Freedom of Science

1. F=ma
Physicists start their derivation with

This statement may be meaningful to physicists but the truth is that all three terms, F, m and a, disappear during the derivation. None of these Newtonian terms enter the formula used to compute orbits. From this observation we must conclude that F, m and a are not quantities that […]

From Dreams of Calculus - Perspectives on Mathematics Education:1
Classical Greek or Latin formed an important part of secondary education only 50 years ago, with motivations similar to those currently used for mathematics: studies in these subjects would help develop logical thinking and problem solving skills. Today, very few students take Greek and Latin with […]

The ignorance or willing negligence of data types allows physicists to write absurd statements such as

Physicists are very proud of the logo of the House of Newton but what does it mean to multiply two masses?
It is

absurd

physical

Type Newton
In the multiplication

both M and m are type Newton. Yesterday we saw that little m, […]

I’ve been trying to decipher the data types of F, m and a in physicists’ expression F=ma. I still do not know for certain. I believe the standard interpretation by physicists is that force F is proportional to acceleration a

and mass m is the proportionality constant.
Is force a physical quantity?
For a proportionality to […]

Shtetl-Optimized says:
At no point did Einstein ever embrace mysticism per se. That’s another crucial difference between him and Newton . . .
Einstein was practicing mysticism when he claimed to compute the radius of the ultimate reality.1 Mysticism is the claim of “achieving communion or conscious awereness of ultimate reality through direct experience, intuition or […]

TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS MAN
ALBERT EINSTEIN
AND THIS HIS WORK DONE IN FIELDS OF THE
MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS A SINGLE
DISTINCTION OF OUR TIME AND RACE
Lo, for your gaze, the pattern of the skies!
What balance of the relativistic mass, what reckonings
Divine! Here ponder too the Laws which Subtle Lord,
Framing the DeSitter universe, set not aside
But made the relative foundations […]

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I’ve updated the Introduction to my new post-Newtonian world:
Traditionally, the job of designing new worlds has been the responsibility of Doctors of Philosophy, but modern Doctors of Philosophy, the physicists, have become nothing more than careerist bureaucrats1 and the grandest scheme they can think of is to reconcile the two incompatible parts of the physics […]

This is adapted from comments:
If someone turned off gravity right now, then all currently orbiting planets would just fly out at tangents.
Interesting point. In pre-Newtonian times people proved the truth of astrology by the same type of circular reasoning. The believers said that astrology is true because if it weren’t the astrological influx between […]

A commenter yesterday wrote regarding Max Tegmark’s mathematical universe that
maybe our universe is a mathematical object . . . but can we understand this object? Can we solve the equations? I seriously doubt it, we are already having troubles with Navier-Stokes, let alone Dirac coupled with Maxwell, and even with classical mechanics. I rest my […]