Freedom of Science

Newtonism has always been a politico-religious movement. The dynamics of this movement can be found in the 18th century European politics. European history is a series of arguments escalated to wars by rulers over their ideas about whose standard should be the official European standard. Instead of cooperating on defining, say, a standard yardstick to measure length, Europeans first start a war, kill each other in the name of God, ruin beautiful landscape, displace women and children and animals only to make truce after getting bored with warring. The winner gets to choose the unit yardstick to be used in Europe. Same with weight standard, or currency standard or with faith standard.

The same is true for what Europeans consider science. Each major European country defines and markets a genius world builder and wants all Europe to accept his worldview as the true and absolute worldview. This is Europeans’ understanding of science. So, the French claim that vortices are the thing and France’s archenemy the British say no way the world is a void. British Newton steals the astronomical rule discovered by German Kepler and Newtonizes it and collaborates with political powers to establish British colonizations of continental Europe by making Newton’s Soul the standard of science.

And predictably a period of war ensues. Continentals try to refute Newtonism as best as they can. But the British propaganda engine coupled with Newton’s own marketing genius is no match to Continental attacks and they eventually succumb to Newtonism and embrace it with the zeal of the convert.

This is not surprising. Scholasticism transcends borders because professionals doctors’ allegiance is with their profession not with national borders. Once the unification is established British and French Doctors of Philosophy no longer care about their nationalities.

Upon standardization of Newtonist religion as the official science of Europe every scholastic center in Europe starts to develop their own local version of Newtonism. Laplace writes thousands of pages to create a French version of Newtonism. Laplace’s book is an enormous system of notation built on Kepler’s rule in the name of Newtonism. This is exactly the same attitude that forces each European country to have their version of Christianity.

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