Freedom of Science

If Newton were alive today he would not be doing physics, he would be busy contributing to the new science of networks.¹ 
                             
In Newton’s time finding a tangent to a curve was the state of the art. Today computer science and finding properties of networks is the state of the art. Calculus is the 18th century technology. Academic physics is still trying to solve Newton’s problems with 18th century technology.

Here’s what Bernes-lee, a computer scientist, has to say about his view of the world:²

The world can be seen as only connections, nothing else…. A piece of information is really only defined by what it’s related to, and how it’s related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything.

This is the same idea, a physicist, Lee Smolin, investigates in Chapter 4 of Three Roads to Quantum Gravity.

The idea is the same — the world is connections — but packaged differently. Maybe freeing knowledge from academic categories will help. What do you think?loan aaa calif autoloan participation alaska programdollars 3000 loan australiaafter loans bankruptcy aircraftrefinance mortgage loan 228alabama loan bridgeform 1003 loanindianapolis loan cash advance Map

1. To Newton, Christian-Peripatetic mixture taught as science in Cambridge looked like Occult-Newtonian mixture taught as science today. Both are ossified scholastic systems. [↩]
2. Future now. [↩]

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