Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The new dogma.

If you say to someone "I like science" then they often respond "yeah.. Me too"

If you say "I'm really keen on theoretical physics" then people say " ohh-kaay.. Hmm, interesting, you mean like atoms and shit?"

If you say "I have developed a serious and plausible contender to both string-theory and the standard model and what's more I can make it work right back as far as the precise moment of the big-bang and explain why gravity cannot be unified with electromagnetism and explain the physical mechanism behind momentum and inertia and I know where Einstein went wrong" people's ears clang shut, they put their hands over their ears and they shout LALALALALA. Really loudly.