Freedom of Science

Wikipedia has a nice Cavendish experiment page. There is a reference to a scale drawing of the pendulum. They raised the floor to give Cavendish enough room to make observations. As seen from the section drawing the telescope is too low and it would have been very uncomfortable to make observations.

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A Black Swan is an outlier that has a big impact that can be rationalized afterwards. Doctors of Philosophy will tell you first that a black swan will never exist because their theories won’t allow it. When a black swan is observed the same Doctors of Philosophy will tell you that their theories always predicted […]

I started the Freedom of Science blog to free science from the hereditary monopoly of professional physicists. The task is the same as trying to free justice from the hereditary monopoly of another group of corrupt professionals, the lawyers. The relation of lawyers to justice is the same as the relation of physicists to science.
Lawyers […]

Physicist appears to refer to someone who studies nature. Because Doctors of Philosophy named nature physics and themselves physicists. When you use the word physicist you are referring whether you want it or not to a scientist who studies nature. A physicist does not study nature. A physicist is in the business of defining languages […]

Doctor of Philosophy Sabine Hossenfelder declares that “peer review is an essential ingredient of science.”
I say that peer review is not an essential ingredient of science.
Peer review is a self-regulation rule invented by Doctors of Philosophy themselves to regulate their professional corruption so that they don’t cheat each other by publishing crap.
Doctors doctor, so they […]

I wrote that the meaning we ascribe to a statement is dependent on our knowledge of its author. Here’s a further proof of this assertion. I took two random answers from The Edge Annual Question — 2008 and let Britney Spears and Paris Hilton tell them to us. Here’s the transcript of their conversation:
Britney Spears
As […]

I’m trying to give them a sense of history a wee bit deeper than the usual “People stupidly believed Aristotle until the Renaissance; then Galileo Kepler and Newton straightened everything out.”

This is great news for physics. Will it eventually happen that physicists will start questioning Newtonian propaganda as well?
It will happen eventually but not in […]

Yes: I read Newton’s Principia and understood it
No: I did not read Newton’s Principia
Yes: Even though I did not read Newton’s Principia I believe that it is the greatest book ever written.
Yes: In his Principia Newton discovered the universal law of gravity.
Yes: I believe that Newton discovered the universal law of gravity and explained it […]

In the reconstruction after the Great Fire, Hooke proposed redesigning London’s streets on a grid pattern with wide boulevards and arteries (a pattern subsequently used in the renovation of Paris, Liverpool and many American cities), [first used in the antiquity in Priene] but was prevented by problems over property rights. Many property owners were surreptitiously […]

Nature as romantic allegory by Goethe:
She is complete, but never finished. As she works now, so can she always work. Everyone sees her in his own fashion. She hides under a thousand names and phrases, and is always the same.

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