Is G a scholastic form?
Published by admin September 18th, 2007 in Doctors of Philosophy, NewtonIn scholasticism there exists forms. Scholastic doctors pick one form and write a commentary on it. For each commentary they write and publish in an official organ they earn professional points.
The points are computed according to the rules of the oldest PageRank in existence. Much like Google’s PageRank the inner workings of the Scholastic PageRank is secret and it is known only to the practitioners. In scholasticism therefore link baiting and Search Committee Optimization are old methods that every doctor learns to use and abuse as part of his practice. One well-known tactic is to divide each commentary into its smallest publishable unit in order to maximize potential link count. But I don’t need to teach doctors how to conduct their trade.
The case sensitive so-called constant of nature G is one of the most popular scholastic forms that doctors have been using to earn career points. There are endless commentary on G and the commentary activity is cyclic and we are now going through a high activity period:
Some minor examples on discrete geometry
Trialogue on the number of fundamental constants
I’ll just pick a comment by Peter Salonen who starts his commentary on G by saying that “because G is universal blah blah blah….” What is the origin of the mythology that G is universal? What evidence physicists have when they say that G is universal? They have none.
In the 19th century the British propaganda machine as part of their program to Newtonize astronomy defined a new astronomical unit by converting the old one into British units and they called it
G == Newton’s Universal Constant of Gravitation.
The only evidence for the universality of G is that the marketing department in charge of physics of the Great British Ministry of Propaganda decided to associate the upper case G with the word universal. Over a century later scholastic doctors of philosophy still blindly repeat the same Newtonian propaganda without questioning it. G is not universal but Newtonian propaganda is.
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