Reviews for Meandering in medical physics

The average rating for Meandering in medical physics based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-12-30 00:00:00 Tom Jones From The Reference Frame: "As we have mentioned, Sean Carroll began to understand that the previous 40 years of his thinking about the arrow of time had been plagued by elementary, childish mistakes. In his very recent text "Have a Thermodynamically Consistent Christmas," he announced that he finally understood that subsystems with opposite arrows of time cannot co-exist and interact in the same Universe, i.e. that the arrow of time is and must be universal. That was a pretty radical departure from his previous writings that included "pearls" such as "Incompatible Arrows I..IV," "The Arrow of Time," "Latest Declamations about the Arrow of Time" and dozens of similarly dumb articles - including bizarre fairy-tales about the Boltzmann Brains - that he has written over the years. In all these texts, Carroll had promoted the absurd opinion that incompatible arrows of time are a priori allowed to co-exist and the origin of the second law of thermodynamics lies in cosmology (wrong), and not in statistical physics (correct). In the newest article at Cosmic Variance, "Richard Feynman on Boltzmann Brains," Carroll mentions Feynman's attitude to the problem. Feynman thought the same thing about these issues as every sufficiently intelligent and independently-thinking person does after having looked into the problem at least for a few days..." looks like good times! Heh, Motl also quotes this classic Feynman: "I am not getting anything out of the meeting. I am learning nothing. Because there are no experiments, this field is not an active one, so few of the best men are doing work in it. The result is that there are hosts of dopes here (126) and it is not good for my blood pressure. Remind me not to come to any more gravity conferences!"

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-12 00:00:00 Christine Marini Wendy Doniger does it again, with more brilliant analysis, comparing Hindu Gods to superheroes.