Thursday, July 17, 2008

The Intersection of Science, Art, & Bullshit

"Analysis" of the commonalities of post-Einstein physics and philosophy always seems to come from the scientifically unlettered humanists, and never from the physicists... and it shows.

No exception is Joshua Cohen in The Forward:

To the scientist, such tendentious parallels foolishly reduce their model, denigrating the absolution of mathematics while depriving art of joy. But exploring analogies between Einsteinian relativity and the work of contemporaneous artists is a way of both relating an esoteric theory to the layperson and exorcising whatever ineffable power it was that, in the early days of the past century, chose to express itself so similarly in equations, music, paint and words.


Gag me with a spoon.
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