Timeline for Advisor getting involved in semi-pseudoscience
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| Jan 11, 2023 at 19:21 | comment | added | Michael Kay | @Voo I'm reminded of a quote from Prof A. B. Pippard who defined physics as "everything in science that we fully understand". | |
| Jan 11, 2023 at 19:17 | comment | added | Michael Kay | And more recently a successor of Isaac Newton's at Trinity, Cambridge, namely Prof. Brian Josephson, has devoted most of his life since winning his Nobel Prize in physics to a study of the relationship of mind and matter that has taken him well into the realms of what most people consider quackery. But how do you know it's quackery if you don't study it properly? | |
| Jan 11, 2023 at 13:10 | comment | added | fedja | @Voo I would add "after some period of time" to your sentence, but otherwise I agree :-). | |
| Jan 11, 2023 at 9:51 | comment | added | Voo | "some alternative medicine does work". Well as the saying goes any alternative medicine that works is just called medicine. | |
| Jan 10, 2023 at 11:13 | comment | added | nick012000 | @EarlGrey Sure, but that won't let you refine your soul into something like God. Alchemy had spiritual aspects as well as the physical ones. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 6:18 | comment | added | EarlGrey | Side norte: we even have the final solutions to alchemy, it is possible to transform everything into gold. You just need an extreme amount of energy, but in principle we can reassemble neutrons and protons and electrons ;) So in a sense Newton the physicist was just laying the foundation to solve the alchemy problem he was investigating and alchemy is a consequent problem to understanding physics. | |
| Jan 9, 2023 at 2:30 | history | answered | fedja | CC BY-SA 4.0 |