Freedom of Science

TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS MAN
ALBERT EINSTEIN
AND THIS HIS WORK DONE IN FIELDS OF THE
MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS A SINGLE
DISTINCTION OF OUR TIME AND RACE
Lo, for your gaze, the pattern of the skies!
What balance of the relativistic mass, what reckonings
Divine! Here ponder too the Laws which Subtle Lord,
Framing the DeSitter universe, set not aside
But made the relative foundations […]

Funny conjunction of physicists with pirates:
But I only know how to talk like a Pirate!
Trust us, Physicists are way cooler. Pirates are, well, pirates. What they do is completely illegal; it is just a matter of time before they are caught and get 25-30 yrs in federal prison for being crackpots.
On the other hand, physicists […]

At its present form the book is a vehicle used by the publishing industry to get richer by exploiting the content producers. Physicists are one of the most exploited content providers.1
The book itself as a product is not dead. The way radio did not die when TV came along. But its form and function have changed.
The business […]

The word physicist appears to refer to someone who studies nature. Doctors of Philosophy named nature physics and themselves physicists. When you write physicist you are referring whether you want it or not to a scientist who studies nature.
A physicist is not a scientist and he does not study nature. A physicist studies physics.
Physics is […]

Transcript of Lisa Randall on Colbert Report:
Colbert
My guess tonight is a theoretical physicist who teaches at Harvard University. I am guessing not a Huckabee supporter. Please welcome Lisa Randall. Thank you Doctor Randall. Thank you for coming on. I hope you’ll clear up something for me. . . . Your entire book.
Randall
[Laughs]
Colbert
It’s called Warped passages: […]

Here’s a draft for a proposal to John Templeton Foundation. (Read the Proposal to Perimeter Institute.) Templeton Foundation supports research on spirituality1 so I am emphasizing the spiritual side of Freedom of Science.
1. Spiritual places
I am interested in understanding for myself what spirituality means. Let’s go to a place I visited a few years ago […]

I read all the answers to this year’s question with great interest. I noticed one thing though. How I perceive a statement is greatly influenced by my knowledge of its author. Do you feel the same way?
I thought that if I read the same responses without knowing who said them I could free myself from […]

I was wondering what kind of theory the Standard Model is. Assuming that theory and model are synonyms I drew this tree starting with Model:
   
According to this there are two species of models: rule based and simulation.
I thought there were three kinds of simulations: Axiomatic, algorithmic and trigonometric.
Then, I realized that axiom should be at the […]

Doctors are free content providers for the Big Media. They give away their intellectual property to the Big Media who packages them into ridiculously expensive journals and sells them to Universities where these Doctors work.
The method is familiar from Colonialism. The British colonialist bought raw material on the cheap and packaged it back to the […]

Academic artists painted commentary on Old Masters. Academic scholastics wrote commentary on their Old Master. This was the cult of the old. Tradition endowed authority. Tradition created a constant.
With the establishment of the cult of the new, old looked old.
The academic art bureaucracy solved this problem brilliantly by adapting modern as its creed. This label […]