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> Enter Lee Smolin, Anyone else recognise his name from years of pop-physics articles about this or that fringe idea .. and nowhere else? I'm amused by the id
by jodrellblank 7y ago
> Enter Lee Smolin,
Anyone else recognise his name from years of pop-physics articles about this or that fringe idea .. and nowhere else?
I'm amused by the idea that he might not even be a real person, but rather a shared pen name used by serious physicists when they want to endorse an idea outside the norm without taking a reputation or status hit from it. An anti-Nicholas-Barbouki, if you will.
- dharmab 7y agoWhat? He's got a Wikipedia page with photos and a biography...
- ssivark 7y agoLOL, I like how you’re thinking. FWIW, there exists a man that calls himself Lee Smolin (and that other physicists also acknowledge to be so), and I’ve met him. I assume he’s the one writing these papers, for he would dispute the use of his name otherwise. Unless he’s been chosen for exactly this role, in which case the conspiracy good to deep... possibly deeper than quantum mechanics! :-)
- lonelappde 7y agoIt's quite rude to say that a real person does not exist, just because you have not bothered to educate yourself about his field.
- jodrellblank 7y agoIt's quite rude to put words in my mouth which I didn't say, then make up some things about what I have or haven't done and use them as an insult against me. "I'm amused by X" != "X is true"