tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post8962297804997018119..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: Science controversies in Physics TodayEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-79099254394915329262018-01-20T01:01:43.027-05:002018-01-20T01:01:43.027-05:00
prof premraj pushpakaran writes -- 2018 marks the...<br />prof premraj pushpakaran writes -- 2018 marks the 100th birth year of Julian Seymour Schwinger!!!prof prem raj pushpakaranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14561237920972677898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-68485267244724959142012-10-23T13:44:34.785-04:002012-10-23T13:44:34.785-04:00Russell --- Literature and Peace prizes are the w...Russell --- Literature and Peace prizes are the whims of the Norwegians.Taniahttp://www.joblink-inc.org/michiganjobs/1/site.pl/careerbuilder/retail.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-84696409137605747332011-11-17T23:35:35.317-05:002011-11-17T23:35:35.317-05:00Sad to see string theory getting a populist gloss ...Sad to see string theory getting a populist gloss from PBS. Lubos Motl et al., not even wrong? Feynman seemed right to me on the subject. Pretty but not practical/practicable.<br /><br />But what do I know? Please don't condemn all aging physicists just because some did or did not earn their Nobels and went off the reservation later. Angels fear to tread and all that.<br /><br />(Susan Anderson)susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16829151452002682271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-7164853753332472011-11-11T09:38:01.794-05:002011-11-11T09:38:01.794-05:00"Nobel Dreams"
-- by Horatio Algeranon
..."Nobel Dreams"<br />-- by Horatio Algeranon<br /><br />Now that I've won<br />The nobel prize <br />I can close<br />My weary eyes<br /><br />And speculate<br />About goofy things<br />Like global cooling<br />And moody ringsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-71228439498605005512011-11-11T01:37:23.024-05:002011-11-11T01:37:23.024-05:00Caerbannog, remember that MBH98 + 99 were not glob...Caerbannog, remember that MBH98 + 99 were not global either, but the whole Northern Hemisphere.<br /><br />MarcoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-67519118409277490322011-11-10T22:10:52.346-05:002011-11-10T22:10:52.346-05:00Hey, a rejectionist who actually knew HH Lamb exis...Hey, a rejectionist who actually knew HH Lamb existed :) Oh no, they didn't know his graphic was for Central England only :( Next thing, someone'll be claiming Lamb was the founding director of CRU! <a href="http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/about/history/" rel="nofollow">Oh...... sorry Jay.</a><br /><br />* <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/medievalwarmperiod/Home/p171--172-of-lamb-s-climate-history-the-modern-world" rel="nofollow">Extract from pages 171-172 of H. Lamb’s 'Climate, History and the Modern World' 1982.</a><br />* <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/Common-graphical-tricks-and-the-Medieval-Warm-Period.html" rel="nofollow">Common graphical tricks and the Medieval Warm Period</a>J Bowersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-25747607142056485792011-11-10T20:09:57.827-05:002011-11-10T20:09:57.827-05:00...H.H. Lamb's graph was wrong and needed to b...<i><br />...H.H. Lamb's graph was wrong and needed to be altered. <br /></i><br /><br />Well, this proves that you don't have the intellectual firepower for the Pizza Home Delivery business. So from now on, it's "Jay Cadbury Post Hole Digger".<br /><br />The Lamb illustration from the IPCC FAR was *not* a global (or even a hemispherical) reconstruction. It was a schematic derived from historical temperature information from one small part of England. Someone who has the geographical/navigational skills to deliver pizzas certainly would understand the difference between a small part of England and the entire planet. But apparently you don't. So I've decided to demote you from delivering pizzas to digging post holes.<br /><br />The fact that deniers are still trotting out that old Lamb central England temperature schematic in an attempt to attack Mann's *global* temperature reconstruction work, in spite of the fact that it is very well understood that Lamb's schematic was in now way intended to be representative of global temperatures, shows how utterly pathetic they are. Attempting to engage them seriously is an utter waste of time and effort; what is called for now is open ridicule and mockery.<br /><br />--caerbannog the anonybunny (who forgot to sign the previous post)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-87802765582162599582011-11-10T20:05:18.278-05:002011-11-10T20:05:18.278-05:00Am sending this to twit Phil Anderson, thanks for ...Am sending this to twit Phil Anderson, thanks for the update.<br /><br />Hal Lewis was a bad citizen and they were delighted to see him go.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16829151452002682271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-32797396637754193682011-11-10T15:05:09.440-05:002011-11-10T15:05:09.440-05:00David :
My bad on the peaceable Oslo side, but di...David :<br /><br />My bad on the peaceable Oslo side, but didn't the RSAS in Stockholm just give the Lit prize to Transtormer?THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-83268664433295026882011-11-10T13:08:58.387-05:002011-11-10T13:08:58.387-05:00Dr. Jay Cadbury, phd.
