Standard is the thing

Admin1: Physicists use experiments as false witness to establish a unit.

Doctor Gravytee: This is an old tradition in physics. It started with Coulomb's experiment, then Cavendish experiment, and then so called the discovery of the electron and the Millikan experiments are all definitions of new units by using experiments as false witness.

A1: If this is true physicists must be certified crooks.

Dr. G: It is not that simple. Take G. This is the so-called Newton's constant of universal gravity.

A1: Cavendish defined it.

Dr. G: No. Cavendish computed the mean density of the earth using Kepler's third law and called it an observation of Newton's law. In the 19th century hard core British Newtonists defined G in order to replace then prevalent Kepler's constant with G, the Newton's constant.

A1: Then when you see a constant in physics it is a definition?

Dr. G: Yes. You got it. Physicists make a definition. Fake an experiment and claim to have observed it. Then they enforce it as a constant of nature.

A1: Oh my God! Physicists are low life bottom dwellers! Low life snake oil salesmen and Shamans! I am so disillusioned.

Dr. G: Well, we are living in a world which is not atomic materialistic. So in a way, physicists prove that the world we live in is NOT atomic materialistic.

A1: Standard is the thing.

Dr. G: Yes. Exactly. There are no discontinuities in this world. It is all convention.

A1: This is so beautiful.

Dr. G: This is also so elegant.

Does String Theory cause lead poisining

Admin1: Union of Concerned Scientists issued a list of examples of political interference in science. Alphysics and its sub-science the String Theory is not listed. This may mean that government does not interfere with Alphysics or Alphysics is not science.

Dr. Gravytee: It may also be that Alphysics is not kind of science worth interfering with. These concerned scientists are concerned about public issues. Alphysics is an elegant theory with absolutely no practical or god forbids proletarian effects. Doctors of Alphysics are arrogantly elegant elitists. This is what sells books. In cosmic and cosmogonic matters public wants authority. We project authority by being arrogantly elegant and elitists. These concerned scientists are concerned about things like lead poisining. None of the spacetimes or backgrounds real or virtual that we use in String Theory cause lead poisoning or that we care to calculated such things.

A1: True. There is no Union of Concerned scientists who are concerned about intellectual string poisoning so you don't have to worry.

Dr. G: String theory is poison only for people who are elegantly impaired. We have nothing to do with them.