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Crank or good scientist?

Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 00:20:44 2020 No.11385751 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11385757 >>11385848 >>11386401

whats the consensus

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2020 00:22:43 No.11385757 Report

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>>11385751
why not both?

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2020 00:50:51 No.11385848 Report

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>>11385751
Solidness. Math so damn good it makes his eyes shake.

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2020 00:51:39 No.11385853 Report

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2020 00:54:46 No.11385859 Report

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He's a big nose guy.

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2020 01:09:43 No.11385902 Report

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Who?

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2020 01:33:49 No.11385971 Report

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>FREEMAndySON

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Aeris Turtle Sat 15 Feb 2020 03:48:21 No.11386301 Report

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>>11385757
>>11385853

Agreed. He's kinda similar to Penrose or even Atiyah or Einstein, long stellar career during prime years, followed by crankery in old age. It's a good observation that old physicists can be that way. There are many exceptions though.

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2020 03:53:10 No.11386310 Report

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>>11386301
disagree about Einstein.Einstein kept to himself in his little world with his little collaborators like Klein and Podolsky....

I do agree however that Dyson has similarities to Penrose. one guy you should add to that list is 't Hooft. the three of them represent luminaries who all went a bit "fringe" after the string era took off.

then again none of them are as smart as Witten so string doubters are outbrained in this argument

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2020 04:36:42 No.11386401 Report

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>>11385751
Cranky, but at least he proposes how to test some of his wild ideas. Like he says their could be life that makes its own green houses far out in space, and then proposes how to look for it by shining a bright light. Nuts, but it's testable.

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