@Anonymous
Nice 3 point ex...Dr. Jay Cadbury, phd.<br /><br />@Anonymous<br /><br />Nice 3 point explanation, except you left out why H.H. Lamb's graph was wrong and needed to be altered. 0 points will be awarded. That wasn't even a good spin anonymous, you would never be allowed on the price is right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-30540821076975528152011-11-10T10:13:57.154-05:002011-11-10T10:13:57.154-05:00"M&M used tree-ring data to "train&q...<i><br /> "M&M used tree-ring data to "train" their noise-generator"</i><br /><br />M&M had to train their noise-generator?<br /><br />With the Cooler Heads Calibrator?<br /><br />Horatio always just assumed <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kfG8pUItVjU/Sn2LeO4il_I/AAAAAAAAAiA/5Mqf3m4fMg4/s1600-h/ClimateNoise.jpg" rel="nofollow">they were born with that talent.</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-56386052519920083562011-11-10T07:02:19.473-05:002011-11-10T07:02:19.473-05:00I agree, some physicists don't know what they&...<i><br />I agree, some physicists don't know what they're talking about. Please see Michael Mann's fake graph.<br /></i><br /><br />The deniers' favorite arguments against the "hockey stick" are incompetent on multiple levels. <br /><br />Example: "Mann's method makes hockey sticks from random noise".<br /><br />1) When M&M used tree-ring data to "train" their noise-generator, they forgot to subtract out the long-term global-warming signal. Hence the "noise" used to generate "noise hockey-sticks" was strongly contaminated with the global-warming signal (resulting in extremely long correlation times relative to the data length, a big no-no).<br /><br />2) Even so, the "noise" generated in (1) above produced a much flatter eigenvalue spectrum than the one produced by Mann's tree-ring data. This applied whether or not Mann's "short-centering" method was used. A competent analyst would be able to distinguish noise data from tree-ring data in about 5 seconds simply by looking at the respective eigenvalues.<br /><br />3) Mann used the SVD method for data-reduction (i.e. "collapse" lots of tree-ring time-series into just a few singular vectors). Apply the SVD to noise, and you won't get much data reduction. That would be obvious to anyone able to grok (2) above. The very fact that Mann's tree-rings could be distilled down to just a very few singular vectors (short-centering or no) should tell any *competent* analyst that Mann's tree-ring data wasn't just random noise, but contained a real temperature signal.<br /><br />Confusing random noise with tree-ring data is rather like, well, confusing Dr. Jay Cadbury Pizza Home Delivery with a competent data analyst.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-8208144786368298842011-11-09T18:39:20.399-05:002011-11-09T18:39:20.399-05:00Russell --- Literature and Peace prizes are the wh...<b>Russell</b> --- Literature and Peace prizes are the whims of the Norwegians.David B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917182411282836875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-24600584274355807792011-11-09T14:11:48.164-05:002011-11-09T14:11:48.164-05:00Dr. Jay Cadbury, phd.
I agree, some physicists do...Dr. Jay Cadbury, phd.<br /><br />I agree, some physicists don't know what they're talking about. Please see Michael Mann's fake graph. <br /><br />Also, there are a lot of rejectionists here, who either outright distort the historical climate record or deny it's existence. Nice cheap shots behind the computer screen though, Eli.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-3107219972170118072011-11-09T11:54:30.038-05:002011-11-09T11:54:30.038-05:00Next time Chris & Roger come to town, I'll...Next time Chris & Roger come to town, I'll try to borrow Steve Gould's skull tongs from the MCZ and report their cranial volumes.THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-45538460655788026372011-11-09T10:18:00.334-05:002011-11-09T10:18:00.334-05:00Hi Georg,
It's Rabett Run's favorite Evil...Hi Georg,<br /><br />It's Rabett Run's favorite Evil Fizicalist John. . .:) Eli, of course, is not evil, although <a href="http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">opinions differ</a>EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-73803777824948796272011-11-09T08:20:18.537-05:002011-11-09T08:20:18.537-05:00Sorry, I meant Josephson of course.Sorry, I meant Josephson of course.Georg Hoffmannhttp://www.scienceblogs.de/primaklima/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-41581347211470321772011-11-09T08:18:01.327-05:002011-11-09T08:18:01.327-05:00Dear Rabbit
