Freedom of Science

What can we do today to eliminate the scholastic labels from physics?

Galileo was able to use geometry to eliminate scholastic labels of his time because geometry was not yet corrupted by scholastic doctors. Newton corrupted geometry and his disciples have turned mathematics into most corrupt polemical legal system ever invented: the academic physics.  

Despite practicing polemical scholastic philosophy by using their corrupt proprietary legal code called physics physicists still invoke the authority of mathematics to justify their absurd results.

Not only physicists corrupted the old science of mathematics but the profession and the practitioners are corrupt as well. Physics as a profession is so corrupt that it is splintered into cultic factions which are perpetually in war with each other. These bottom dwelling scholastic doctors perpetually call each other names because one faction fanatically believes in one flavor of ADS and the other believes in another flavor of ADS. The best resource to follow modern physics wars is this blog.

In order to recover science from scholasticism we need to do what Galileo did. We need to eliminate the scholastic garbage from physics. 

What is scholastic garbage?

Scholastic garbage is scholastic baggage physicists carry from generation to generation. 

Since physics is a legal code physics can never be wrong. This means that once a code enters physics it will never be removed no matter how wrong it is found to be. No single code which entered physics since Newton was ever removed from physics. How can this be you ask. What about ether? Ether is still in physics, it has changed its name, it speciated into species of vacuum and it is about to make a come back under ether brand again.

Physics is so bloated that it will implode soon, some say. No, that will never happen. Like any oversized hierarchical bureaucracy physics will divide itself into new factions as soon as there is a substantial amount of new code and continue to grow.

The code of physics is comprised of equations, philosophical commentary on equations, experiments, the mythological versions of experiments, principles, traditions, customs, culture, science fiction, absurd, not even wrong, units, algorithms or whatever physicists decide to add to the code of physics. 

For instance, Coulomb’s experiment is not an experiment and it serves no useful purpose but it remains in physics.

Newton’s constant of gravitation G exists for one reason only: to save Newton’s sacred authority. 

If so, assume we eliminate G from physics. What would happen?

Physicists claim that G is a fundamental constant of nature with a precisely measured value. Removing such a fundamental constant from physics would be like removing pi from geometry.

 But it turns out that if we remove G from physics nothing will happen. Without G physics will not collapse but it would plod along as if G never existed.

Therefore, G is a cultural element invented by physicists to save Newton’s authority. 

Physicists routinely eliminate G by setting it to 1. So imagine that in geometry you set pi=1 and everything still worked as before! It won’t. But physicists are scholastic doctors and they see no problem setting G = 1 = 0.000000000006. In the precise experimental science of physics any two number can be set to equal to any other number by the authority of the doctors.

So by equating G to unity the physicist overrules the result of an experiment by his scholastic authority, then he suspends disbelief by equating two different numbers to each other and he calls what he is doing science.

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