I just e-mailed Stephen Hawking. What I said is below.
Yours, Rus
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Dear Stephen Hawking,
Hope this e-mail finds you well.
Your name has come up in the blogosphere, prompting this note to you, specifically regarding Bryan Appleyard's post here:
"Hawking to Join the FIS?" http://www.bryanappleyard.com/blog/2006/12/hawking-to-join-fis.php
FIS, being the Failed Intellectuals Society. In that post, he says this:
This is profoundly irrational since he would have to believe that all theories except the final one could be encompassed by his instrumentalism. The final one, to be genuinely final, had to be different - ie true. This glaring contradiction cannot be wished or calculated away by scornful physicists. It is an intellectual error, simple as that. Hawking, should he wish to apply, would be welcomed into the ranks of the Failed Intellectuals Society.
I thought you should get word, maybe you'd like to join, either FIS, or the conversation.
Frank Wilson, books review editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, has picked up the conversation, most recently here: http://booksinq.blogspot.com/2006/12/but-first_08.html
. . . but in other of his posts as well: http://booksinq.blogspot.com/2006/12/let-us-all-come-to-order.html http://booksinq.blogspot.com/2006/12/hear-ye-hear-ye.html http://www.bryanappleyard.com/blog/2006/12/historic-moment-birth-of-fis.php
Yours, Rus Bowden
Poetry & Poets in Rags http://poetryandpoetsinrags.blogspot.com/
Hi Frank,
ReplyDeleteI just e-mailed Stephen Hawking. What I said is below.
Yours,
Rus
~~~~~
Dear Stephen Hawking,
Hope this e-mail finds you well.
Your name has come up in the blogosphere, prompting this note to you, specifically regarding Bryan Appleyard's post here:
"Hawking to Join the FIS?"
http://www.bryanappleyard.com/blog/2006/12/hawking-to-join-fis.php
FIS, being the Failed Intellectuals Society. In that post, he says this:
This is profoundly irrational since he would have to believe that all theories except the final one could be encompassed by his instrumentalism. The final one, to be genuinely final, had to be different - ie true. This glaring contradiction cannot be wished or calculated away by scornful physicists. It is an intellectual error, simple as that. Hawking, should he wish to apply, would be welcomed into the ranks of the Failed Intellectuals Society.
I thought you should get word, maybe you'd like to join, either FIS, or the conversation.
Frank Wilson, books review editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, has picked up the conversation, most recently here:
http://booksinq.blogspot.com/2006/12/but-first_08.html
. . . but in other of his posts as well:
http://booksinq.blogspot.com/2006/12/let-us-all-come-to-order.html
http://booksinq.blogspot.com/2006/12/hear-ye-hear-ye.html
http://www.bryanappleyard.com/blog/2006/12/historic-moment-birth-of-fis.php
Yours,
Rus Bowden
Poetry & Poets in Rags
http://poetryandpoetsinrags.blogspot.com/
Way to go, Rus! I hope he joins. It would strike a blow for humor everywhere.
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