Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:00:45 UTC No. 16448675

>>16448665
He comes off as a crackpot. There’s a reason string theory and LQG exist. They didn’t just come out of nowhere. Both have developed out of what’s known as covariant and canonical quantization respectively. These two methods have proven to work for the three other forces of nature. Wolfram comes in from an entirely left field talking about le graphs without being aware of the alternatives. Crackpots do this.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:12:22 UTC No. 16448680

Ahead of his time
Genius and crackpot both sound the same sometimes. Only time proves them right or wrong.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:21:19 UTC No. 16448689

>>16448675
He may be unconventional, but it doesn't hurt to have some new ideas, especially with the current stagnation of fundamental physics. The only criticism I have is that the implications of his theory are vague, but that's to be expected because they're still trying to define it.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:23:59 UTC No. 16448692

>>16448689
It sure doesn’t, but the reality is that physics conferences are full of crackpots that get through via APS membership loopholes. It’s an unfortunate “boy who cried wolf” type situation. Another factor is that professional physicists live off of government gibs (grants is the PC term) and won’t ever let someone privately funded take their jobs.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:34:51 UTC No. 16448703

>>16448692
>take their jobs.
What's there to take? Anyone who's sufficiently intelligent and motivated can start doing theoretical physics research. Universities pay theoreticians to publish papers, but people like Wolfram seem pretty comfortable being self-funded and don't want to get caught up in academia.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:43:36 UTC No. 16448709

>>16448703
You seem to misunderstand. The job of an academic is to beg daddy government for funding by explaining how le important their research is. If their competitor is able to persuade the government better, then no gibs for them. This creates a cutthroat environment with a positive feedback loop of people jumping on trends instead of engaging in diverse, independent research. This is also the reason string theory has dominated HEP theory for the past 30 or so years. They’re just better at writing pretty words to the average Joe at the DoE with their ebig parallel universes, theory of everything and le complicated math. LQG people, who are much more conservative with their goals, have been majorly fucked by this and their research is now confined to Europe, where this cutthroat approach is much less prominent.

Wolfram has a horde of PR managers behind him. He can unleash them onto the DoE creating a new string theory effect where everyone who’s not onto his graph bullshit gets no funding. Understandably, people are unwilling to give him credit. Academia is very political and far removed from the Enlightenment-era ideal of a bored aristocrat discovering laws of nature in his private lab.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:50:51 UTC No. 16448717

>>16448709
Why TF would DoE be funding string theory?

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:52:16 UTC No. 16448720

>>16448717
because the DoE funds all physics research in the US

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:57:25 UTC No. 16448723

>>16448720
Yeah but why? I get why HEP is directly funded, but quantum-gravity and the like are so abstract and useless they might as well be maths.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:59:57 UTC No. 16448725

>>16448723
Big kek. Physics is not supposed to be useful. Physics is about investigating nature. If you want applications, fuck off to the engineering department. You’re part of the problem. HEP theory is the closest we have to actual physics of yore. You know, trying to understand the workings of nature instead of building gadgets like retards in semiconductor research do.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:54:34 UTC No. 16448961

>>16448725
>Physics is not supposed to be useful.
What a fucking cope. If current theories were on the right track they would be incredibly useful.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:57:17 UTC No. 16448966

>>16448961
The right track of any scientific theory is agreement with experiment. That’s it. Utility doesn’t come in at any point.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:10:42 UTC No. 16448986

>>16448665
Only retards would be afraid of him, they should be celebrating whenever someone tries to approach physics from an alternate perspective, it's how you discover better theories.
In a perfect world, all scientists would be more open minded than the public average, but we have so many midwits who've infiltrated sciences for clout. They cling to other peoples work and study it for years without understanding what they're even reading, but they can regurgitate the theoretical framework, while true geniuses understand that nothing is certain, especially when it comes to interpreting the natural system we're embedded in. Perelman was right.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:45:06 UTC No. 16449097

>>16448717
Same genius/crackpot concept. It's not always clear what is or is not valuable until you explore the idea. It is dirty cheap to fund compared to the rest of the military budget, so why not?

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:21:19 UTC No. 16449604

>>16448665
Who?

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:22:04 UTC No. 16449605

>>16448717
Corruption.

Anonymous at Fri, 25 Oct 2024 23:41:02 UTC No. 16449721

>>16448986
Because the moment he hits gold they will be on the streets begging for food. Simple as.