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WARREN’S EPITAPH. “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to fit facts.” Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson, in A Scandal in Bohemia (A.C. Doyle, 1891). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

WITH THE HELP OF FRIENDS. “Warren passed away leaving behind a manuscript of more than 39,000 words, which he judged to be 95 percent complete—with “all the hard parts” done. Colleagues, friends, and family have picked up this legacy and carried it the last steps. The great man’s final paper will be published posthumously in 2019.” https://lnkd.in/dNVjJKA9 View in LinkedIn

RACE AGAINST TIME. “His 2015 paper was the last published before Warren’s death, but it did not mark the end of his writing. Over the next three years and into his final month, he worked toward an even broader synthesis that would represent a culmination of his career: “Toward a myth-free geodynamic history of Earth and its neighbors.” He knew this project was a race against time, but refused to take shortcuts in the painstaking work. Time won that race, just barely.” https://lnkd.in/dNVjJKA9 View in LinkedIn

EPIC HERETICAL GEOLOGY PAPER. “Toward a myth-free geodynamic history of Earth and its neighbors”, by Warren B. Hamilton, is truly a tour de force, a heretical, sweeping and important paper covering a lifetime of geological work. https://lnkd.in/d9NUnzUC View in LinkedIn

The incomparable Surrealist, Dorothea Tanning. " " https://lnkd.in/dmvdu9hP View in LinkedIn

SELECTIVE DATA FITTING. “Nevertheless, there are few relevant dates and selective use of those ambiguous data to fit conflicting models has impeded progress. Buchan (2013) saw only a single continent (northern North America + Greenland) as usefully constrained during the Proterozoic.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

DIFFERENT KNOWING. “That the mind itself has a higher state of existence, beyond reason, a superconscious state, and that when the mind gets to that higher state, then this knowledge beyond reasoning comes.” (William James, Varieties, page 397, 1902) https://lnkd.in/dSyN7rAC View in LinkedIn

FLAWED DOGMA. “At the end of inflation, when the universe is not even 10(−30) seconds old, a new phase of very violent deceleration is supposed to start, leading, about 10(5) years later (virtually an eternity compared to the two previous epochs), to a period where matter, until then mostly irrelevant, manages eventually to become the majority component while radiation as well as dark energy are then totally negligible.” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

STANDARD MODEL FAILINGS. “In particular, there does not exist any precise fundamental theory allowing to understand how one can not only enter but also leave this phase of inflation. A time slightly too long will lead to a virtually empty universe, whereas a time slightly too short will lead to the re-collapse of the universe in a few Planck times (10(−44 0) s).” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

ALL IS FAIR GAME. “It also underlined the improbability of the Standard Model of Cosmology, featuring an extremely brief initial phase of very brutal deceleration, followed by a rather mysterious and very brief repulsive phase of inflation, mostly justified by the need to solve the enigma of the homogeneity of the primordial universe.” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn