This is not a joke, I write about two friends, and two scientists I greatly admire. They are Bogdan Mielnik, David Deutsch, Mendieta and Roger Penrose.
Maybe Deutsch is not Jewish, he was born in Haifa, so surely somebody in his family is. My friend Bogdan was born in Poland, and even though he spends time in Mexico, he doesn't seem like somebody I will consider Catholic. Mendieta is Mexican, but does not strike me as very Catholic. Finally Penrose was born in England, and I don't have a clue about his religious beliefs. I just thought the title will be catchy. They are all very smart, though. That is why I bring them to this blog note.
Bogdan is the only person from Mexico that is quoted in Penrose's "Road to Reality" book; besides I remember a talk he gave that inspired me, he used fiction works to explain Modern Physics, in particular he pointed out that H.G. Wells, came up with the idea of four dimensional space-time, before Einstein and Minkowski did.
Mendieta is researching Fractal Geometry, for a PhD degree in Mathematics Education. He has written science fiction stories also.
I am reading "The Beginning of Infinity", by Deutsch. He uses fiction to explain his worldview. Finally I just bought "Cycles of Time" by Penrose. I know that he brings, in this book, to the general public, his idea that there have been more than one Big Bang events.
My interest is to bring Information Theory to its place inside of the Framework of Theoretical Physics.
Deutsch is trying to convince us that Everett's Many World Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is a good framework, so he delves into the multiverse.
All I want to know is what role does curve fitting play, in Theoretical Physics. Maybe the Universe is a Computer, maybe there are Equations somewhere in the sky waiting for us to find them. Be it is as it may, all I want to know is if a generalized data fitting algorithm, is enough of a guide to find the best descriptions of Reality.
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