Moontanman Posted February 17, 2011 Report Posted February 17, 2011 Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages? By John Horgan | Jan 28, 2011 05:50 PM I'm becoming a moralistic prig in my dotage. Someone dear to me just proudly told me that her son, a freshly minted Harvard grad, is training to be an investment banker. This privileged young man, I grumbled, should try to make the world a better place rather than playing in a rigged, high-stakes gambling racket. I apologized later—and vowed privately to be less self-righteous in my judgments of others' career choices. After all, I ain't exactly Gandhi. But then I read Brian Greene's new book, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Knopf, 2011), and my moral hackles got all quivery again. (Weird coincidence alert: In 2006, the publisher RiskDoctor, Inc., released a book titled Options Trading: The Hidden Reality.) A physicist at Columbia University, Greene is an immensely talented science explicator who has brought physics to the masses through his smart, witty bestsellers, The Elegant Universe (turned into a television series narrated by Greene) and The Fabric of the Cosmos. http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=is-speculation-in-multiverses-as-im-2011-01-28&WT.mc_id=SA_SA_20110216 Quote
joekgamer Posted February 17, 2011 Report Posted February 17, 2011 Financial speculation and academic speculation are two totally different concepts. Moontanman 1 Quote
LaurieAG Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 Hi Moontanman, Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages? There are a couple of good reasons. While some people may think that black holes are portals to other universes in reality they are just exceedingly dense pricks, and the same goes for the masters of our global financial universe or the people who propogate this nonsense. I don't think you can even make an educated guess on this matter if you only have theoretical/practical experience of the science side of the equation. The first 'company' that I saw propogating/speculating on multiverses appeared just after the US enacted a law to deliberately spread false science. This was the same time that US citizens were being persuaded to get fully behind the invasion and occupation of Iraq based on misinformation. The law was knocked on the head a year later but nobody ever did say what bullshit was spread during that period. Quote
joekgamer Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 The first 'company' that I saw propogating/speculating on multiverses How did this company speculate on multiverses? It seems impossible. the US enacted a law to deliberately spread false science. What law was this? Quote
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