I saw this headline and it reminded me of a talk I went to yesterday that was held at NYU as part of the World Science Festival 2013. The talk was title "Refini

I saw this headline and it reminded me of a talk I went to yesterday that was held at NYU as part of the World Science Festival 2013. The talk was title "Refining Einstein: New Theories of Time" and the guests were:Paul Davies, Craig Callender, Tim Maudlin, and Max Tegmark. Tim is a philosopher, while Max is a physicist and Max kept making an analogy between the "French" speaking (like him, metaphorically and referring to physics concepts) and the "German" speaking Tim. Essentially saying that the German speaking Tim (no really, just metaphorically) constraints his understanding of time to coordinate systems, while him, the French speaking Max, does not constrain himself to that. The video may be posted at http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos http://worldsciencefestival.com/videos at a later time and you can check it out. In any case, what I learned is the philosophy questions everything and sometimes this is good and sometimes it can be troubling because people really believe what they think they understand - this is true in any field. However, one thing that bothers me is that history shows that just as some group thinks they have it figured out, another group/person comes and changes all that (e.g. Feynman, Einstein) and then another group rises from that thinking they are right again - the cycle continues. One last thought is about my first philosophy class, which I very much enjoyed, but the lack of happiness of my professor's face was scary and troubling. After the class, I had so many questions about who I was, my religion, the air I breath, and the things I see/feel, etc. So much questioning cannot be too healthy for the human mind, but philosophical specialization is probably what prevents insanity (I hope).