Showing posts with label Newton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newton. Show all posts

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Newton's First Law of Scholasticism

Admin1: Today scholastic education consists of teaching Newtonian doctrine mixed with data analysis techniques.

Dr. Gravytee: If we just teach data analysis without Newtonian doctrine we would look like a trade school.

A1: Data analysis and Newtonian doctrine are two different subjects with no relation.

Dr. G: Newton's First Law of Scholasticism says that once in never out.

A1: Curriculum gets more and more complicated.

Dr. G: Anthropic Principle proves that it is not a coincidence that Nature is divided neatly into natural divisions that closely match academic departments. If Nature had not been divided into academic divisions naturally we could never make any scientific advances.

Saturday, January 06, 2007

A visit to a theoretical physics institute

Admin1: I just visited a theoretical physics institute and could not stop laughing.

Dr. Gravytee: It is true derivation looks funny to civilians.

A1: I saw theoretical physicists filling whole blackboards just to bring two symbols on either side of an equality sign.

Dr. G: Why don't they just write the two symbols without deriving it, right?

A1: A painter wanting to compare two shapes or colors simply brings them side by side. This is so funny. Imagine painters invented a silly ritual where in order to compare red and green you have to perform a ceremony by going through the whole color theory in order to derive red and green!! Every time a painter needs to use a color she needs to derive it!!! This is what theoretical physicists do with their symbols! lol.

Dr. G: There is some truth in this observation. An equation also compares two quantities. But as Doctors of Alphysics we are bound by centuries old true rituals. These rituals make physics the science that it is. If we don't go through these rituals as we are taught to do while we were students we could be hit by lightning thrown down to us by Newton.

A1: Do you pray to Newton every day?

Dr. G: Every Doctor of Alphysics says his prayers to Newton every day by at least cancelling the standard Force symbols from Newton's equations of motion. This gives us a great joy.

A1: But you already know the outcome.

Dr. G: We do. When you say your prayers to your god you know the outcome as well otherwise you cannot say your prayers.

A1: Why do you write F when you know F will cancel?

Dr. G: Force is Newton's Soul. This is the fundamental substance of the universe. If we don't write F we could not represent nature properly.

A1: Some of the theoretical physicists I saw were much more advanced. They used Lagrangian.

Dr. G: Lagrangian is a great prayer. Get into the habit of saying your Lagrangian every day. It is good for your scientific soul.

A1: What is a Lagrangian anyway?

Dr. G: Newton stole Kepler's law wholesale and sold it retail. The next generation of scholastic doctors had to make their own names. So they took Newton's retail and divided into more pieces by introducing more symbols. So R3T2 became lines and lines of greek symbols in the hands of Lagrange but when simplified said the same thing. Lagrangian is R3T2 in scholastic form.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Legalize Absurd

Admin1: Historians discovered that Newton titled his book Scholastic Principles of Mathematical Philosophy but the printer goofed and had the title set as Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.

Dr. Gravytee: This is wishful thinking on the parts of historians. Newton would never have allowed such a thing to happen.

A1: You mean Newton would have proofread the galleys and made sure that the title was correct?

Dr. G: No. Newton wrote his Principia to be the monumental book of the Scholastic Principles of Mathematical Philosophy.

A1: Why didn't he use that title then?

Dr. G: Newton is the greatest marketing genius of all times. In marketing only one thing matters: You must talk to your market in the language your market would understand.

A1: Who was Newton's market.

Dr. G: Newton knew very well who his market was. Newton wrote his monumental book for his Scholastic colleagues.

A1: This makes sense. Only Scholastic Doctors of Philosophy could read books.

Dr. G: Scholastic Doctors of Theology were included in the audience Newton was aiming. Newton wrote for International Scholastic Doctors around the globe.

A1: Principia does not speak the language of scholasticism. It is a mathematical treatise. It is the most famous science book ever written.

Dr. G: Did you read Newton's Principia.

