Luckily the scientists will not mind foolish questions for a few reasons. First of all, they are used to thinking of themselves as pretty smart and the people questioning them as, umm, not so smart.
— Dennis Overbye, answering questions in a wide-ranging New York Times “Talk to the Newsroom” feature.
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The only stupid questions are the ones that go un-asked.
I like getting questions from non-physicists. It’s usually a challenge to explain physical ideas clearly. You have to avoid nasty jargon, etc. It forces you to rethink a problem and this usually takes you to the core of physical problems. In that sense the questions from non-physicists are much more important to me.
There are no stupid questions. Only stupid people asking them.
Oddly ironic choice of quotes there, Dr. ‘Ask Me Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask’. 😉
By the way, when are you going to give us ‘umm, not so smart’ people the answers to our ‘foolish’ questions? Oh, but you weren’t talking about us, right? 😉 You were protesting Overbye’s characterization of scientists, right? Yeah, yeah, that’s it…
A mathematical why of the Big Bang
Outline
Let Ui be a set of locations of particles of the universe.
U1xU2x …… xUix ….. a set of infinite paths
(Cartesian product of sets of urelements).
this set is equal to the void set by the
negation of the axiom of choice.
So there is no more space containing the particles.
The particles collapse on themselves: Big Crunch.
Then Big Bang.
The Big Bang has taken place thus the negation of the axiom
of choice is likely to be considered as a good axiom.
Adib Ben Jebara.