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At Theorema Egregium nc quoted Imre Lakatos:
Scientists … do not abandon a theory merely because facts contradict it. They normally either invent some rescue hypothesis to explain what they then call a mere anomaly or, if they cannot explain the anomaly, they ignore it….
I would change “scientists” to “physicists” because this is a trick physicists, […]

This image1 is a good analogy of physicists’ understanding of constitution of matter:

Here’s a collider where two fluids collide and form new forms of the same fluid.
Physicists too let fluid collide with fluid and observe “ultimate fundamental and indivisible constituents of matter” in the resulting fluid.

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Scott McNealy asks
why is California paying some $400 million annually to update K-12 textbooks?
The answer is
to perpetuate the state religion called Newtonism.
There is perfect synergy between governments and the Big Media. Neither the Big Media nor the state has the benefit of the students in mind. Both aim to increase their profits by selling textbooks that […]

Christine Dantas asks: Is there more to gravity than gravitons? What prompted her question was T. Padmanabhan’s From Gravitons to Gravity: Myths and Reality.
She wonders if the issues raised by Padmanabhan are indeed correct and if so, how would they be interpreted in string theory.
Padmanabhan writes:
There is a general belief, reinforced by statements in standard textbooks, […]

In this article called “How the LHC came to be,” Chris Llewellyn Smith proudly details the obscene bureaucratic ways of the Europeans. It seems that Europeans did not make any progress in their understanding of science since the Middle Ages. Europeans still negotiate the last penny they could extract from their traditional enemies for their […]

George Gamow wrote1 that Henry Cavendish
demonstrated the proof [of the existence of the Newtonian force] beyond argument.
What kind of evidence does Gamow have to declare so authoritatively that Cavendish proved the existence of the Newtonian force “beyond argument?”
Just like Feynman, Gamow’s source is physics textbooks. We know that physics textbooks are canonized physics mythology.
What I found […]

In his Lectures on Physics Richard Feynman wrote that Cavendish measured the Newtonian force for the first time. I don’t have that book handy but a search in Google Books revealed Feynman’s The Character of Physical Law where he repeats the same claim and he even uses the same graphic for the experiment.
Feynman starts with […]

I compared physics to tax code. There was an objection to that. Physics is not like the tax code. Ok. If physics is not like the tax code what is it like?
What kind of objects is physics made of?
I see two different kinds of objects in physics:
1. Strings
2. Magnitudes
String objects include:

Definitions

Principles
Axioms
Labels
Placeholders

Commentary

Polemics
Philosophy
Argument by authority
Opinion
Speculations
Scenarios
Press releases

Most of […]

There is a very nice discussion going on at Physics Forum regarding the Cavendish Experiment. I wrote about the two tests that I want to try here and I really appreciate the thoughtful comments at Physics Forums.
I am arguing that the linear force of the wire cannot balance the dynamic Newtonian force which varies as […]