@Frank Apisa,
That's your problem.
You think intelligence is the prime indicator of a human being.
Which is more important?
A man of average intelligence who spends their life helping out people on a remote island, becomes sick and dies after providing clean water for an entire town? (Pick any missionary or volunteer)
Or a "genius" who spends their time coming up with inapplicable science theories (Stephen Hawking springs to mind, for the life of me, I cannot think of a single thing that man has done for humanity)?
You would rather soulless assholes destroy humanity than admit that the people you look up to are "Nobody Important."
Great people are not great because they are brilliant.
People are great because they have virtue, commitment, kindness. I respect the Buddha, I respect Jesus, I respect Gandhi, because they did things. I have no respect for Mlodinow or Hawking for wasting everyone's time pushing secular philosophy instead of making science that actually helps people.
I have even less respect for anal-retentive Dr Fauci, who actively preventing people from doing things with their lives.
On the other hand, Tesla and Edison were fine inventors. I have no use for scientists that don't make anything. Virtue, commitment, and kindness. Even a scientist should make it their goal to develop something that improves the lives of others. They are virtuous as they invent for the good of humanity. They are committed, in that they test their results, making sure that they work. Even I can claim to have invented code, but I have no idea how original it is. Lastly, they are kind. They are not willing to release dangerous devices on the public.
"Wow, that Hawking guy in a wheelchair is brilliant!"
Oh really? What has he done?
"He made several theorems in general relativity (riding on the bootstraps of Einstein), made a prediction that black holes emit radiation (we can't even prove black holes and dark matter exist, so it's a theory of a theory), which he names Hawking radiation (oh good, he's also a narcissist). Oh yeah, and he was involved with quantum theories."
Yeah that's great. How is my life any better than before this man was born?
I respect the guy who invented Hawkin's chair (Walter Woltosz). Not Hawking himself. One of these men was a genius inventor who improved quality of life for people with ALS and other issues. Like Walter Woltosz, my grandpa helped in the space program (he helped with the suits). I think he was in production rather than the actual invention. Doesn't matter. I'm no less proud of him.
Hawking never invented one thing. Neither did Degrasse Tyson.
Did Hawking ever invent anything?
Was Hawking Smarter than Tesla
Quote:For me, if a theory cannot be transferable to any useful technology, it’s as good as theories of Unicorns and dragons. They are good only for movie scripts. That’s why sci-fi movies are full of these spacetime, black hole, worm hole, time travel concepts. Hardly you will see a movie which comprehend natural philosophy. It would be too boring, at-least for 21st century audiences.
Scientists of today think unnecessarily too deeply and not clearly. They are mostly mathematicians and rarely have any connection to nature. Ever since relativity is pushed as mainstream, no significant invention happened in the past hundred years. Science is hijacked into a religious cult with very little scope for critical thinking.
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All our modern technologies use science before 1920. No technology uses anything related to relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory etc.
Hawking was pillar of corruption in science. Just like Einstein, he had no idea of the units and disciplines of measurement. Because they will never going to experiment anything as its useless for them. These people had no idea how to formulate a theory of measurement and the theory he developed takes no notice of the modern approach to measurement and worse, contradicts some of its fundamental principles.
As a fundamental requirement, a theory of measurement always assumes an absolute standard of measurement. The relativity theory begins with its first postulate by making the assumption that no such absolute conception exists. Therefore the theory is dead as a scientific theory of measurement, because no scientific theory at all can be built on the shifting sands of the assumption that any one and all inertial reference frames are equally valid as a frame within which the standards of measurement can be defined. Such a theory is obviously a contradiction, since no clear meaning can be assigned to any measurement, since all are relatively absolute to each other at the same time.
Hawking also lacks basic understanding of thermodynamics. He extended the absurd black concept and derived an equation for it’s temperature as:
T = ħc^3/8πGMk
Here,
T is temperature,
ħ is reduced Planck's constant,
G is constant of gravitation,
M is black hole mass, and
k is Boltzmann's constant.
Now ħ, G and k are universal constants so they have no thermodynamic character.
The numbers 8 and π are pure numbers so they too have no thermodynamic character.
Temperature T and mass M have thermodynamic character. Temperature is always intensive, according to the 0th and 2nd laws of thermodynamics.
Mass is not intensive, mass is extensive.
In any thermodynamic equation the units must be the same on both sides (dimensional analysis) and the thermodynamic character must also balance.
Hawking's equation equates temperature, which is always intensive, to a combination of terms which is not intensive. His equation is therefore in violation of the laws of thermodynamics. So it’s false.
Now I admit that I don't know modern science, and math was one of my worst subjects. But even to me, the 8 and the pi appear to be pulled out of Hawking's ass. Why 8? And pi is typically used to measure rotations within a circle.
Enjoy your "scientific" unicorns people. As for me, I trust scientists that built things of merit. As my great aunt would put it, "Isn't electricity wonderful?" (She said this to change the subject away from heated debates, but yes, it's a real marvel)