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Building out the toolkit of physics is vital to the advance of physics itself, and last I checked Ptolemy hasn't produced tools that have advanced our understan
by glenstein 2y ago
Building out the toolkit of physics is vital to the advance of physics itself, and last I checked Ptolemy hasn't produced tools that have advanced our understanding of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in black holes.
- 77pt77 2y agoThose guys basically developed Fourier analysis with very clunky notation. We'll be very lucky if these guys are doing anything even remotely as useful.
- glenstein 2y agoThey produced conceptual breakthroughs that have advanced our understanding of black hole physics in ways not previously possible. If that was just lying around as a simple repurposing of a Fourier analysis, it wouldn't have sat around as an unresolved problem for decades. But I understand that words meaning things is not part of the operative definition of success in the goalpost relocation industry.
- 77pt77 2y agoIt's getting harder and harder to hide the complete lack of achievement. You can only strike each others' egos for so long.