The mysticism that has found its way into theoretical physics
has become paired up with a diligent atheism; it's become a
strange marriage but it makes sense.* Shakespeare once said,
"methinks you doth protest too much"; in other words, the more
someone desperately tries to say something is false, the more
likely it's probably true.* Or... rather, they're spending as
much time trying to convince themselves as they are trying to
convince others. I'd like to see a more sober theoretical
physics, with a little less mysticism, a little less activism, a
little less politics - and a bit more imagination.* You're
right; hope-faith-fantasy.* I get the sense you've found this
phenomenon annoying longer than I.* I just started noticing the
trend about two years ago and once you see it, it's hard to
ignore it. Before that, I was all wrapped up in it too.
