Tag Archives: Physical quantity
Inverse square law
Dear reader, Yesterday a commenter with an agenda, probably a disgruntled physicist, started a systematic and vindictive attack on the person of the author of this blog and went into a long tirade to defend the inverse square law of … Continue reading
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Is physics physics and not physics at the same time?
After I wrote this post I read in Wikipedia that there is a type of logic that allows A to be both A and not A. As a fellow Ionian, Heraclitus was certainly familiar with the preceding substance solution of … Continue reading
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Photon RIP
It is high time to give up the use of the word “photon,” and of a bad concept which will shortly be a century old. Radiation does not consist of particles, and the classical, i.e., non-quantum, limit of QTR is … Continue reading
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Physics and semantics
1. What’s wrong with semantics? One of the most powerful scientific arguments physicists use to dismiss non-legal physics is to say “That’s just semantics.” In physics lingo this means you have just stepped out of legal physics and if you … Continue reading
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Physical semantics
I noticed that physicists use the word physical as an adjective to modify many different types of words. I was curious to understand how physical modifies the words it is applied to as an adjective. It appears that physical is like … Continue reading
Ministry of natural truth
Physicists say that there are physical phenomena that physics explains very well. Unless you explain those as well with an alternative method don’t criticize our physics. Proposition 1 A given observational database saved by a physical theory can be saved … Continue reading
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physics=nature=newton
But wait, you ask, isn’t the Federal Reserve part of the government? Well, no. Most Americans and people around the world do not know that Federal Reserve or Fed is not the government. It is an association of private banks. … Continue reading
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Science this week 1
If physics had a written Constitution and it had a Registry of Physical Quantities what would be the number of the Cosmological Constant? The numbers are of this form, AAAAA-BBBB where A is the category number and B is the … Continue reading
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Does physics need a written constitution?
A written scientific constitution will have many benefits for physics. A constitution will establish the structure, procedures, powers and duties. At present these are hidden inside the profession. Because of the lack of an explicit constitution some may argue that … Continue reading
Singularity is a physical quantity
Ralph Alpher in the Genesis of Big Bang: To physicists it is just as bad to say that one can divide a finite number by zero and get away with it as it is to ascribe to a physical system … Continue reading
