Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram

[Cyparagon]

I just said something too open hearted and honest not to be attacked for it.

It's not merely sharing your opinion that's the problem. It's asserting you are right and everyone else is wrong, and providing no evidence. And on top of that, playing the victim when you're met with criticism.

To me, it is more important to be kind to one another than to be right, in the long run, if we are wrong about something show one another your viewpoint, just maybe, possibly, there is just a misunderstanding instead of someone being wrong

This is a valid point. You typically change more minds with amiability. But a true scientist will value an argument based on its merit, NOT on the specifics of how it is presented, nor on who presented it.

 

[xirrious]

Thanks Marco, I get pissed and actually take it personally when folks attack theories based on a misconception of the definition rather than the merits of the theory itself. Bottom line everywhere here I believe is missing the most important point, which is any physical theory is simply part of a conceptual paradigm for comprehending something we do not fully understand. No one has ever said these theories, including Susskinds holographic universe, need be taken so literally ... arguing their validity, or "trueness" to me is a moot point, more important is their functionality and congruence with experimental observations.

 

[xirrious]

I happened to read all of Susskinds books rather than watch a YouTube e video. This theory was born out of a desire to explain hawking radiation, and an apparent paradox occurring having to do with Stephen Hawking believing black holes deleted information from the universe. This in effect lowers the universes total entropy, and thus violated I believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Susskinds disagreed and this theory was the result of a very long acedemic battle between the two.. it's only meant to help describe an idea. The idea we live inside The Matrix was a whimsical far fetched extrapolation. Lol, literally