Freedom of Science

Check out Peter Callesen’s wonderful paper cut-outs.1

These paper figures that come out of paper but could never fully free themselves from the background inspire us to speculate on the most fundamental philosophical question: Is there a theater of operations where phenomena happen? Or asked in the language of physics, Is there a background? If […]

Is there really a distinction between a physical quantity and a non-physical quantity? Judging from the definition of physical quantity, there isn’t. “Physical” means “belonging or owned by the profession of physics.” If a quantity exists in the legal physics code, it is called a physical quantity. It is implied that only what belongs to […]

Standard Model of Physics is analogous to the Ptolemaic model. Both are mathematical models based on observations. Ptolemaic model uses geometric epicycles and Standard Model uses analytic epicycles. There is nothing wrong with epicycles. Doctors of physics corrupted the word epicycle and made it to mean “anti-science” in order to hide the fact that they […]

George Johnson duplicates Thomson’s experiment of 1897 with an apparatus he found on eBay. He writes:
First I determined to show myself that electrons really exist. Firing up a beautiful old apparatus I found on eBay — a bulbous vacuum tube big as a melon mounted between two coils — I replayed J. J. Thomson’s famous experiment […]

If Newton were alive today he would not be doing physics, he would be busy contributing to the new science of networks.1 
                             
In Newton’s time finding a tangent to a curve was the state of the art. Today computer science and finding properties of networks is the state of the art. Calculus is the 18th century technology. Academic physics […]

Naming is the origin of all particular things, begins Tao Te Ching.
Naming is the origin of all particles.
Naming is the origin of all fundamental particles of physics.
Naming is the origin of all fundamental building blocks of matter defined by physicists.
Definition is the origin of all things.
Physicists do not observe particles. Physicists name the lines they […]

Susan Wu at Techcrunch writes that
virtual objects are nothing more than a series of digital 1s and 0s stored on a remote database somewhere in the ether.1 What could possibly possess people to spend real, hard earned cash on ‘objects’ that have no tangible substance?
This is a very good example of how much Newtonist doctrine […]

The professional mythology marketed by physicists wants us to believe that physics is an experimental science.
There are three problems with this mythology:
1. In physics there is no definition of what an experiment is. Any physicist can publish his measurements of the oscillations of an oscillator as an experiment.
2. In physics canon there are many historical […]

I like this concept of standard of evidence and I wonder if I could develop it as a criterion to evaluate physics.
What is standard of evidence?
Standard of evidence is a standard. Standard is a definition agreed upon by all parties. A definition when agreed upon by all parties becomes a standard.
In other words, when a […]