The Problems of Contemporary Science
Sven Gelbhaar
20.09.2018
There are two main problems: the gullible populace, and the charlatans who prey on them.
People are more concerned with feel-good explanations of physical phenomena than truth.
Take the Heisenberg Principle, for instance. Because light is reactive, we cannot
determine its three main attributes of speed, direction, and location. The charlatans
picked this up and turned it into an argument that light (or protons etc) HAS NO three
attributes, and that consciousness plays a role. The witless dupes immediately jump at
this explanation because it makes them feel good to imagine that they are somehow a
god, whose sheer consciousness changes physical reality like in a make-believe daydream
(which is exactly what it is). Perception is reality? In Social Science this platitude
might ring true, but only the lunatic thinks it applies to objective reality.
It originally started with Einstein and his precursors. Einstein was clever at the
outset, bringing quantized light into the physic’s purview as well as the existence
of molecules to explain Brownian Motion. After that, however, he went to the dark
side (so to speak). Instead of seeing the photons’ change in vector as it passed
the sun as a text-book case of Faraday Rotation (bearing in mind that photons and
the composition of matter was made up of charged particles), he conjured up something
as crazy as “space-time,” and this “space-time” warps in not just 4 dimensions, but
higher even than that to make General Relativity work. At least he didn’t jump on
the bandwagon called Quantum Field Theory which projects our forced ignorance of the
three main attributes of sub-atomic particles and stipulated that indeed reality
itself shapes itself to fit our understanding. This resulted in the invention of
“superposition,” which given a few minutes of thought can easily be rejected. The
world is chaotic on the sub-atomic echelon of existence, and yet we don’t experience
any randomness in the super-atomic echelon of existence. Funny, randomness of any
kind would manifest itself in our natural plane of perception, but try telling the
witless populace that. Another good example of this is the Shapiro Effect, aka
Time Dilation. An obviously optical illusion (Lorentz Transformation) does not mean
that time is relative in some objective way. The subject traveling at (near-)luminal
speed might see the progression of time slightly warped, but this in no way
necessitates that “space-time” actually reflects this perception. But keep selling
this magical mumbo-jumbo to the masses. They can’t lap it up any more eagerly than
they currently do, with “experts” in their fields selling the pie-in-the-sky fantasies
on national and international venues.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough,
we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding
out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge,
even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you,
you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a
Candle in the Dark
Then there are PhD.s in the current regime of scientific soothsayers. They’ve been taken
in so long and far that now they’re unwilling to evaluate propositions that they paid
tens of thousands of dollars to be spoon-fed (university degrees are getting more
expensive every year). They’d rather lie to themselves, and the public, rather than
admit that all their hard-bought ideas might be fallacious.
— the messenger