From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 09:25:01 MDT
Robert Bradury said:
<<But Adams and Laughlin have a reasonable chunk of it right
given our current knowledge of physics. >>
:So does Issac Newton
I have not tried to reconcile Dyson with their perspective and suspect our
current knowledge of the nature of the universe(s) may not be complete enough
to do so.
:Yes, although they ought to be the pennultimate authority, frequently there
seems to be enough wiggle-room, for even the best theories to be fungible.
For example; many prominent cosmologists (Linde for example) view the recently
observed evidence for acceleration, as quite possibly to be a sometime thing in
the cosmos. That the acceleration will halt and reverse, and may have already
done so. Many astronomers may disagree, and say that this is a permanent
fixture. I see no point in being pessimistic in a intellectual realm where they
absolutes that we may crave, are themselves merely one fixture in an
increasingly difficult to understand universe.
<<But I do agree with DM, DE, quintessence, etc. everything is very much up
in the air right now (and it doesn't make me (personally) very happy).
Robert>>
:Understood. Hence the need, for us on this list, for scientists who are
problem solvers; including existential problem solvers. Dr Perlmutter, who helped
uncover the accelerating phenomena of the cosmos; seems not to be. At least
not the existential problems that we on this list are fascinated with. Its no
accident that Kurzweil, as a thinker, is more often quoted then Perlmutter.
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