What has driven these poor fellows to win the crazy prize once again is the maddening problem of infinity--of both time and space. Starting from baseless assumptions, they invent a rigid, highly intricate superstructure of rules, then extrapolate out to the infinitely possible. It reminds me of scholasticism. Calculating probabilities about a universe whose size and nature you do not understand? What? They're trying to put the cart before the horse, when they have no cart. Or horse.
Amusing, though, from a certain viewpoint.
Amusing, though, from a certain viewpoint.
Fortunately, in science, accidents are notorious ambushers--in theory the cosmologist-metaphysicians may yet be ambushed by a useful accident. But, accidents only happen if one takes the risk of experiments, and these fellows are too clever to stoop to mere experimentation. Their only risk gathers itself from the unlimited competition summoned by a system of "science" that erects no barriers to entry. Then the question becomes, on what basis do theories overcome the competition? Aesthetics? Propaganda? Temporal priority? Fortunately, the losers can always invent another mad scheme.
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