyna Pas3 or a Mac C22 for the next 5 years, until Mark and I developed the JC-2 preamp. I hated early solid state, still do.
All else being equal, tubes are better. but solid state is a real intellectual challenge, and more practical too.
All else being equal, tubes are better. but solid state is a real intellectual challenge, and more practical too.

Yes, let's put an end to the useless dribble shall we? It's raining today so I have a lot of time to put the naughty boys in the coarse sand box when they misbehave.
Anymore catty banter just gives me the opportunity to flex my binning muscles.
Fair enough?
Thank you.
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