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62 CHAPTER 11. THE FALL OF SCIENCE
• Einstein’s equations of general relativity, so deep that they are beyond
human understanding.
Of course a modern physicist will vigorously deny that this is mysticism,
and in the next moment turn the discussion to wave-particle duality, complementarity,
11-dimensional string theory, mutiverses, dark matter and energy,
all without connection to mysticism.
11.8 Modern Physics and Climate Alarmism
Recall that the climate alarmism of our time is rooted in an idea about a mystical
form of ”backradiation” threatening humanity with ”global warming”,
all based on a misinterpretation of a formula by Planck based on statistics
of energy quanta.
Recall also that those responsible (Boltzmann, Planck and Einstein) for
introducing statistics of quanta into physics, never could embrace what they
had done (B took his life, E could not accept that ”God played dice” and
P never gave up his dream of microscopic reality), and so the fruits of their
deed were harvested by the crowd entering the wonderful new world of quantum
mechanics described by the guru of physics Richard Feynman in The
Character of Physical Law (1965):
• I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
To believe in something you don’t understand is mysticism. Or? Today
Feynman would have said:
• I can safely say that no physicist understands the physics of climate
science.