Comment on References: [1] out of his ass

• Brummbaer@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A PhD is not a “get out of Jail” card for kookery.

  He is definitely part of the “woo” people in his field.

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  • dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I read a book of his once about theoretical ways to make sci-fi technology a reality. It was interesting in a hard sci-fi kind of way, but what really annoyed me was that he kept presenting his ideas as how they would work rather than how they could work.

    Just looking at what people 100 years ago thought life would be like today should be a good indication that while theorizing about the future is interesting and a good way to get ideas moving, future technology is never going to be exactly what you think it will. If we knew exactly how this stuff would work, we wouldn’t be imagining it, we’d just make it.

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  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How so?

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    • Brummbaer@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      He has been on Coast to Coast AM he has been on Joe Rogan and other scientists in his and other fielda are often not happy with his outreach.

      For example

      profmattstrassler.com/…/why-professor-kaku-why/

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      • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Thanks! Very helpful. Maybe he is a cook, or values his celebrity over his science. Wouldn’t be the first sellout.

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  • roundup5381@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    well thats disappointing, I just bought one of his books in an attempt to understand quantum better

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      String theory is a dead theory. Don’t waste your time on it.

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• Korval@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You can be both credentialed and a kook, can’t you? I remember him from his regular guest appearances on Art Bell’s radio show.

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  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can be? Sure. But is he? No.

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• okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He has a PhD in theoretical physics, not a theoretical PhD in physics.

  lol, I just rolled through HELIOS One on this current play through of F:NV

  fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fantastic#%3A~%3Atext=the…

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• wholookshere@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There are plenty of crazies who have their PhD in some branch of physics/math. One of the reasons I stopped at a bachelor’s in physics.

  Its almost a prerequisite. But from what I’ve read of him in the past, he’s pretty far out there.

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• ZeroHora@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I remember from a podcast with a guy in the same area of Kaku saying that he’s not seem with good eyes in their community for saying things that doesn’t make much sense.

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  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s a tad vague. Who said the quote?

    “Never shall two scientists of the same trade meet, but the conversation ends in a fight over semantics and one-upmanship.”

    It was probably me, but I’m paraphrasing here.

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