who is that on the picture? It's ...Dear Rabbit<br /><br />who is that on the picture? It's certainly not Steve Sherwood who I know from a couple of confs but it's also not Julian Schwinger, Giaever or Johanson. Puzzled<br /><br />Cheers GeorgGeorg Hoffmannhttp://www.scienceblogs.de/primaklima/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-40966757290365985692011-11-09T01:37:37.819-05:002011-11-09T01:37:37.819-05:00Strike that -I meant knife, with Fo providing fork...Strike that -I meant knife, with Fo providing fork side symmetry.THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-56028454974106417892011-11-09T01:27:56.576-05:002011-11-09T01:27:56.576-05:00Claudel was farther to the right than a fish fork,...Claudel was farther to the right than a fish fork, but nobody ever accused <i>him</i> of "jingoistic cant" -- his WWII victory ode may have inspired Auden's 1949 Harvard ΠΒΚ exercise, ‘Under Which Lyre: A Reactionary Tract for the Times’. I said poems, not books, as I would no more slight Kipling's juvenalia than Walt Disney's <br /><br />If cant has become the literary ground state of the Nobel Peace Prize, Stockholm deserves blame for unpardonably rewarding bad PC prose - Fo ain't exactly Eco, is he ?<br /><br />Where are the Literature and Peace Ig Nobels?THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-59005075878869547892011-11-08T20:00:19.427-05:002011-11-08T20:00:19.427-05:00Russell, why are you slighting the poems of Rudyar...Russell, why are you slighting the poems of Rudyard Kipling? Hopefully it's merely because you disapprove of his politics. Kipling's poetry isn't on par with Hardy's, but it's far better than its reputation for jingoistic cant. (As for his prose, there aren't many novels better than Kim and Kipling's short stories are top tier, on par with those of Joyce, Hemingway, and Chekhov.)<br /><br />As Auden wrote (though he later omitted this),<br /><br />"Time that with this strange excuse/Pardoned Kipling and his views,/And will pardon Paul Claudel,/Pardons him for writing well"Jeffrey Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-13155602212548599182011-11-08T15:13:43.930-05:002011-11-08T15:13:43.930-05:00It has long been axiomatic that there exists no hy...It has long been axiomatic that there exists no hypothesis so absurd that two Nobel laureates cannot be found to endorse it. <br /><br />Unfortunately, the prizes in Medicine and Literature for the invention of lobotomy and the poems of Rudyard Kipling say something similar about the Prize Committees.THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-57207408005715561802011-11-08T13:29:01.349-05:002011-11-08T13:29:01.349-05:00Sin-Itiro Tomonaga passed away in 1979. (Incidenta...Sin-Itiro Tomonaga passed away in 1979. (Incidentally, this "Sin" has a common meaning with "schwing"). I am not sure what he would respond to Schwinger's enthusiasm on cold fusion if he was still alive.<br /><br />Tomonaga is known to be a thoughtful writer of popular science, though not so prolific as Feynman. In a record of popular lecture posthumously published, Tomonaga recommended not to disturb the universe. He was concerned with the escalation of required energy levels in experimental particle physics, and suggested that there could be more passive ways to understand the universe like geophysicists do. Masatoshi Koshiba, who succeeded in detection of neutrino from a super-nova, mentions Tomonaga's influence to him (though it is just my guess that it is about this aspect).Kooiti Masudahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15709237727441869109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-13725791061161536432011-11-08T12:24:39.309-05:002011-11-08T12:24:39.309-05:00Ironically enough, Irving Langmuir's over-conf...Ironically enough, Irving Langmuir's over-confidence about effect and harmlessness of cloud seeding was just what he logically should call "pathological science", according to James Rodger Fleming in his book "Fixing the Sky" http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14412-4/fixing-the-sky .Kooiti Masudahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15709237727441869109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-40427025419498116842011-11-08T11:50:26.646-05:002011-11-08T11:50:26.646-05:00"Having a Nobel prize is a great advantage wh...<i><br />"Having a Nobel prize is a great advantage when moving into a new area. ...it is a great door opener." I.e., Nobel laureates can usually get appointments with busy people. :-)<br /></i><br /><br />Reminds me of a "tabloid tv" interview that I saw with Kerry Mullis a number of years ago. The tv spokescritter asked Mullis if his Nobel prize had opened any doors for him.<br /><br />His response (full Beavis and Butthead mode here): "Yeah -- a lot of *apartment* doors -- huh huh huhhuhhuh huh huh...".<br /><br />Mullis is another one of those wacky Nobel laureates who wandered off into "lala land", with his HIV denial and whatnot...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com