Freedom of Science

Fliptomato has a great picture:
    
This is an instant classic. I have so many things to comment about his picture.
Let’s start with this. I have been writing for many years that it is now time to establish a kind of separation in physics that is standard in the arts: Physics need to be divided into two […]

There is a new revolution brewing in physics. Physicists have discovered a new state of truth. Besides “right,” and “wrong” there is now a new state of reality called “not even wrong.” Predictably, not even wrong has now become a legitimate academic field of study.1 Therefore, we should expect to see string theorists to churn out not even wrong […]

Bee refuted my statement that “time is what clocks measure” is the “official view” of time in physics:
“Your idea of ‘official view’ in physics is bullshit.”
After this authoritative refutation I started to wonder. Is there an official view of time in physics?
But I think she is objecting to the idea of “official view” in general. […]

I always note here how lawyers and physicists are practitioners of the same profession. But there is a difference: compared to physicists lawyers are high class scientists.
Here’s a good example. Read the post there and then come back here.
I want to quote the judge:
It is as if the question debated were the contents of a […]

There are many people who think about String Theory the way I think about it: Scholastic Junk.
I agree. But I differ with them in one major issue: This is not about String Theory. This is a major human rights issue. This is about Scholastic Doctors who prey on human reason. Because Scholastic Doctors call themselves […]

Physicists working on String Theory.
Physicists working on other physics theories.
These are not two different groups of people working in different professions. The profession is the same. String theorists are academic physicists. All academic physicists are Doctors of Philosophy. All Doctors of Philosophy who call themselves physicists are priests of Newtonist religion.
String Theory is a different […]

As I was browsing in Borders today I noticed that they placed Brian Greene’s Elegant Universe in Fiction/Literature section. I checked if someone just put it there after picking it up from the science section. No, it was in the correct alphabetical location and there were a half a dozen of them on the shelf.
I […]

Closed information realms
I watched Natalie Jeremijenko’s video on Seed.  This is a great video. I was so impressed with her projects and ideas that I looked for more information and found another video in the same place.  This was great too. Some concepts that she mentions were more eloquent versions of what I have been […]

Why do Doctors of Philosophy do not like to be called Doctors of Philosophy? Doctors of Philosophy who run Cosmic Variance remove my comments because I call them Doctors of Philosophy! This must indicate some deep trouble with how modern scholasticism works.
Why are Doctors of Philosophy so offended when they are called Doctors of Philosophy? […]

Doctors make their living by making definitions. Definitions have their own lifetime. Once a consensus is reached and a definition becomes a law it dies and ceases to change.
Many people have analyzed the classic problem of the rate of change of definitions. The origin of major socio-economic problems have been tied to out of synch […]