A1: Sure.

Dr. G: You mean you read the initial chapters where Newton discusses old scholastic subjects such as time, space, gravity, force, the universe, god's role in governing the universe and great polemical experiments such as the bucket experiment.

A1: Yes. I read all of that.

Dr. G: This is Newton's genius. Newton invented mathematical by association and experimental by association methods. By writing about philosophy and geometry under the same cover Newton united two scholastic disciplines.

A1: Doctors of Philosophy of today still use experimental by association.

Dr. G: Of course. It is a brilliant fraud against science.

A1: So all Newton did was to change the official language of scholasticism so that Doctors now philosophized with mathematics instead of Latin.

Dr. G: Philosophy is an old discipline. There is nothing wrong with philosophy as a scientific endeavor if done by scientists. Doctors of Philosophy are not scientists and they are not philosophers either. They are corruptors of languages. A Doctor of Philosophy is in fact a Doctor of the Absurd.

A1: Was absurd invented by Newton too?

Dr. G: No. Newton did not invent the absurd. Newton made the absurd legal in Scholasticism.

A1: How?

Dr. G: It was known for millennia that if you compare apples and oranges you would obtain an absurd result. Geometry and mathematics were good frameworks to investigate nature and they gave good results because it was forbidden to use mixed proportionalities in mathematics. Mixed proportionality is the comparison of apples and oranges.

A1: Did Newton make mixed proportionalities legal?

Dr. G: Open the best science book ever written and read the reference that I have given you. All of the absurd manufactured last three hundred years by Newtonian Doctors of Philosophy can be traced to Newton's marketing genius. He opened a whole new possibilities for Doctors to write commentary on by legalizing the absurd.

A1: If we make Newton illegal would we recover science?

Dr. G: We would. Post-Newtonian generation will enjoy Freedom of Science.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Newton's Wig

Admin1: An authority symbol always becomes fodder for jokes for the next generation.

Dr. Gravytee: The word Newton has been a synonym for genius and science since eternity.

A1: Why was he wearing a wig?

Dr. G: That was cool at the time.

A1: You are saying that if the brand is set up professionally and maintained well and updated carefully the symbols of authority will never become jokes.

Dr. G: Newton is backed up by the most sophisticated marketing department in the world.

A1: Newton's contemporaries from Holland used elaborate lace collars as authority symbols.

Dr. G: More likely as status symbols. But your status brought authority as well.

A1: Will this symbol of authority ever become fodder for jokes?

Dr. G: It looks remarkably like fine lace worn by the Dutch. Authority symbols work both ways. They also imprison its owner. When you have a Lagrangian around your neck that's more like a garrote than a decoration.

A1: According to the author of that link Lagrangian is on its way out.

Dr. G: There is a confusion there. Alphysics is divided in its use of lace. Doctor Carroll who dismisses Lagragian practices at CalTech where Lagrangian is fashionable. At University of Chicago only Hamiltonian is used. These formalisms come and go.

A1: To me a Lagrangian looks as old fashioned and funny as lace collar. I wonder why it is still around.

Dr. G: Today we have computer programs which do what Lagrangian was invented to do in the 18th century. The scholastic alphysics bureaucracy is an immense bureaucracy. Once the Lagrangian entered the books it could never be removed.

A1: So if alphysics Doctors were in charge of developing writing instruments for humanity we would still be writing with quill pens not typing on a keyboard.

Dr. G: You got the idea.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Freedom of Science

Admin1: Freedom of Science is the most fundamental human right.

Doctor Gravytee: May be so but humans are not aware of this yet. Since the beginning of history scientific authority always resided with rulers, tyrants, and deities.

A1: A ruler is a human.

Dr. G: Originally all rulers made sure to deify themselves. They were not humans. This is the origin of marketing which is the oldest science.

A1: Doctors of Alphysics are the modern tyrants who obstruct the free flow of information therefore deny humans freedom of Science.

