Freedom of Science

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 […]

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 […]

This is how physics needs to be taught:1
I guess what I tried to do was give him a concept in need of a name, rather than a name in need of a concept.

In physics what is taught are names of ossified doctrines. Students are asked to believe these labels as absolute truths.
This is how physics […]

I want to understand what force is. This seems to be a simple question. What complicates the issue is that there are two ways of looking at the question.
1. Physicist’s way
2. Scientist’s way
1. Physicist’s way
In physics there is nothing to question: Force is what is defined as force in legal physics.
For physicists, whatever they define […]

Let M1 to M8 be types of representation of phenomena:
M1 = Faith
M2 = Belief
M3 = Guess
M4 = Conjecture
M5 = Speculation
M6 = Hypothesis
M7 = Theory
M8 = Model

Therefore, the list is ordered by
S_n = M_n/E

where S = Science and E = Evidence.
Example 1:
S1 = M1/E is division by zero.

This proves that where there is faith there is […]

Doctors of Philosophy are not the enemy. Doctors of Philosophy are the victims. Their arrogance stems from their own realization that they have been fooled by the Newtonist priests into getting into a profession they thought would let them become scientists. Midway through their Newtonist indoctrination they realized that what they taught was science education presented to […]

Scholastic Doctors of Physics at Cosmic Variance have been raving about some measurements made by other scholastic Doctors of Physics at University of Washington.
Doctors Sean Carrol, Mark Trodden, Chad Orzel and Rob Knop are Doctors of Philosophy who have commented on this measurement. All these doctors assume that measurements made by Kapner et al is […]

It is 2060. A historian of science looks at 2007. What does he see?
In 2060 Newton’s reign has been over for about a decade. The post Newtonian generation has no respect for Newton’s authority. Newton is seen as the second Aristotle who corrupted human reason for over three centuries. Students are no longer indoctrinated with […]

Freedom of science is the most fundamental human right.
Science is the activity which defines humans as human.
Since the beginning of history scientific authority resided with deities not with humans. This transfer of scientific authority from a deity to humanity is an urgent human rights issue.
What is the best method to achieve the goal of transferring […]

http://scienceblogs.com/seed/2006/12/popper_chat_1.php
A nice discussion involving several relevant topics:

The confusion about what is science : faith : religion

Science and physics as synonyms

Academic pecking order as physicists on top and historians below physicists

The loose use of the word universe to mean both “everything that exist” and “observable part of a whole”

Knowing that one is a scientist while discussing […]