Freedom of Science

Guest post by Zeyn
Mathematics Village website
The closing of the Mathematics Village does not seem to be an assault against teaching of mathematics. This turns out to be about local politics.
The law the prosecutors are using is the TCK 263. (See this article about legal background.) Remember that Ali Nesin’s father was an internationally acclaimed Turkish writer Aziz […]

If Newton’s force is occult and it does not exist in Nature how does the Cavendish pendulum move under the influence of the Newtonian force?
I claim that Cavendish pendulum does not move under the influence of the Newtonian force.
How can I prove this?
In Physics Forum we wrote down the Newtonian force exerted by the attracting […]

I saw this article by Abhay Ashtekar at CosmoCoffee. 1 What a tangled web physicists have put themselves in! They are simply going through motions and waiting for their own Alexander to cut the knot for them and throw the mess they have created on the old scholastic garbage heap and free physics from itself.2
Scholastic physics
Ashtekar writes that […]

I’ve started a new forum at Tangler to discuss the Cavendish experiment with the whole world.
Cavendish experiment is one the most fundamental experiments in human history. There is a mythology around this experiment obscuring what Cavendish did. Separating the myth from the experiment will reveal some interesting facts about our understanding of the Newtonian force. […]

There is a very nice discussion going on at Physics Forum regarding the Cavendish Experiment. I wrote about the two tests that I want to try here and I really appreciate the thoughtful comments at Physics Forums.
I am arguing that the linear force of the wire cannot balance the dynamic Newtonian force which varies as […]

In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity Lee Smolin writes that
The Universe is made of processes, not things.
I agree with the basic idea. Let’s ignore the processes part and just read this statement as a denial of Newtonian atomic materialism:
The world is not made of things.
Things are conventions. Standard is the thing. The network is the […]

Two comments from Not Even Wrong:
Garbage Says:
“Nima Arkani-Hamed thinks big. He has a theory that our universe is one of an infinite number of universes”

In which part of the landscape did that happen?

“Arkani-Hamed first made a name for himself by suggesting that our universe is five-dimensional.”

They forgot to add he also discovered 3 1 and […]

Unapologetic mathematician wrote that
Newtonian mechanics is a useful mathematical model…
Is this why physicists still keep “Newtonian mechanics?” Or is this what they pretend? Physicists say Newtonian mechanics has been supplanted by Einstein’s General Relativity. Then the same physicists fail to compute orbits with Einstein General Relativity so they fake it by saying
in the Newtonian limit General […]

Joi Ito writes:
Larry [Lessig] is a genius at identifying how complex systems such as law, code and politics influence each other. He’s able to figure out where the balance is and turn murky complex issues into sharp, understandable thoughts around which movements can rally and debates can be won.

This quote reminded me the Vision […]

Carl Brennen wrote:
Physicists obtain tenure by fitting in with the rest of the sheep and extending knowledge using only the techniques built from the current assumptions. … The vast majority of physicists are doing basic engineering using theory that was written by a tiny minority, most of that a long time ago.

I agree with the […]