RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
June 6, 2015 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2015 at 11:21 am by Pyrrho.)
(June 6, 2015 at 12:53 am)JuliaL Wrote: ...
BTW, do the philosophers of science actually understand what you do? Or are they just faking it?
The answer to that is going to depend on which ones you have in mind. For the most part, I think they don't understand what people like Alex do, and are just faking it, writing and speaking a good deal of nonsense. Fortunately, scientists basically ignore them and just go about their business as usual. So it is pretty harmless, except that it is the sort of thing that pretentious pseudo-intellectuals pontificate about to make themselves seem important. One can hear them in person if one has the misfortune to be subjected to them, or one can read their posts online.
It will be interesting to see if Alex K agrees or not. I am pretty sure he would not word it as brutally as I have.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
