tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post5028015330501220722..comments2023-10-31T03:21:02.309-07:00Comments on Aether Wave Theory: Should journalists second guess the scientific truth?Zephir AWThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14427698206253594481noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-7338023950479539152010-10-06T04:03:13.891-07:002010-10-06T04:03:13.891-07:00Actually it's not so surprising, because peopl...Actually it's not so surprising, because people, who are thinking intuitively (and actually inventing stuffs) are rather bad in formalization or realization of their ideas - so they're not presenting their finding in a way, which is accepted by mainstream science, at least in the time, when this idea was originally proposed.<br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_Stigler%27s_lawZephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-33004682554196187062010-10-11T18:14:00.289-07:002010-10-11T18:14:00.289-07:00Be wary of the righteous rationalist: We should re...Be wary of the righteous rationalist: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=be-wary-of-the-righteous-rationalis-2010-10-11" rel="nofollow">We should reject Sam Harris's <br>claim that science can be a moral guidepost</a>Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-66568196556365480242010-10-14T13:52:39.730-07:002010-10-14T13:52:39.730-07:00There is an old paper by Luigi Foschini about the ...There is an old paper by Luigi Foschini about the problem of interpretation of quantum physics which has raised a discussion about the effectiveness of science and its limits:<br><br><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9807009" rel="nofollow">Is Science going through a critical stage?</a> (<a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/9807009v2" rel="nofollow">PDF</a>)Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-73629124738832508012010-10-15T17:15:41.184-07:002010-10-15T17:15:41.184-07:00current phenomenon of “bloggers” should be of seri...<a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ac102628p" rel="nofollow">current phenomenon of “bloggers” should be of serious concern to scientists</a>Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-12940411404932911712010-11-25T15:00:31.378-08:002010-11-25T15:00:31.378-08:00Trolls are like longitudinal underwater waves, for...Trolls are like longitudinal underwater waves, forming annoying noise at the water surface, whereas the strictly formally thinking experts are like transverse waves spreading along water surface. At the distance these waves converge mutually, so that the every sufficiently farseeing genius is indistinguishable from cretin.<br><br><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poe's_Law" rel="nofollow">Frank Poe's law</a>: "<i>Any sufficiently fundamentalistic stance becomes indistinguishable from its parody</i>" (<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_Poe's_Law_examples" rel="nofollow">examples</a>)<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws" rel="nofollow">Arthur E. Clarke's law</a>: "<i>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from medieval magic</i>" <br><br>The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. <br><br>The Poe's law (in which every sufficiently fundamentalistic stance becomes indistinguishable from its parody) and/or Asimov's law (in which every sufficiently advanced theory or technology is indistinguishable from ancient medieval magic) are not accidental at all - but a theorems of AWT model. <br><br>For example, with increasing level of formalism the advanced theories of string theorists are becoming as fuzzy and untestable, like the incomprehensible implications of modern philosophers (Martin Heidegger). AWT just explains, why is it so and why both group of thinkers converge to the same outcome undeniably, although they're using completely different tools for it.<br><br>At the water surface the strictly causal background independent transverse waves (which are representing strictly formal approach here) are gradually becoming as fuzzy, as the underwater longitudinal waves (which are representing holistic approach of philosophers) and their spreading converges into fuzzy noise from sufficient distance from observer. This can serve as an illustrative physical model of the dichotomy in evolution of human understanding.Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-5754100531928711012010-11-26T15:11:36.761-08:002010-11-26T15:11:36.761-08:00Interpreting Statements in Scientific Papers<a href="http://chemistry.about.com/cs/chemists/a/researchpaper.htm" rel="nofollow">Interpreting Statements in Scientific Papers</a>Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-71952857644798193182010-12-01T02:39:17.074-08:002010-12-01T02:39:17.074-08:00Why anthropology is ‘true’ even if it is not ‘scie...<a href="http://savageminds.org/2010/12/01/why-anthropology-is-true-even-if-it-is-not-science/" rel="nofollow">Why anthropology is ‘true’ even if it is not ‘science’</a>.<br><br>"<i>The opposite of ‘science’ is not ‘nihilistic postmodernism’, it’s ‘an enormously huge range of forms of scholarship, many of which are completely and totally committed to accuracy and impartiality in the knowledge claims they make, thank you very much’.</i>"<br><br>The same applies to another area of science, for example physics, which is very dogmatic too, because of the lack of reliable data for verification. The symptomatic aspect of this intellectual crisis is, young scientists are becoming more conservative, then these elderly ones, because their conformist thinking is carrier driven.Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-3829751145800209142010-12-02T11:31:31.122-08:002010-12-02T11:31:31.122-08:00Albert Einstein: "The bigotry of the nonbelie...Albert Einstein: "<i>The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer</i>".Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-36081213628579248782010-12-07T16:45:49.587-08:002010-12-07T16:45:49.587-08:00Is there something wrong with the scientific metho...<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer#ixzz17Tbk1L2t" rel="nofollow">Is there something wrong with the scientific method</a>?Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-38315752871578211822010-12-22T16:57:25.694-08:002010-12-22T16:57:25.694-08:00In praise of scientific error Excessive caution mo...<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=in-praise-of-scientific-error-2010-12-20" rel="nofollow">In praise of scientific error</a> <br>Excessive caution more damaging to science than mistakesZephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-57733155139891118412010-12-26T11:03:54.787-08:002010-12-26T11:03:54.787-08:00The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often ...<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/17723223" rel="nofollow">The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time.</a><br>Research at one American university found that those who finish are no cleverer than those who do not. Poor supervision, bad job prospects or lack of money cause them to run out of steam.Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-82493944426517493302010-12-27T11:16:44.745-08:002010-12-27T11:16:44.745-08:00Walter Russell Mead: The Crisis of the American In...<a href="http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/12/08/the-crisis-of-the-american-intellectual/" rel="nofollow">Walter Russell Mead: The Crisis of the American Intellectual</a>Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-75409260096413037392011-01-04T19:52:16.310-08:002011-01-04T19:52:16.310-08:00John Allen Paulos - The Decline Effect and Why Sci...<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/decline-effect-scientific-truth-turns-wrong/story?id=12510202" rel="nofollow">John Allen Paulos - The Decline Effect and Why Scientific 'Truth' So Often Turns Out Wrong.</a><br><br>In AWT (dense aether theory) this phenomena can be real emergent nature and it manifests like switching into dual opinion, when the density of facts increases certain level. It's analogous to dispersive spreading of waves at the water surface, which is switching its character with distance from longitudinal into transverse waves and back into longitudinal waves again. It corresponds the layered fractally nested character of Universe and observable reality.<br><br>For example, from terrestrial perspective the epicycle model of solar system appears relevant. With increasing scope this model has been replaced with heliocentric model but now the evolution of galactic arms can be described with epicycle model again. It's just the number of observable objects, which makes epicycle or heliocentric model more relevant.<br><br>After all, the acceptation/refusal of aether model is of the same emergent evolution. Before some time old Greeks believed in Aether, later (Newton) this concept has been replaced with concept of absolute space. In 19th century the aether based models were quite popular again, but they're were replaced later with relativity model of space-time. Now the aether model is returning into physics again with model of Higgs field, which is responsible for particle mass.<br><br>http://aetherwavetheory.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-ancient-physics-was-reborn.htmlZephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749517869523631020.post-56778500138642955372011-01-22T03:06:42.858-08:002011-01-22T03:06:42.858-08:00Maybe journalists cannot guess the scientific trut...Maybe journalists cannot guess the scientific truth, but you can!<br><br><a href="http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/" rel="nofollow">arXiv vs. snarXiv game</a>Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.com