I can't believe that anyone would ask Peter Woit, professed fearless leader of the Loop Quantum Anthropic Priciple Haters Association... to review a book about anthropic physics:
My problem with anthropic reasoning isn’t that it is never a legitimate form of logical argument, the problem is that it may not be science, since you can’t use it to make falsifiable predictions.
Woit doesn't know that the goldilocks constraint makes testable predictions.
John Baez doesn't have a clue either.
The list goes on and on...
I've responded to John Baez on the moderated research group, but it isn't like they didn't have to willfully ignore stuff that I've already explained about it, which makes what they're saying nothing more than dogmatic denial:
[and I'll put the link here when it is approved]
I'd never experienced the unscientific motivations that actually drive theoretical physics, until I accidentally discovered the anthropic principle, myself.
But I never would have dreamed that the vast amount of knowlege that was hidden just below the surface of the biggest freaking nightmare of my life was so easy to find because only me-n-Paul Davies are honest enough to take a straight look.
Somebody shoot me.
Update:
I got rejected on my first attempt by Igor, who told me that I hadn't included any physics. So I did that and resubmitted.
2 comments:
The drivel written by the haters-of-the-anthropic-principle is caused by the Parrot Effect.
I cannot understand why people hate (the weak form of) the anthropic principle. I am also amazed that many claim that it is not testable. There seems to be a lot of cultural dogma amongst physicists (hence my pointer to the "Parrot Effect" above).
The observed data (i.e. our existence) constrains what the laws of physics could be(i.e. implies a posterior probability over laws-of-physics), which then implies lots of other phenomena that you can go and measure (i.e. it is testable).
I have pre-ordered "The Goldilocks Enigma" from Amazon.
Thankyou so much more than you'll ever know, Steve. I tried to respond to Baez on Woit's blog, but he no longer welcomes my input.
Not that I need to waste any more time explaining a damned thing to that blank wall.
Thanks again, Steve, really.
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