Freedom of Science

Physicist appears to refer to someone who studies nature. Because Doctors of Philosophy named nature physics and themselves physicists. When you use the word physicist you are referring whether you want it or not to a scientist who studies nature. A physicist does not study nature. A physicist is in the business of defining languages […]

Chris Oakley writes:
Renormalizability is a swamp. Yes — you can get the right answer by subtracting infinity from infinity. But you can also get the wrong answer. You can get any answer you want. So why is anything that involves renormalization a scientific theory?
Division by infinity is unscientific.1 To market division by infinity as renormalization is scientific […]