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I think most people have no problem with science being used as a launching pad for speculation, or a source of metaphor and artistic inspiration, or a cultural
by retsibsi 8y ago
I think most people have no problem with science being used as a launching pad for speculation, or a source of metaphor and artistic inspiration, or a cultural product to playfully riff on. The reason some are frustrated by the quoted lines, I think, is that Glass seems to be cloaking his poetic or metaphysical speculations in real science, and perhaps even literally putting them forward as scientific ideas. From that perspective they have more in common with the fuzzy, lazy thinking of pseudoscientists than with the fantastical literature of Borges.
- lowtolerance 8y agoIf you're frustrated by a layman having a layman's understanding of theoretical physics, then you need to re-evaluate your life. Glass is a composer. No one in the world looks to him for guidance on understanding relativity.
- andrepd 8y agoNo one in the world should look to Jenny McCarthy for guidance on vaccination, yet here we are. Dead kids and all.
- lowtolerance 8y agoI’m sorry that you don’t see the difference between the two. Philip Glass isn’t an activist campaigning to alter the public’s understanding of physics. He’s just a guy relaying his beliefs in an interview where he is being pressed to explain them.