Freedom of Science

Would the evidence for Big Bang stand in a court of law? Not in the court of physics but in a court of law? Since physicists are judge, jury and the accused, an evaluation of mythologies of their own creation will necessarily be biased, to say the least. Physicists cannot evaluate scientifically their own theories […]

Chris Oakley writes:
This is how it works. In the way that quantum field theory is done - even to this day - you get infinite answers for most physical quantities. Are we really saying that particle beams will interact infinitely strongly, producing an infinite number of secondary particles? Apparently not. We just apply some mathematical […]

Doctor of Philosophy Sean Carroll this time meddles in politics and notes that politicians routinely involve in perjury.
Well, let’s see what would happen if the same non-perjury rules were applied to physicists.
Physics is the only professional industry which is not regulated. It is the law of nature that unregulated professionals perjure themselves more than regulated […]

Cavendish experiment is one of the fundamental experiments in physics and today there are thousands of practicing physicists1 and only 1 or 2 among them read Cavendish’s original paper2 and none actually duplicated the experiment. But despite their total ignorance of the Cavendish experiment physicists argue that Cavendish measured the Newtonian force.

Cavendish measured the Newtonian […]

Judging from history of physics patent offices must have a deep connection with fundamental research. Yesterday I looked at the argument in Microsoft v. AT&T where lawyers discuss if software can be patented.
The law allows only four categories to be patentable: “process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter.” Therefore, to find out if software is […]

I would recommend physicists friends to read this Supreme Court transcript from February 21, 2007 for the  case Microsoft v. AT&T.
Below are some of the familiar physics concepts discussed by Justices and the lawyers arguing the case (numbers are how many times they are mentioned).
Thing = 36
Tangible = 3
Photon = 5
Physical = 46
Matter = 13
Mass […]