The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics

Suppressed Science.Net ^ | 12/06/08 | http://www.suppressedscience.net/

[MHGinTN]

Actually, according to Galen, only four: phlegmatics, sanguines, cholerics, and melancholics.

[dfwgator]

Actually, according to Galen, only four: phlegmatics, sanguines, cholerics, and melancholics.

Don't all the phlemgatics live in Belgium?

[AdmSmith]

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[AdmSmith]

and the last sign should be ;-)

[betty boop]

The current consensus view of physical reality which is based on relativity, quantum mechanics and big bang cosmology may turn out to be more social construct than eternal truth.

That seems a definite possibility.

Thanks for the ping to a great article, Kevmo!

[Old Professer]

Clearly the writer of this piece has an interest in what is often termed ‘free energy’ but if one strips all this away what remains is the essential brotherhood of the established scientific priesthood; what gets published gets read and only that.

[Grammy]

You are really mean to a tech challenged person! I got "Whyæ÷Atry�W�forchange" as the best I could do!

[AdmSmith]

http://www.dolcevie.com/js/converter.html

Why not try Hex for a change

[Grammy]

Thanks. That saves me lots of groping in the dark to try to figure it out.

WWWWaaaaayyyy too many options!

[SuperLuminal]

IMHO, this crap isn't worth pinging.

The whole subject of science has degenerated into a cacophony of psycobabble.

And little wonder, since the loss of public education in this country and Mike McCormick's permanent castration of basic research in the late 70's, there has been very little capability for critical and/or creative thought coming into physics and other sciences for the past several decades.

Referees have always (since the earliest days of science and philosophy) been thought to be a_holes by those whose articles have been severely criticized or rejected for publication or presentation.

In addition, outfits like NSF went from being a good-old-boys network comprised of very competent scientists to a political network of anal hacks.

It's only going to get worse, unless someone comes along with the balls to start all over by abolishing government schools and the Fabians scum that control them. Then, and only then, is there a long-term hope that science can be restored to the levels of the 17th, 18th, and first 75 years off the 20th centuries.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SL, here's something you'll probably agree with.

Ernest Lawrence, a pure experimentalist... said, "Don't you worry about it -- the theorists will find a way to make them all the same." -- Alvarez by Luis Alvarez (page 184)

I must reiterate my feeling that experimentalists always welcome the suggestions of the theorists. But the present situation is ridiculous... In my considered opinion the peer review system, in which proposals rather than proposers are reviewed, is the greatest disaster to be visited upon the scientific community in this century. No group of peers would have approved my building the 72-inch bubble chamber. Even Ernest Lawrence told me that he thought I was making a big mistake. He supported me because my track record was good. I believe U.S. science could recover from the stultifying effects of decades of misguided peer reviewing if we returned to the tried-and-true method of evaluating experimenters rather than experimental proposals. Many people will say that my ideas are elitist, and I certainly agree. The alternative is the egalitarianism that we now practice and that I've seen nearly kill basic science in the USSR and in the People's Republic of China. -- ibid (pp 200-201)

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[Talisker]

Can you post a source for that?

Sure, it was from a three-part discussion of hyperdimensional physics by Richard Hoagland. The specific part involving quaternions were in a description of the reduction of Maxwell's equations, where there was no recognition of the energy potentials of scalar componants, versus that of vector componants, leading to the scalar componants being factored out in a "reduction" of the number of equations.

Hoagland's work is, as I am sure you are aware, the subject of a lot of argument over it's validity. Nevertheless I have found him to be a source of a lot of information that is otherwise refused acknowledgement. And he's been shown to be right more times than not, to the consternation of NASA.

Anyway, if it's your cup of tea, Cheers!

http://www.enterprisemission.com/hyper1.html

http://www.enterprisemission.com/hyper1a.html

http://www.enterprisemission.com/hyper2.html

http://www.enterprisemission.com/hyper2a.html

http://www.enterprisemission.com/hyper3.html

[Kevmo]

The problem with Hoagland is that he’s loaded down with 01100010 01110101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110100

[Paradox]

While there may be some kind of truth to this post, as someone who has worked with and personally known many science types, there is far too much competition within science for there to be any real suppression. Sure the Majority may look askance at you for your heretical views, but the potential rewards for the person who is proven right are simply far too great. Nobel prize, scientific immortality, you can imagine.

Most people probably don't understand how competitive being a Scientist is, it can actually be pretty cut throat. In fact, many say that it is TOO competitive, leading to a hoarding of data, information, and resources.

So while there are things like funding that can be scarce for the guy who goes against the grain, the Maverick can come into SUBSTANTIAL reward for being right.

[Kevmo]

While there may be some kind of truth to this post,
***Standard yeah-but filler

as someone who has worked with and personally known many science types,
***That would describe 95% of the population. If you want to establish credibility then say that you ARE one of those types.

there is far too much competition within science for there to be any real suppression.
***01100010 01110101 01101100 01101100 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110100. This article is just a reasonable example of how scientists are fallible humans and exhibit classic human failings. Suppression of competing philosophies and their access to finances is just normal, selfish human behavior.

Sure the Majority may look askance at you for your heretical views, but the potential rewards for the person who is proven right are simply far too great.
***Partly 01100010 01110101 01101100 01101100 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110100, partly the truth. Yes there are great potential rewards. That overlooks the huge investment of resources, time, money and effort it takes to overcome the obstacles even when ridicule isn’t part of the equation.

Nobel prize, scientific immortality, you can imagine.
***Didn’t Al Gore get a Nobel Prize? Scientific immortality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, apparently.

Most people probably don’t understand how competitive being a Scientist is, it can actually be pretty cut throat.
***And here you come completely roundabout and reinforce my own point. Thanks. Scientists exhibit fallible human nature.

In fact, many say that it is TOO competitive, leading to a hoarding of data, information, and resources.
***Oh, those wacky science types, hoarding data and resources. They’re so territorial. But they could never engage in fallible human nature activity like suppression of opposing viewpoints, nahhh. /s

So while there are things like funding that can be scarce for the guy who goes against the grain, the Maverick can come into SUBSTANTIAL reward for being right.
***Your point does not follow.

[Talisker]

The problem with Hoagland is that he’s loaded down with 01100010 01110101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110100

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[onedoug]

3.14159....

[Talisker]

3.14159....

1.61803....

[grey_whiskers]

In a paper titled A Solid-State Maxwell Demon (57) D.P. Sheehan and A.R. Putnam of the departments of Physics and J.H. Wright of the department of Mathematics and Computer science of the University of San Diego have proposed a semiconductor device that would generate useful energy from the thermal noise of an electronic circuit. The authors successfully tested their model on a commercial semiconductor simulator and estimate that the technology necessary to construct a laboratory model will be available by 2007.

It's now past 2007; any follow-up?

Cheers!