Freedom of Science

It no longer matters where the information is stored. In times when information was expensive the monopoly controlling the production and distribution defined the container of information as a brand and endowed it with authority to increase the value of the brand. This, in turned, defined the value of the information. This is still true […]

How come humans who pride themselves to be so intelligent are ruled by unhuman organisms? Since the dawn of history the rulers have been ruling by establishing a knowledge divide between themselves and the ruled. The knowledge divide is dug and maintained by a professional class called scribes in the service of the ruler. The […]

Would the evidence for Big Bang stand in a court of law? Not in the court of physics but in a court of law? Since physicists are judge, jury and the accused, an evaluation of mythologies of their own creation will necessarily be biased, to say the least. Physicists cannot evaluate scientifically their own theories […]

The currency of academic physics is authority.1 Everything in physics is bought and sold with authority. This includes experiments. There is no experiment that a professional physicist cannot buy with enough expenditure of authority. Experiment sounds like a scientific process but in physics experiment is a definition made with a gadget and therefore it is another […]

What do we get if we try to separate mathematics from physics? This is another comment on John Baez’ statement about the difficulty of doing physics without math. The implicit assumption here is that physics and mathematics exist as two distinct things and they can be separated.  But physics and mathematics cannot be separated without […]

I was wrong to say that John Baez did not have a definition of fundamental. I just found this paper where he writes:
By fundamental physics, I mean the search for a small set of laws which in principle determine everything we can calculate about the universe.
Fundamental physics
Obviously this is not a definition of fundamental; it […]