Re: RECLAIMING PHYSICS

reany_at_asu.edu
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: 21 Dec 2004 15:58:17 -0800

vergon_enterprises@highstream.net wrote:
> The discipline of theoretical physics must be saved from the
> mathematicians who have virtually taken it over and turned it into an
> arena of fantasy rather than reality.
>
> How did this happen? A conspiracy? Certainly not.
>
> It is just that mathematics is a very important tool for physics --
> applied or theoretical --and there was no one to draw the line, so
> gradually the mathematical physicists drew ahead of the theoretical
> physicists and made their proclamations. The result is a physics that
> has slipped over into unreality. This represents going up a blind
alley
> with real progress left somewhere outside the stream.

When was the last time that physics dealt with reality and what was the
reality it dealt with?
What does "real progress in physics" look like?

Patrick

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