Here is what will be published very soon in my book - should be out
Summer 2004 maybe sooner on Amazon, Barnes & Noble et-al:
Of course neither string theory nor loop quantum gravity have made any
hard predictions of any facts, nor have they provided compelling
explanations of the several observational mysteries of precision
cosmology and particle physics. Yet some of the self-appointed guardians
of respectability and ideological purity, reminiscent of
Stalinist-Lysenkoist pseudo-science in the Soviet Union on the LANL
Cornell Archive, as we see, for example, in the shocking Orwellian
McCarthyite blacklisting of dissident physicists like Carlos Castro and
Tony Smith by MacArthur Fellow Cornell physics professor Paul Ginsparg.
Oddly enough, mass media like Scientific American and NOVA PBS are
quick to embrace speculations much more radical than Carlo Castro’s.
These speculations called “M Theory” and “Loop Quantum Gravity” are of
extreme interest no doubt. However, they are,in fact, little more than
admittedly seductive sexy mathematical vaporware. For example, George
Dvali’s remarks in February 2004 Scientific American discussed below.
Just as there are innocent victims on “Death Row” so too are there good
physicists falsely labeled as “crackpots” without due process by a new
generation of over-zealous “Grand Inquisitors” with personal axes to
grind. Sure, there are real “crackpots”, they should be allowed to
publish as well on the tax-supported LANL e-print archive, or else all
tax-money should be withdrawn from it. Let the crackpots be exposed by
refutations on the archive.
On Feb 2, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Carlos Perelman wrote:
Dear Friends :
Both of you ( Brian and Jack) raised and made very good points. Faced
with the Stalinist-Ginsparg censorship doctrine ....
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Best wishes
Carlos
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