Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Philosophy Wire: Complicated science…


Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-05-10]: The very first experimental observations of knots in quantum matter have just been reported. The scientists created knotted solitary waves, or knot solitons, in the quantum-mechanical field describing a gas of superfluid atoms, also known as a Bose--Einstein condensate. [1] Complicated phrases. Conveying a complicated truth. A simple way to impress the unworthy. A perfect way to show you are also one…

PS. Surely science can be complicated and you must be an expert to understand some things. But this does not mean that everything has to be so frustratingly pointlessly weird. Parmenides and Aristotle conveyed much greater truths in a much more simple way…

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