Scientists Are Embarrassed By Science Fiction; They

Physics Is Often Stranger Than Science Fiction, And I Think Science Fiction Takes Its Cues From Physics: Higher Dimensions, Wormholes, The Warping Of Space And Time, Stuff Like That.

They Basically Ask Their Engineers To Volunteer Some Probability Figures, Then They Take The Average. This Is Not Science. This Is Voodoo.

Well, Congress Gave Us A Billion Dollars To Dig The Hole, This Gigantic Hole. Bigger, Much Bigger Than The Hole In Geneva, Switzerland. Then They Canceled The Machine And Gave Us A Second Billion Dollars To Fill Up The Hole. Two Billion Dollars To Dig A Hole And Fill It Up. That Is The Wisdom Of The United States Congress And It Really Makes You Wonder: Is There Intelligent Life On The Earth? Certainly Not In The United States Congress.

One Problem With Politics Is That It Is A Zero Sum Game, I.e. Politicians Argue How To Cut The Pie Smaller And Smaller, By Reshuffling Pieces Of The Pie. I Think This Is Destructive. Instead, We Should Be Creating A Bigger Pie, I.e. Funding The Science That Is The Source Of All Our Prosperity. Science Is Not A Zero Sum Game.

We Need An Enduring, Robust Theory Of Education. Now, It Seems Education Careens From One Fad To Another And Often Back Again. I Think That With Better Education And Students Willing To Put In The 10,000-hours To Become Expert, We Could Develop Better Science Professionals, Even Theoretical Physicists.