Posted on 01/21/2016 12:52:39 PM PST by Trumpinator
How Physics Lost Its Fizz
Physics, which decades ago seemed capable of answering the deepest mysteries of existence, is now just recycling once-exciting ideas
By John Horgan on January 18, 2016
For a lapsed Catholic like me, physics represented a kind of scientific theology, an empirical, rational way of probing the mysteries of existence. Physicists were discerning resonances between the smallest and largest scales of reality and spinning out astonishing conjectures about our universe and even other universes.
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Physicists' fantasies about parallel and virtual realms are not just stale. Increasingly, they strike me as escapist and even irresponsible, because they are so lacking in evidence. Scientists shouldn't have to serve the public good any more than poets or musicians. But if theories are being passed off as science, shouldn’t they have at least a remote chance of being empirically corroborated? Otherwise, how do they differ from pseudoscientific ideas like intelligent design?
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Things have gotten so bad that physicists are openly fretting about the future of their field. In a recent TED Talk, “Have we reached the end of physics?â€, Harry Cliff states that “for the first time in the history of science, we could be facing questions that we cannot answer, not because we don't have the brains or technology, but because the laws of physics themselves forbid it.â€
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Dogma is safe. “Crazy things” get scientists disappeared or killed.
http://www.greenoptions.com/t/4212/6-nuclear-plasma-battery-technology-inventors-now-dead-or-missing
http://rense.com/general62/list.htm
Is that the Universe is a Hologram theory?
Law 1
Nice carry piece.
There is an experiment that shows the universe only fills in information when you observe it - just like a video simulation only fills on the background when you move the cursor into a field. When not being observed the universe is stored as data.
Science advances one funeral at a time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT-_uCLwKhQ
Double Slit Experiment (Through The Wormhole) proves that reality is simulated for our benefit.
“Note to self - I am pleasantly surprised this posting is getting some good comments. All politics is boring all the time.”
Amen!
There’s still a lot of interesting stuff coming out of physics. The problem is theoretical physics has advanced so far beyond engineering capabilities that it’s all kind of meaningless. Once upon a time the lag between working out the math of how some chunk of reality works and building a machine to use that knowledge was a few years, now it’s at least decades, maybe even centuries. A big part of that is because physics and engineering are working in the same directions anymore. Engineering right now is very focused on improving existing stuff, not wholly new things, and physics is still playing with the wholly new. Even when they get a tool to mess with stuff, like the Hadron, there’s still a “now what” at the end. Yea we “found” the Higgs Boson, not that we know what to do with it, but we “found” it.
It’s perverted compared to “I Love Lucy” but by today’s standards, no. Only network sitcom I like.
Don't even start me on Phlogiston, you unbelievers.
Dogma is safe. “Crazy things†get scientists disappeared or killed.
They key is to come up with something like that and then spam the HOW-To everywhere to avoid death.
Make the money off the book about discovering the wolrd changing device not the device itself, sadly you have to deal with the monopolists this way, Heinlein saw this with the short story in the 1950s about a solar collection crystal.
Given recent history, I'd dare say the number one is certainly possible. It seems like an alternate reality has been happening in my world since about 2008.
Blam! Blew that theory out. Note to self, make your comments short, funny and informative.
If we allow too much phlogiston to accumulate on one side of the universe we run the risk of the universe tipping over, in which case the stars and planets all fall out. (Hat tip to Congressman Hank Johnson...)
Is that Dr. Peratt’s galaxy simulation?
I must have seen that many years ago in “The Big Bang Never Happened” by Eric Lerner.
Lerner was working on an interesting plasma-focus device... wonder if he ever made something useful.
I suspect that a great number of the recent advancements in physics have been appropriated by the military and it may be a long time, if ever, that they are made public.
Funny how demonized mercury has become in the past 50 years. Not that it doesn’t deserve it, but it does neatly coincide with the advances being made in mercury plasma in relation to it’s effects on gravity.
Just saying.
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