Comments by "Roger Scott Cathey" (@rogerscottcathey) on "Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel u0026 Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #45" video.

  1. Very nice. My method of ranking of intelligence of physicists is directly in proportion to their usage of five or six terms as tenets or topics in which they vouchsafe belief: big bang, black holes, gaseous stars, dark matter, dark energy and universality of Kirchhoff's "law". Since these are all specious, based on hypothesis only, they are beliefs only, and not truly based on experiment or established scientific facts. As a careful physicist would not venture them as a means of obtaining probity for other things he may feel as viable or believable or proffer as worthy of investigation, it is better to leave such numinous areas out of conversation. Otherwise, going by popular opinion of the numerous other physicists who wholeheartedly endorse those factors as established, anyone claiming physicist as his trade, has merely established his opinion as the subject of majority rule rather than proven fact. Facts are not candidates for election, they are compulsory realities established by strict tests. Eliminating the impossible, accepting the reality, however improbable. But those six terms belong in the former. Not the latter. And the Achilles heel of them all is with Kirchhoff.
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