[Serious] Is the Past Real?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

This is what happens when PhD = village elder, not just someone who's studied science for a long time.  People make up untestable bullshit, and say, "Harrruummmmph. . . in my considerably erudite opinion, 50 million fairies could dance on the tip of a pin" and dum dums say, "Well. . . a PHYSICIST said it, so it must be a valid scientific idea."

If only people were honest enough to accpet "I don't know, and we probably never can know" as a valid position on physical reality.

no, it is much better to dismiss what physics says about physics in favor of folksy put downs  because, oh, untutored intuition is so much more reliable and making common cause with anti-intellectual morons afford so much more promise as a path forward.

I think that applies to any field of study.  

'Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.' - Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski

Boru