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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Relativity defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:46:19 +0100
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On 2024-12-12 06:08:38 +0000, Thomas Heger said:

> Am Freitag000006, 06.12.2024 um 22:07 schrieb LaurenceClarkCrossen:
>> "The establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the
>> point of incomprehensibility." - Fred Hoyle
>> 
> I had the same impression long ago.
> 
> Many things in physics are simply way to complicated, because I just 
> don't think, that nature needs such complicated rules.

The unwanted comma seems just right there.
> 
> Nature should

Says who? "If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking on 
creation thus, I should have recommended something simpler" (Alfonso X 
of Castile).

>  work on a fundamental level very simple and should therefore require 
> only a few simple rules.
> 
> These fundamental principles should, however, generate a plethora of 
> different patterns, which we find in nature.
> 
> But the building blocks themselves should be few and simple.
> 
> 
> If you (for instance) had found such 'building blocks' (say in the 19th 
> century) and utilized them for your own benefit, you certainly want 
> others to search somewhere else.
> 
> In the meantime you could acquire tremendous wealth and make yourself a 
> member of the establishment (established by your wealth).
> 
> But you need to divert competition into unpromising realms and feed 
> your competitors with unproductive nonsense.
> 
> This should be done 'en masse', because it wouldn't help, if these 
> others would find out of the swamp anytime soon.
> 
> 
>   TH


-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly 
in England until 1987.