Freedom of Science

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 […]

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 […]

I’ve written before about Max Tegmark’s proposition that the universe is mathematics. I just saw it highlighted in Mathematics under the Microscope and I wanted to add a few more comments.
I’m not surprised that academic doctors have discovered that the Universe is not just described by an academic discipline but it is an academic […]

Physicists’ universe

is as universal as Miss Universe:

See also:

The famous Big Bang trope.
The World Series physics trope.

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Imagine a circle. Let the inside of the circle be the observable world. Cosmologists and physicists agree that there is no information coming from outside of this circle.

First principle of cosmology: We do not know what is outside of the observable world.

Therefore what is observed is local. Extrapolation from the local to the universal is […]

Another nice graphic by Flip Tomato. A couple of things I noticed that I’d like to mention. Flip Tomato considers “our solar system” astronomy but “our galaxy & galaxy cluster” to be cosmology. To me everything observable is astronomy.
He also takes care to write “the observable universe” and avoids the Famous Big Bang Trope.
Or does […]

Physics is a system of puns and tropes. Practitioners pick and choose these legal tropes and combine them into papers.
A good example of a physics trope is the Famous Big Bang Trope used to deduce the existence of Big Bang with an absurd extrapolation. We already knew that physics was fringe entertainment and now we […]

When research became professional1 the definition of science changed as well. Michael Faraday is a good example of an amateur natural philosopher.2 When Kea mentioned Faraday in a comment I wanted to read about him again.
Note how Wikipedia calls Faraday a physicist and a natural philosopher. In fact, the word physicist was introduced during Faraday’s […]

A Babe in the Universe writes:
Nearly 30 years ago Alan Guth and others suggested that the early Universe expanded at warp speed, many times faster than light. This inflation would violate both the First Law of Thermodynamics and Relativity’s stipulation that nothing travels faster than light. A divergence of inflation theories has grown up, containing […]

Joel Spolsky wrote:
All those crackpots with schemes of perpetual motion machines, unified theories of physics, and DeLoreans that travel in time while simultaneously converting toothpaste to gold happily regale you with countless stories about how “they said Galileo was crazy.”
Joel Spolsky is a programmer and an entrepreneur. At first reading I thought he was saying that […]