Dennis Edwall Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Interesting conversation with Freeman Dyson. http://nautil.us/issue/43/heroes/my-life-with-the-physics-dream-team?utm_content=buffera756a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Dennis, I listened to it. I knew nothing about Freeman Dyson before. Now I'm in love with him. I hope to be like that when I get to my 90's. My favorite comment from the interview was about youth. He was asked why only younger people make major breakthroughs in theoretical physics and the interviewer made it a kind of leading question. The answer he wanted was that younger people have more supple minds or something like that. Dyson said it was because younger people are more ignorant. And it makes sense. Younger folks are not set in their ways and are not so committed to certain theories, so they can still think outside the box. I'm going to get some books by this guy. I love the fact that he is pissing off the climate change folks. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Dyson back in 2007. He recorded some of his book "Infinite in all directions" at RFBD (recording for the blind and dyslexic) where I did (and still do ) volunteer work. I chatted with him briefly. He looked very frail but mentally he was razor sharp. If Feynman had lived he would look like Dyson (they were in the same age range). Dyson has some very tart comments about the crop of climate models sponsored by the IPCC. Please see http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2151 His main point is that the climate modelers are not doing science. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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