Freedom of Science

I compared physics to tax code. There was an objection to that. Physics is not like the tax code. Ok. If physics is not like the tax code what is it like?

What kind of objects is physics made of?

I see two different kinds of objects in physics:

1. Strings

2. Magnitudes

String objects include:

• Definitions
• Principles
• Axioms
• Labels
• Placeholders
• Commentary
• Polemics
• Philosophy
• Argument by authority
• Opinion
• Speculations
• Scenarios
• Press releases

Most of physics is made of comments

The comments may be on magnitudes or they can just be comments on comments. As long as the comments refer to previous comments it is considered legal physics and therefore it is legal and the author will get professional credit for his comments.

Physics is in the comments

Most of physics is like comments on a computer program. Therefore, they are irrelevant to the working of the code. But worse. Comments in physics are not marked as comments. Physicists are master polemicists marketing theiry commentary as “calculations.” 

Equation is not the code

If we continue the analogy of the computer languages, the code part of physics is supposed to be the equation part. But this is not true. The physics equation is a mixture of strings and magnitudes. Equation is the vehicle physicist use to comment, i.e. philosophize.

Nature errors physics out

If we assume that Nature is the computer and the experiment is the interpreter, physics code would not work. The reason is that physics does not have error. Computer programs work because they respect errors.

Physics has no errors

“No error” means that the practitioner, the author of the code, has absolute authority over the code, over the interpreter (the experiment) and over the computer (Nature). In physics the professionals are legislators of Nature not investigators of Nature.

Authority is the currency in physics

This is why in Scholastic, Inc., i.e. physics, authority is the only valid currency of the profession. When and if the practitioners give up this professional authority, the way Galileo did, they will become scientists. I call this Galilean Transformations and I recommend it to every physicist.

Then it becomes clear why most of physics is commentary on the laws of physics. This is how the practitioners earn professional points and authority in order to move in the hierarchy.

The culture of physics defines the content of physics

The only reason I am interested in the sociology of physics is that the scholastic structure of physics, (based on the European Scholasticism invented in the Middle Ages by the Doctors of Philosophy, the ancestors of today’s Doctors of Philosophy) is still considered to be science. It is important to note this fact. Because of their professional monopoly they enjoy physicists own objects of science. For instance, physicists own the Cavendish experiment.

Physicists have unified the truth table

A division of physics objects into two simple sections as strings and magnitudes is not realistic. In physics not magnitudes but commentary, i.e. authority, rule. Therefore, there can be no duality and there can be no contradictions. There are no dualities in physics because there is no error. True, Not True, and Not Even True are all valid statements in physics.

Magniture is the most popular concept in physics

With authority comes the right to define. In physics might is right. And might is proportional to authority. The result? We must include the species of magnitudes used in physics as additional objects of physics. The most well known species of magnitudes physicists use is called magniture.

Magniture is scholastic manure physicists market as magnitude.

String, in the sense of string theory is a magniture. Force is a magniture. Physicists write down force terms in order to cancel them. So the Newtonian force in physics is not a magnitude but magniture. Force has never been measured. Force is magniture. Density is magnitude.

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