The Problem with Stenger (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Friday, December 04, 2009, 17:21 (5449 days ago) @ David Turell

This seems to me to be an unworthy ad hominem attack by DT. I'm sure Stenger is better qualified than any of us here to write about cosmology.-In the "About the Author" page at the end of "The Comprehensible Cosmos" it states that: -"Professor Stenger's research career spanned the period of great progress in elementary particle physics that ultimately led to the current standard model. He participated in experiments that helped establish the properties of strange particles, quarks, gluons, and neutrinos. He also helped pioneer the emerging fields of very high-energy gamma ray and neutrino astronomy. In his last project before retiring, Professor Stenger collaborated on an experiment in Japan, which showed for the first time that the neutrino has mass."-At the end of "Quantum Gods" in a section headed "Not Mainstream" he writes in answer to criticism:-"I need to comment of the reception of the notion that the laws of physics follow from point-of-view invariance. Critics point out that this is not an accepted principle within mainstream physics. While this is true, it has not been rejected either. Nothing I have said conflicts with existing physics. No one has pointed to a single error in the mathematics presented in The Comprehensible Cosmos. All I have done is give an unconventional philosophical interpretation to otherwise well-established theory."

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GPJ