B. U. G. S.

Antonio says:

NOT SPAM

You know the role of modern physics has expanded to the point where it encompasses much of chemistry, cosmology, astronomy and even certain subspecialties of biology.
There’s hardly a problem today that can’t be reduced to the spin of a proton.

Wouldn’t it be funny if one day in the future genetic engineering and nanotech made the roles of philosopher, lawyer and judge redundant because the physician could cure evil by programming it away?

Comment by Antonio Fini

MY REPLY:

I leave in the NOT SPAM because I NEED it.

Antonio knows very well that what he predicts in the second paragraph is EXACTLY what is going to happen.

On his first paragraph, Antonio knows that protons don’t spin.*

But the second paragraph really gets to the point of the piece Antonio is talking about.

Grown men running around in black robes and academic gowns and dictating reality is silly.

You only need robes when you have to act like you have something special to say and you don’t.

The only reason an adult runs around in a robe is because the questions they are dealing with have not been subjected to serious, definitive questioning yet. A serious physicist can walk around buck naked wihtout it making any difference to whether he is right or wrong.

* Yes, in some of the hundreds of versions of string theory, you could argue they do spin. But you would be astonished to know how few people worry about that.