Jim Baggott

What a horrifying thought. A version of reality constructed from all your mistakes. 😳

Only 75??

Deeply, deeply disappointing.

In 2011, Microsoft ran a spoof campaign highlighting GMail’s use of private mails to develop targeted advertising. Take a look at this video, 'Gmail man videos' share.google/8XIqUlI0xFAU...

The irascible Swiss astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky would call colleagues ‘spherical bastards’, as they were bastards from all angles.

You don’t have any friends. Nobody likes you.

Please share. 💔

Good luck with that. 😂

Even more amusing as I’m currently working on a new book titled ‘The Two Lives of Schrodinger’s Cat’. 🙀

Quantum Reality

See here: www.jimbaggott.com/books/quantu...

This is an absolute disgrace. So the values held by society haven’t changed in 323 years (Isaac Newton was elected president of the Royal Society in 1703)?

Dark Energy may be changing and with it the fate of the Universe A mysterious force called Dark Energy might be changing, in a way that challenges our current understanding of the nature of time and space.

Alternative headline: ‘Astronomers are still arguing about the dark energy equation of state’.

Dark energy just got even weirder and why the Universe may end in a 'Big Crunch' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through home galaxy at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!' "The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."

www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

I raise you a quantum teaspoon and a Bose Einstein teapot and a splash of Higgs condensate. And two sugars.

Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.

*Hapgood* was one of my favourite Stoppard plays. Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’m afraid so. I blaming the ageing process.

I vaguely recall there were a couple of guys who wrote books about this.

2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) - Wikipedia

Ok. So what’s your version of events? I’m afraid the evidence about the screenplay is widely available and the Wikipedia entry clearly states that the book was published after the film. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A...

… the book based on the screenplay. I recall reading the book at age 11 or 12 in an attempt to understand what I’d watched at the cinema. 😳

I don’t think this is correct. Kubrick and Clarke co-wrote the screenplay, based on several Clarke short stories, but specifically one titled The Sentinel. Clarke worked on the screenplay whilst staying at the Chelsea Hotel in NYC, where I had the pleasure (?) of staying in 1983. Clarke then wrote…

It’s been many years since I read Arthur C. Clarke’s novel based on the movie, but I recall that HAL went mad because it was charged to protect the mission at all costs, and the purpose of the mission was known only to those crew members in hibernation.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

The truth about impartiality at the BBC And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

Well worth reading in full. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Nice try.

Britain is not a country of racist bigots.

Time for the decent majority to "take back control".

Repost if you agree.

… and ask yourself: how were these problems eventually resolved?

‘Convincingly’? If you say so. There are lots of unresolved problems: quantum gravity, origin of life, aspects of big bang cosmology… what arguments can I advance that science will eventually resolve these? Call it faith if you wish, but also look back to the ‘hard problems’ of 100 or 200 years ago…

Well, that’s not wrong and, in my view, not mocking either.

This is not a problem, and being critical is not ‘mocking’. If you believe scientists and philosophers should be prevented from critical analysis because they can’t ’come up with something better’ then I’d recommend a couple of books on the history and science and philosophy.

The answer is, of course, no. As Nigel explains.