Dr. G: The true authority resides with Newton. Doctors of Alphysics come and go Newton is absolute and immortal.

A1: Newton's Soul is the substance which permeates the entire universe. No wonder he is immortal. Is there a way to free humanity from this religious tyrant?

Dr. G: Yes. Humans must unite and then the rest will come.

A1: That would be the end of Alphysics.

Dr. G: Not at all. We'll change the name of Alphysics to the new science whatever that is. We'll then donate to humanity the day the Big School changed its name as a global holiday and humans will be happy.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Scholastic Rip Off

Admin1: Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred-year snooze and he is bewildered by what he sees. Women dash about half naked and go aworking for big corporations which did not even exist then. Women and men talk to small metal devices pinned to their ears or they have white strings dangling from their ears. Young people instead of working sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls--every place Rip goes just baffles him. But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. "This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in 1906. Only now the blackboards are green."

Doctor Gravytee: Poor old Rip is ignorant of Alphysics. The rate of change of giant bureaucracies is asymptotically close to zero. Scholasticism is one of the oldest and biggest bureaucracies in existence.

A1: I see. Scholasticism transcends national boundaries, it is a protected monopoly, it has no incentive to change. Therefore it does not change. As long it can grow it never changes.

Dr. G: It changes so slowly that it is not even perceptible.

A1: What happens if instead of Rip, Newton woke up from his slumber and came visit us?

Dr. G: Newton would be delighted to see that the religion he established, the Newtonism based on the faith he called Newton's Soul, is stronger than ever. At Newton's death no schools in the new continent taught Newtonism. In the new continent Benjamin Franklin was considered a true scientist not Newton. Newton will be glad to see that the old British colony is now teaching its students the British Newtonist religion as the state religion.

A1: But Newtonism is science not religion.

Dr. G: This is the point. Since Newtonism is taught to you as science when you learned your alphabet you cannot tell that Newtonism is religion. Newton will be so happy to see that his religion is still taught as science.

A1: What happens if Benjamin Franklin came to visit our century?

Dr. G: Benjamin Franklin would be shocked to see that a British religion is being taught to the students of the nation he saved from the British colonization.

A1: Franklin denied the authority of the King of Britain and the authority of the self-declared British King of Mechanics. Now he sees that British colonialists infiltrated the nation at its core. That must be devastating to Benjamin Franklin.

Dr. G: Exactly. Newton wanted to meet the great Benjamin Franklin as if to make him a favor but Franklin could never find the time. Why? Franklin was a free born. He was a citizen not a subject. He could think for himself. He had no need for the authority of the British King or the authority of the British science deity.

A1: This is so true. The reason Benjamin Franklin was able to discover the true laws of electricity was because he denied the authority of the British Newton.

Dr. G: Obviously. But Newton will be happy to see that in alphysics textbook used today in US schools Benjamin Franklin is not mentioned but Newton is mentioned as the god of science taking credit even for the discovery of science of electricity discovered by Franklin.

A1: This cannot be just to Franklin. By teaching the British Newtonist religion to our children we are betraying our heritage. We are betraying the legacy of founding fathers! We are actually teaching our children a 17th century British occult religion instead of science of Benjamin Franklin! Just thinking about this gives me shudders.

Dr. G: That's why Newton is the greatest marketing genius of all times. Newton will see that he was right in every marketing move he made. But Newton is also worried.

A1: Why?

Dr. G: Newton is worried about the Internet. He doesn't like what he sees. Newton is for absolute authority for his disciples who call themselves today physicists. Once citizens have free access to knowledge the authority of the Newtonian Doctors of Philosophy is diluted. The authority of the Newtonian Doctors of Philosophy who call themselves today physicists and cosmologists are based on the fraud that they propagate namely that they know something citizens do not know. Today citizens can easily verify that Doctors of Philosophy are charlatans. They are the latest version of the old shamans except that today they are licensed to practice shamanism when they obtain their license to practice shamanism, the PhD.

