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The status of Newton’s force in physics

The Newtonian force has been found to be unphysical and non-existent by physicists. Force = ma = unphysical After finding out that force was unphysical and non-existent physicists replaced it with Einstein’s geodesic. But since Einstein’s General Relativity comes later … Continue reading

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The Cavendish experiment hoax 1

Backreaction has been running an interesting series of What if . . . questions. Here’s my very own What if . . . question about my previous post. What if it’s true that physicists have been measuring the non-existent occult … Continue reading

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Infinite potential

Lawrence Crowell comments in Cosmic Variance that physics has problems with infinities associated with an observable. Infinities crop up with electric potentials V(r) = qq’/r where r -> 0 at a point charge you get an infinite potential. You don’t … Continue reading

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Alternative physics experiments

Physicist ZapperZ notices an analogy with placebo effect, physics and alternative medicine: To get a drug to market, pharmaceutical companies have to show that it works better than a placebo. If we translate this to physics profession we get to … Continue reading

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Science this week 2

Science is questioning. Questioning dogmas of physics is a branch of science. Therefore, questioning the reified reality dogma of physics is valid scientific field that needs to be a section in the arxiv.org. It is more efficient to organize the … Continue reading

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To organize the world’s knowledge

In a discussion involving cosmology someone will always bring up god: if any1 thnks dat der is god,do tell evry1 hw he mst b,wat he mst b,of wat he mst b made of n where i cn find hm,atlist,a hint…Plz … Continue reading

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Five ideological physics experiments

I wrote that There is plenty of evidence that physics is not an experimental science in its essence and Spyros in comments set a good challenge: All physical theories/laws have been constructed to explain the results of laboratory experiments or … Continue reading

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Who is to judge theories?

Who is the authority to judge theories produced by physicists? To evaluate if they have any scientific content? To see if they are mythology or science? Experiments? Nature? Physicists themselves? An outside auditor?

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