Monthly Archives: July 2007
Physicists hard at work…
Hunt the Higgs: the card game. Search for Future Influence from L.H.C.
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The Cavendish Anomaly
At Theorema Egregium nc quoted Imre Lakatos: Scientists … do not abandon a theory merely because facts contradict it. They normally either invent some rescue hypothesis to explain what they then call a mere anomaly or, if they cannot explain … Continue reading
Milk drop collider
This image ((Photographed by Harold Edgerton)) is a good analogy of physicists’ understanding of constitution of matter: Here’s a collider where two fluids collide and form new forms of the same fluid. Physicists too let fluid collide with fluid and … Continue reading
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Textbooks
Scott McNealy asks why is California paying some $400 million annually to update K-12 textbooks? The answer is to perpetuate the state religion called Newtonism. There is perfect synergy between governments and the Big Media. Neither the Big Media nor the … Continue reading
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The dawn of science
Why humans are still awed by the authority of the book? This is so unreasonable. Instead of looking at the information most humans look at the medium. They have a hierarchy of authorities for the mediums with books on top. … Continue reading
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The physics canon is immutable
Christine Dantas asks: Is there more to gravity than gravitons? What prompted her question was T. Padmanabhan’s From Gravitons to Gravity: Myths and Reality. She wonders if the issues raised by Padmanabhan are indeed correct and if so, how would they … Continue reading
Filed under Doctors of philosophy, Physics
Higgs or bust?
Nature: With the impending confirmation or refutation of the Higgs hypothesis, many theorists are getting cold feet. Why are these theorists getting cold feet? Because physics is scholasticism played in the media outlets. Media presents string wars and scientific revolutions … Continue reading
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Physicists have zero scientific integrity
In this article called “How the LHC came to be,” Chris Llewellyn Smith proudly details the obscene bureaucratic ways of the Europeans. It seems that Europeans did not make any progress in their understanding of science since the Middle Ages. … Continue reading
Filed under Doctors of philosophy, Freedom of Science
Newton stole
This is the video where Feynman says Newton guessed. Newton did not guess.
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Gamow on the Cavendish experiment
George Gamow wrote ((Gravity, p. 44)) that Henry Cavendish demonstrated the proof [of the existence of the Newtonian force] beyond argument. What kind of evidence does Gamow have to declare so authoritatively that Cavendish proved the existence of the Newtonian force … Continue reading
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