RE: What modern physics is turning into?
May 26, 2021 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2021 at 4:53 pm by HappySkeptic.)
I love physics. Maxwell's Equations are beautiful. E=mc^2 is profound. And physics never deals with things that don't matter 
I feel that the more people understood physics, the fewer people would be hoodwinked by cults or online craziness.
Sure, physicists sometimes talk about wild hypotheses, but it takes both math (a check on internal consistency) and experiment (a check on correspondence with reality) to make a theory.
Then comes the attempts to disprove it, and see if it is burdened with unwarranted baggage.
Physics is the most fundamental of sciences, and does not suffer fools gladly.
I feel that the more people understood physics, the fewer people would be hoodwinked by cults or online craziness.
Sure, physicists sometimes talk about wild hypotheses, but it takes both math (a check on internal consistency) and experiment (a check on correspondence with reality) to make a theory.
Then comes the attempts to disprove it, and see if it is burdened with unwarranted baggage.
Physics is the most fundamental of sciences, and does not suffer fools gladly.
