{"id":587,"date":"2007-08-20T23:18:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T04:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=587"},"modified":"2007-09-15T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T15:46:13","slug":"the-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"The Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blah, blah, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0708.2367\">more<\/a> anthropic pseudo-science on hep-th, blah, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0708.0573\">blah<\/a>, blah,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn the basis of a static support condition depending on the tensile strength of flesh rather than bone, it is reasoned here that our size should be subject to a limit inversely proportional to the terrestrial gravitation field g, which is itself found to be proportional (with a factor given by the 5\/2 power of the fine structure constant) to the gravitational coupling constant. The upshot, via the (strong) anthropic principle, is that the need for big brains may be what explains the weakness of gravity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>blah, blah, blah, this pseudo-science is on hep-th because of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/the_multiverse_an_apology.php\">blah<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/the_lay_of_the_landscape.php\">blah<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/twisty_little_universes_all_al.php\">blah<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blah, blah, blah written for Templeton-funded conference, blah, blah, <a href=\"http:\/\/sr21.physics.auth.gr\/index.html\">Science-Religion Interaction in the 21st Century<\/a>.  Usual blah, blah, turn science into religion, blah, blah <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transscientia.de\/en\/home\/projects.html\">Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Science, Philosophy and Religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the repetitive nature of some recent postings.  I can&#8217;t even stand to write them any more, but still think someone should be documenting the descent of particle theory into pseudo-science and complaining about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blah, blah, more anthropic pseudo-science on hep-th, blah, blah, blah, On the basis of a static support condition depending on the tensile strength of flesh rather than bone, it is reasoned here that our size should be subject to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}