Freedom of Science

I make the assumption that there is a database of observations (”Database”) and there are only three ways to model the Database:
1. Fit
2. Trig
3. Rule
Curve fitting and trigonometric series are used in practical positional astronomy and rule based computation is used in theoretical astronomy.
 
There are two rules:
1. Kepler
2. Newton
I claim that Kepler’s rule and Newton’s […]

John Baez and Mike Stay have a new paper called Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone. I believe that Mike Stay is writing the Computation section which is not yet available. In this post I have some general comments to make about the comparison of physics and computation as studied in the introductory […]

Here’s a draft for a proposal to John Templeton Foundation. (Read the Proposal to Perimeter Institute.) Templeton Foundation supports research on spirituality1 so I am emphasizing the spiritual side of Freedom of Science.
1. Spiritual places
I am interested in understanding for myself what spirituality means. Let’s go to a place I visited a few years ago […]

Tycho Brahe spent his own money and created an observatory and started to build a new database. As true to his European character, Brahe considered the database to be his own property and did not share it. His dream was to use this new improved database to develop his Tychonic World which was something in […]

Standard Model of Physics is analogous to the Ptolemaic model. Both are mathematical models based on observations. Ptolemaic model uses geometric epicycles and Standard Model uses analytic epicycles. There is nothing wrong with epicycles. Doctors of physics corrupted the word epicycle and made it to mean “anti-science” in order to hide the fact that they […]

In the time of Copernicus the astronomical database was so out of shape and corrupted that some of that observations in it were made by Hipparchus a millennium ago. One of the heavy users of the database was the Catholic church. They used the database to compute religious holidays. The Church realized that unless the database […]