Luboš Motl quotes

Whether you like it or not, alcohol helps to create emotional links between humans, too. (Luboš Motl)

Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt to help them.

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In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how my grandfather used to remember me. Around 1981, I became a pro-capitalist person and it stuck.

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Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.

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I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but e. g. to 2,500 similar nuts who would be moreover described by the media as good scientists, if not the best ones in the world.;-) Good for him that he managed to die in time.

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Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

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According to polls, a majority (around 60+ percent) opposes the radar base. But it's not necessarily the sensible part of the Czech population. The demonstrations against the base are usually organized by communists, Islamists, and "peaceful feminists" (which is fortunately not a numerous group).

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Weinberg says that "we want to know what's happening out there". But this is just the standard anti-quantum zealots' misunderstanding of the essence of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics says that all knowable things about the physical system must be obtained through a measurement whose outcomes are predicted via the Born rule. There is nothing else happening out there, at least nothing else knowable that is happening out there! So quantum mechanics does answer the question what is happening out there and the claim that quantum mechanics is incomplete in this sense is simply a lie.

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The actual heart of quantum mechanics is that the objects in its equations are connected to the observations very differently than the classical counterparts have been.

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Why don't you invest all of your money to Rossi's breakthrough yourself? And all of your fellow believers? If it "happens" that nothing will ever come out of it, at least you will help to increase the mankind's IQ by dying of hunger.

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Because the white genes are mutations of the genes of the original men of color - and males are mutations of the original females - we can finally answer the question "Is God black?" The answer is "Yes, She is." (Luboš Motl)

Some extreme optimists argue that North Koreans won't know how to mount the bombs on their missiles. Maybe, they have completed the H-bomb but haven't invented the screwdrivers and ropes yet.

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That should answer your question. I don't have to respond to every cretin, do I? I am already responding to most of them.

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... quantum mechanics is a complete, unified, coherent, and mathematically super-elegant scheme for providing us with (probabilistic) answers to all questions that seem to have any empirical sense.

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