= Сообщение: 2633 из 12525 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555 17 Aug 15 22:47:03 Кому : Björn Felten 17 Aug 15 22:47:03 Тема : Black Hole at 2:292/854 FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+55d24848 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+55d1ebba = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP850 ================================== ============================================================================== Hello Björn,
On Monday August 17 2015 16:12, you wrote to me:
MvdV>> It was a black hole that met Hawking in the end... ;-)
BF> You make it sound like he's dead. 8-)
Unfortuntely Hawking may as well be. He is in the sad position of being a great mind that is unable to do anything useful with it any more, other than just be there. His output channel has to little bandwidth.. :-(
BF> Kudos to scientists like that, who do *not* hang on to their BF> theories till their dying days -- unlike e.g. Einstein and his BF> religious fanaticism that made him waste the major part of his life BF> trying to disprove quantum mechanics. "Gott würfelt nicht..."
I think Einstein was overrated anyway. His theory of relativity is not all that hard to understand. Maxwell was almost there. In hindsight the Maxwell equations almost say it. And Lorentz with his Lorentz contractions was even closer. How much more do you need to say "Thou shall't not go faster than light"?
People saying that the world would have been very different without Einstein don't understand how science works. If it had not been Einstein that put the final piece of the puzzle in place, it would have been someone else. Not more than five years later.
BF> Wonderful Niels Bohr: "Einstein, don't tell God what to do with his BF> dice."
Einstein was not the only one who could not except that nature is basically unpredictable. Even my fellow student of year 1963, Gerard t'Hooft claims the universe is deterministic. He got the Nobel prize (1999) for his work in quantum mechanics but he agrees with Einstein. He added that in the end it is a moot point because one can not calculate faster than the universe itself.
