http://www.electricuniverse.info/Introduction
We need more mad crazy scientists doing all sorts of crazy things... Science has become too much of a dogma...
Two non-scientific wacko ideas:
1. Alternate universes. An infinity of them.
2. The Universe popping in and out of existence.
Anyone who proposes them is no longer a scientist.
I remember reading such talk about the field of Optics a few decades ago. With the explosion of technology for fiberoptic communications, electro-optic materials, etc., that talk has vanished.
for later.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7915-most-scientific-papers-are-probably-wrong/#.UwyvVM5lock
http://yournewswire.com/nearly-all-scientific-papers-controlled-by-same-six-corporations/
http://www.nwcreation.net/evolutionfraud.html
Lysenkoism: describes the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.
I would agree with that if they were spending their own money or the money of a private benefactor. But most of them are spending public funds, so called federal grants. Such funds should be doled out sparingly to projects that promise real dividends in real time (DARPA).
Pie in the sky research should be funded privately. Too much of government funded research has become politicized and needs to be defunded.
AT least intelligent design is privately funded. If it is a waste at least it is wasted money voluntarily given and not money taken from individuals by force.
Oh, for the days of Einstein again ...
They fought the law and the law won.
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.
Don't even start me on Phlogiston, you unbelievers.
Some scientists think they know everything and that all has been identified. I remember [as a Medical Lab Technologist] in the late 70’s reading an article in a journal, that lab scientists thought that all human diseases caused by microorganisms had been discovered and defined. Then - surprise! Up popped, AIDS, Lyme disease, all manners of enteric viruses and tick and mosquito born illnesses, not to mention Chalmydia, HPV, Helicobacter, various herpes infections, Ebola, etc. You get the picture?
To this non-physics student it always seemed that too much of the theorizing in physics was too anthropomorphic - it’s true that guys on trains going at different speeds would see the movement of an object at different relative speeds, but there must be a way of determining a “true”, “absolute” speed independent of their observations, and that cat in the box - it should be either dead or alive regardless of whether the guy outside the box knows it is or not - and all the indeterminacy experienced in quantum physics - how much of it results from no more than inadequacies in being able to measure accurately at such minute dimensions - but then I watch a show like “Particle Fever” on PBS not long ago - about the search for and demonstration of the Higgs Boson, and the field -at least major elements of it - seems to take on a new vitality.....
Well, there's your problem right there.
