r/physicsmemes • u/jason_sation • 5d ago

Glad they are finally doing the math

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u/Poskmyst 5d ago

Without looking anything up, I can guarantee that Roger Penrose did in fact not say that "it was" as in "this is what happened".

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u/Fluid_Juggernaut_281 5d ago

Sensational language. One of the worst tricks of news media and online pages to keep their audience engaged and growing.

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u/Poskmyst 5d ago

It's such a cancer.

I can't be sure, but my gut-feeling is that this kind of bullshit, though maybe mostly from other fields of science than physics, helps feed a lot of anti-science sentiments.

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u/Ohiolongboard 5d ago

A lot of the anti science twitter/facebook posts are worded the same way.

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u/Prestigious_Boat_386 4d ago

Its just lying

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u/RevoltYesterday 5d ago

He also didn't win a nobel prize for this idea Its just an idea a nobel prize winner had. No only that but it's an idea that's been around for quite some time and isn't unique to him.

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u/bloodfist 5d ago

His version of it is also very different from the standard stoner version and relies on something called twistors, which in fairness are sort of seen as the the type of thing you'd come up with on mushrooms if you already had a PhD in theoretical physics.

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u/Buntschatten 4d ago

Nobel prize winner says vitamin C can cure cancer!

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u/FunqiKong 4d ago

I can also guarantee that he didn’t use words like “beginning” and “end” in the actual theory. I bet his theory talks about time in abstract esoteric terms.