Stephen Hawking plans to see space

[zengrifter]

Stephen Hawking plans to see space
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 7:48pm GMT 08/01/2007

Prof Stephen Hawking is planning a space flight. The world's best-known scientist, who is 65 today, told The Daily Telegraph: "This year I'm planning a zero-gravity flight and to go into space in 2009."

Prof Hawking's next step towards the cosmos then depends on the Virgin Galactic space tourism plans of Sir Richard Branson, whose SpaceShipTwo will carry six passengers into orbit from 2008.

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[dacium]

I think he is really smart and everything but I just hate the way they 'skip' over the lack of a unified theory and then go on to use both quantum and relativity to come up with all these glory theories which now seem to be falling apart. Far to much time is spent talking about whats ifs. Now we see the big band looks almost certain to not have occured, and knowledge of blackholes is if anything going backwards. Don't even get me started on 'dark' matter! If its not there the theory is broken, don't invent stuff to make it work!

The problem with all these guys is they forget basics like occums razor. If you have to invent dark matter then a theory without dark matter is to be preferred always. And they always believe in formula extending to infinity, where everything has always had a level where it breaks down. Unfrotuently even the great hawking fell into this whole. While he did believe at once that there would be a never ending level or smaller and smaller 'particles' he then changed his mind convinced that the right handed ness etc. meant a lowest level was close. He is very close to already been proven wrong.

Normally I don't care about theories because they are just theories but at academic level you only need to see the tonnes and tonnes of PHD's and thesis that are done on topics that proved false even before the PhD is even started!! Because they are merely doing it for the sake of it. We have made very little progress in the last 50 years in physics, most of it is solely because of computer power and people like hawkings coming up with formula and assessing what-if, instead of looking at data correctly. Most of astronomical physics is in a shambels. Just look at the recent 'findings' that the speed of light may have varied in the past due to light now being found at the wrong wave length and the arguments that continue over this. Either speed of light isn't constant, or it is and the whole theory of almost everything about astronomy is wrong all the way back to red shift being used to calculate motion of distant galaxies and thus the big band... oh well.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by dacium

I think he is really smart and everything but I just hate the way they 'skip' over the lack of a unified theory and then go on to use both quantum and relativity to come up with all these glory theories which now seem to be falling apart.

Until science has thoroughly recognized that the universe only arises within the field of consciousness - a unified theory of consciousness - the externalized science theories will always fall apart. Ala the Holographic Universe. zg