December 14, 2009
#675: Revolutionary
Person: Yes, science is an open process in which a good idea can come from anybody.
Person: Yes, widely-believed theories are
on occasion
overturned by simple thought experiments.
Person: And yes, your philosophy degree equips you to ask interesting questions sometimes.
[[The person is talking to a philosopher with a goatee, who is sitting at a computer.]]
Person: But you did not just overturn special relativity, a subject you learned about an hour ago, with your “racecar on a train” idea.
Philosopher: You just don’t like that I’m turning a rational eye to your dogma. Hey, what’s the email for the president of physics?