A1: Newton's worry is not justified. Internet is already doctored by the Newtonian doctors.

Dr. G: Well. Funny isn't it. Citizens can never win against the Doctors. Citizens are free and independent so they act freely and independently. Doctors act as a group of Newtonist zealots and they are stronger.

A1: We the people already missed one opportunity to get rid of the Doctors when the printing press was invented. Today the Internet is almost lost to Doctors.

Dr. G: Newton will win again.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Hidden assumptions

Admin1: Freeman Dyson has a new book: The Scientist as Rebel.

Doctor Gravytee: Dyson's total misunderstanding of Newton distinguishes him as one of the important alphysicists of our time. In his latest book Dyson argues that the best way to understand science is by understanding those who practice it. He tells stories of scientists at work, ranging from Isaac Newton's absorption in physics, alchemy, theology, and politics to Ernest Rutherford's discovery of the structure of the atom.

A1: The number of hidden assumptions in this sentence is more than usual even for an alphysicist.

Dr. G: Well, yes, Dyson is a famous alphysicist. The more famous an alphysicist is the more hidden assumptions he can cram in a sentence.

A1: He calls Newton a scientist.

Dr. G: Not only that he makes Newton practice physics. The word physics was invented in the 19th century because the general population was realizing that people who called themselves natural philosophers in honor of Newton's book's title were nothing other than the same scholastic Doctors who have been praying on human reason for millennia.

A1: Newton did not know what physics was.

Dr. G: Rutherford's discovery of structure of atom??

A1: Why? You don't believe Rutherford discovered the structure of atom?

Dr. G: Yes of course. He did in the mythology of alphysics.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Is science science

Admin1: In the list we have only two humans mentioned.

Doctor Gravytee: Not true. Remember Alphysics is marketing. In marketing we create an exact replica of the human and mythologize the replica. In rational systems this cannot be done. If you try to name two files on your desktop with the same name you would get an error message. Windows is a rational system. Two items with the same name would not make sense to a rational system. In Alphysics the more synonyms the better.

A1: In reality there are two Newtons and two Doctors Greene. One mythological and one human.

Dr. G: Yes. Alphysics uses the mythological Doctor Greene.

A1: Mythology is secular religion. So I should put Newton and Doctor Greene under religion?

Dr. G: Yes, in theory. But remember we don't want to use old and tired words. Religion is an old and tired word with an image problem. Alphysics is science. So create a category called science and put Alphysics and String Theory under that category.

A1: Will do.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

The greatest genius ever lived

Admin1: According to a new study Newton has been rated the greatest genius ever lived?

Doctor Gravytee: Newton was indeed a genius.

A1: What kind of proof do you have for that?

Dr. G: Newton discovered gravity.

A1: What does this mean?

Dr. G: Newton defined the laws of the universe.

A1: Are you talking about the so-called Newton's laws?

Dr. G: Yes. Newton's laws are still valid even if we need to modify them here and there a little bit.

A1: You don't think there is a Newton myth.

Dr. G: There is a Newton myth. And rightly so. Newton's genius is beyond any mortal's comprehension.

A1: But Newton did not know about the String Theory. Newton did not know about Einstein's theory of General Relativity. It seems that since he failed to discover such elegant theories of nature he cannot be such a huge genius.

Dr. G: There is no measure of genius. Newton established the modern field of science today we call Alphysics. He is the founding father of Alphysics. To recognize this fact Doctors of Alphysics defined the fundamental unit of Alphysics to be Newton.

A1: Have you read Newton's Principia?

Dr. G: No. What for?

A1: But Newton's Principia is the greatest scientific book ever written.

Dr. G: No doubt about that.

A1: Is it also the fundamental book of Alphysics?

Dr. G: It is. But most Doctors of Alphysics do not know this fact.