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| Robert L. Oldershaw... |
 Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:17 pm |
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| Robert L. Oldershaw... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:37 am |
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On Jul 17, 12:07 pm, maxwell <s... at (no spam) shaw.ca> wrote:
[quote:b79b185356]Is this science, or New Age science fiction?
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[quote:b79b185356]The sad fact is, this is what theoretical physics has become today.
Hesse recognized this over 50 years ago, as did Nobel 100 years ago
when he excluded math innovation as one of his prize categories.
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One way of addressing the problem is the following.
Science journals could have a special section titled "PURE
SPECULATION" and papers like the one above (and wait til you see next
week's "winner"!!!) could be carefully quarantined in that section.
Don't get me wrong, I love speculation. But I also recognize the
grievous danger to the health of science if pure speculation is
conflated with real science. Especially if people get too comfortable
with believing in things on faith/authority rather than via
prediction/
testing. And I would argue that such is the case in HEP/cosmology
today!
In Magister Ludi [aka The Glass-Bead Game] Hermann Hesse did
wonderfully intuit the beginnings of the present disaster in
theoretical physics [a "slow-motion train wreck", as one dissident
put
it].
The question is: Will those who care about science, who view it as as
a calling and something precious, come to its defense? Or will those
who treat science as a competitive sport and carreer, whereby they
derive power, money and a sense of superiority, continue to dominate
and eventually completely corrupt science?
You may say I am an alarmist and/or a lunatic, but science has been
sent into hiding in at least two major bursts of ignorance and
corruption in the past 2500 years, and it may well happen again. We
may arrive at a "unified "string" theory" that explains the whole
cosmos, but is completely untestable. And we know where that leads.
Given the present state of theoretical physics, what important new
ideas are being censored/ignored?
Yours in science,
RLO |
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| Mok-Kong Shen... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:18 am |
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Robert L. Oldershaw wrote:
[quote:efd0e05e63]Science journals could have a special section titled "PURE
SPECULATION" and papers like the one above (and wait til you see next
week's "winner"!!!) could be carefully quarantined in that section.
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There exists actually a journal for pure speculations: "Journal
of Scientific Exploration". See Wiki.
M. K. Shen |
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| Robert L. Oldershaw... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:14 pm |
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On Sep 12, 12:18 pm, Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.s... at (no spam) t-online.de> wrote:
[quote:42c50dccaf]Robert L. Oldershaw wrote:
Science journals could have a special section titled "PURE
SPECULATION" and papers like the one above (and wait til you see next
week's "winner"!!!) could be carefully quarantined in that section.
There exists actually a journal for pure speculations: "Journal
of Scientific Exploration". See Wiki.
M. K. Shen
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Thank you very much for pointing out this journal.
I will check it out carefully.
Yours in science,
RLO |
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