Freedom of Science

Physicists like to contrast physics with religion. In current usage physics is a pun for science and physicists exploit this pun and use physics interchangeably with science. But the contrast is not between science or physics and religion but between science and legal. Here’s what I mean.
Is physics pseudo-science?
There is a lot of talk going […]

A quantum diaries survivor at A Babe in the Universe re Galileo’s 404th birthday:
The physics department where I work is named after Galileo. As you walk up the entrance stairs, you face a brass incision with his head and the sentence, which I love:
 
I value more finding the truth, even on a trivial matter, than […]

Why is there a Newtonian Mechanics?1 Mechanics is an old science that existed since the dawn of history. What happened in the 18th century that a new discipline called Newtonian Mechanics had to be created?
An answer may be found in the titles of mechanics books.
Up to Newton’s time, every Peripatetic Doctor was required to write a treatise […]

Ray Streater writes:
Galileo had to cope with Aristotle’s dictum that a force was needed to keep a body moving; when Galileo had abandoned this, he broke the 2000 year stalemate in science…
Galileo freed motion from force. Newton tied motion and force once again by reintroducing force into physics. Newton’s disciples still enforce Newton’s dictum of […]

I was replying to Bee’s comment that one can do physics without time. I wrote “I agree with you that one can do physics without physics” and I realized that I wrote physics instead of time.
But how true!
Physics without physics is science.
Let me try to explain with an example from that discussion on the nature […]

What can we do today to eliminate the scholastic labels from physics?
Galileo was able to use geometry to eliminate scholastic labels of his time because geometry was not yet corrupted by scholastic doctors. Newton corrupted geometry and his disciples have turned mathematics into most corrupt polemical legal system ever invented: the academic physics.  
Despite practicing polemical […]

Modern physicists do not like to be called scholastics. The reason for this is that modern physicists are Newtonians and they believe in the Newtonian mythology. Physicists believe that Newtonian mythology taught to them at school is history.
According to Newtonian mythology sold as history to physicists, Galileo is a heroic Newtonian who existed to bring […]