Thursday, February 11, 2016

human nature. orderly universe. yawn. it's all nonsense.

guy's stuck in the nineteenth century. burkean conservatism rather than neo-liberalism. that's just level two of your typical christian ignorance - and is just as easily debunked.


we live in a world that is chaotic and unpredictable - defined by imperfect causality, probability distributions and thick error bars. newtonianism has always been a caricature. in four hundred years, all we've really learned about how to solve the n-body problem is that the closer you get, the more bodies you have to add - that the entire idea of an n-body problem is naive.

newton should no longer be taught in high school. sure: it's useful for engineers. but, the broader philosophical ramifications are too problematic.

forget it. leave him in the past with aristotle. start the kids off with modern physics.