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There may be some questions where only higher learnt persons or Noble Prize Winners in Science or Academy of universe Science Academy can answer but it is not answerable from an ordinary person? What is your suggestion?

2007-02-01 22:28:19 · 2 answers · asked by misraop2004 5 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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You do not need to be a Nobel Prize winner to answer a really difficult question. Great Scientists have not been awarded Nobel Prizes. People with ordinary education can answer easily difficult questions, but they do it mostly philosophically. To answer a difficult question scientifically, you need to know the language of the science category the question belongs to -you need to know the terms, the ideas with which you may speak, this is how your answer will be recognized as scientific and valid. People with great education who give answers to difficult questions can do this thing -but they cannot answer difficult questions about topics they know nothing about.

2007-02-03 06:04:00 · answer #1 · answered by supersonic332003 7 · 0 0

Great question. Questions about questions are always interesting. There are lots and lots of things I would love to ask of Noble Prize Winners. Some examples would be:

1. Of Steven Hawking, I would ask "What do you really think about information escaping from black holes?" He changed his views on this recently and actually paid off a bet he had made with Kip Thorne and admitted he was wrong. I'd like to get the two of them in a room and ask them to talk to me. What fun!

http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/blackhole_bet.html

2. I would also like to ask David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilckzell who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004, what their views are on the possibilities of extra-dimensions. This is a very hot topic in physics right now and there is no consensus. Just would like to run it by the experts.

3. I would love to ask Bernard J. Carr, a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL), why he is so interested in the paranormal. He has done some really interesting work, including self-similarity in general relativity, primordial black holes, and the anthropic principle.But his interests outside physics, including the paranormal, are a mystery to me.

4. Finally, I'd like to get George F. Smoot and Mather, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 in a room and ask them how they think that the universe really came into being. Their research into blackbody and anisotrophy microwave background raditation might ultimately answer the questions "HOW DID THE UNIVERSE BEGIN?" "HOW DID LIFE COME TO BE?"

http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/10/03/nobel-prize-to-mather-and-smoot-for-cmb-anisotropies/

Thanks for asking the queston. I hadn't really thought all of this out before.

2007-02-07 20:33:40 · answer #2 · answered by Jordan B 2 · 0 0

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