What is this buffoonery? This doesn’t even sound like real science!
“In order to create an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
“I am not very good at singing, but I will try. Poof! Phew! Poof! Phew!”
“A still more glorious dawn awaits us, not to a sunrise, but a galaxyrise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns.”
“Space is filled with a network of wormholes, you might emerge somewhere else in space.”
This is just an infotainment to amuse twelve year olds, so I guess it served that purpose for me at that age, although I never felt I got anything out of it, not one bit of enlightenment, but just some fanciful ideas that don’t really mean anything. Nice mental masturbation, and that’s it. I liked that “sense of wonder” feeling, but there are science fiction novels and Lovecraft stories that do a better job.
All this sounds more like spiritual shamanism than anything. Actually, I was never really good at high school physics, because it made very little sense to me. I mean, atoms have one tiny nucleus, and then relatively a football field’s size of free space beyond which you have electrons randomly moving around. Uh huh, so if there is so much free space, why couldn’t matter pass through other matter? Attraction and repulsion, supposedly, it’s just that simple. And yet still it still doesn’t explain why those protons are held together in the nucleus.
I am saying all this in frustration at all the news about the Large Hardon Collider. A means of finding the “God” particle. A bird in France dropped a croissant on the machine and it malfunctioned. A Japanese scientist then concluded that the LHC was sabotaging itself from the future, as it had time travelled there in its operation, and thus wanted to destroy the LHC in the past itself in order to prevent the universe from exploding. What a joke! Is this what theoretical physics is?
Someone once was remarking from what he learnt in Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals And Society that while engineers and doctors are judged by end results and output, an intellectual’s work is judged and valued by other intellectuals. And this theoretical physics of modern age is all input and no output, and now I am disgusted to be a member of the human race when billions of dollars are being spent on phoney scientific research.
We didn’t achieve division of labour, specialization, trade, property, and capital generation just to waste it all on mediocrity of fraudulent “scientific progress”, which only exists after these things and not before. What this actually means is that we did not create civilization to squander it on these useless scientists who live off on government grants and donations.