Freedom of Science

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 […]

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 […]

Writes nullphysics.com:
Physics is currently in a sad, sad state. Theorists have, upon their global failure to provide coherent solutions to nature’s toughest questions, chosen to relinquish much of their responsibility. They have reached the internally-agreed-upon consensus that their job is not to explain reality, their one and only job is to describe it, using models […]

I’ve been writing that physicists are in the way of freeing the concept of force from centuries old scholastic baggage. In fact, it’s not the physicists per se but it’s the physics bureaucracy that makes impossible any progress to eliminate occult qualities of scholasticism from physics. The marketing name of this old scholastic bureaucracy may […]

The standard model of particle physics does not account for mass.1 There is a very simple explanation for this experimental fact: Mass does not exist.
The model built by Newtonian priests the physicists predicts that there is no mass.2 Newton the grand master of scholastic physics says there is mass. He defined it. He designed an […]

As physics approaches religion ever closer physical miracles1 are becoming commonplace. Miracles have been legal in physics for a long time, but only implicitly, e.g. the Cavendish experiment.2 Now miracles are mathematical and legal, the ever popular cosmogonic mythology also known as the Big Bang comes to mind.ringtone 5450 lg allteldeewana ringtone aisacdm ringtone 8615 […]

Time is Not Real. It Is a Human Perception writes AHughman in a forum dedicated to discussions of big philosophical questions of all sorts. He supports his arguments by citing St. Augustin, the prototypical professional Doctor of European scholasticism.

Internet has turned us all into philosophers.

In Europe, for thousands of years, only Professional Doctors of Theology […]

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 […]

In computer science the code is evaluated by the computer.1 Therefore, professionals have zero authority over the interpretation of the code. The computer does not care who wrote the code and there is no interpretation based on the rank or authority of the author of the code.
In mathematics code is evaluated by mathematicians themselves2 and […]