Freedom of Science

Newton used Kepler’s rule the way an evil genius would have used a mass destruction weapon to annihilate the world. Newton used his weapon to design an occult world. Newton annihilated rationalism.¹

Newton’s secret weapon was Kepler’s Rule. Newton redefined Kepler’s Rule to be Newton’s laws and wrote a book to legislate Newton’s laws as the laws of nature.

I was reminded of this when I read in Samuel Pepys’s diary that in the 17th century London football was played on the streets but it consisted only of kicking the ball. It had no rules or goal posts or positions. People just hit the ball as hard as they could.

It was said that Newton made physics a science by defining laws. Before Newton there was chaos. After Newton it was all laws. Standard is the thing. Football indeed became a thing only after its rules were established.

But in footbal there are no laws only rules. If the game is played 50 minutes each half instead of 45 minutes not much will change. There is no law of nature which says that football must be played 90 minutes.

Americans call football soccer. Physicists call Kepler’s rule Newton’s laws. Physicists call a rule a law to save Newton’s authority.

Americans will never learn how to play football because they will always play soccer. I find it really pathetic that physics is based on such a pun and misunderstanding of Newton. Calling Kepler’s rule Kepler’s rule will remove the occult from physics and make it a science.

1. Rationalism means that the world is rational, that is it can only be understood by analogy (proportionality) and not by legal systems such as physics. [↩]

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