But then he’ll come out with a piece of utterly lucid reasoning on applying Bayes’ theorem to the Born probabilities like http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0611245 . Very, very strange man.
Wow. While I’m unsurprised that Tipler would take issue with yet another poetical injection of something that superficially looks like quantum physics into yet another unrelated subject area, I’m more surprised that he’d express it in such a bizzare manner. There’s a whole paragraph where he name-drops his academic genealogy. And then he acts like Obama is making these claims, when at best he contributed “analytic and research assistance”, whatever that means.
I read The Physics of Immortality as an undergrad in ’04 and was skeptical of his major claims. I’m disappointed by his downward spiral into crackpot territory.
The Tipler/Obama/aether connection seemed bizarre enough that I looked it up:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-vs-einstein/
Some quotes:
Einstein’s general relativity is just a special case of Newtonian gravity theory incorporating the ether
Hamilton-Jacobi theory is deterministic, hence quantum mechanics is equally deterministic
There was absolutely nothing revolutionary about twentieth century physics.
I agree on the “random” part.
That’s nothing. Read the full paper—http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1271310 . Forty-five pages of the most gloriously wrong thinking you’ll ever come across in your life.
But then he’ll come out with a piece of utterly lucid reasoning on applying Bayes’ theorem to the Born probabilities like http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0611245 . Very, very strange man.
I think this is a relevant rationality quote: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2ev/rationality_quotes_july_2010/28nw
Wow. While I’m unsurprised that Tipler would take issue with yet another poetical injection of something that superficially looks like quantum physics into yet another unrelated subject area, I’m more surprised that he’d express it in such a bizzare manner. There’s a whole paragraph where he name-drops his academic genealogy. And then he acts like Obama is making these claims, when at best he contributed “analytic and research assistance”, whatever that means.
I read The Physics of Immortality as an undergrad in ’04 and was skeptical of his major claims. I’m disappointed by his downward spiral into crackpot territory.