Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Against Atomic Materialism

Admin1: We are living in a world which is not atomic and which is not materialistic.

Doctor Gravytee: That's right. Newton's religious belief in atomic materialism was imposed on the world as the true religion.

A1: Ever since Newton human beings see the world in atomic discontinuity.

Dr. G: Exactly. From childhood on we are indoctrinated to see a materialistic universe.

A1: But the world looks materialistic.

Dr. G: No. It doesn't. There are no discontinuities in the world we live in. There is no matter.

A1: There is no matter? Here I kick this wall and I proved that matter exists.

Dr. G: What did you prove? You just proved that the wall is denser than you.

A1: For neutrons the wall is transparent.

Dr. G: There are no neutrons in the sense physicists fool you into believing. There are no absolute particles. If there were there would be discontinuities in nature.

A1: There are no discontinuities.

Dr. G: Discontinuities cannot exist. All is one.

A1: The entire physics is bosh.

Dr. G: Exactly. Once Newtonist dogma will finally go away, humanity will take a free breath of scientific air.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Absurd

Admin1: It is well known that the founder of Alphysics Newton legalized absurd by making mixed proportionalities legal. How come this does not create a global uproar?

Dr. Gravytee: !!

Friday, January 26, 2007

Meaning and quantity

Admin1: There is a difference between meaning and quantity.

Doctor Gravytee: Alphysics is about experiment and quantity. Philosophy is about meaning.

A1: Alphysics is hard science where things are measured. Alphysicists do not waste time on polemical discussions such as meanings of symbols.

Dr. G: There is no reason to discuss meaning. Any symbol means whatever we say it means.

A1: Yet, quantity and meaning are related.

Dr. G: Meaning is quantity. Each quantity is a single definition of a symbol.

A1: Semantic alphysics comes before theoretical alphysics.

Dr. G: Theoretical alphysics comes before semantic alphysics. Alphysics is science. Everything else is not.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Elegant semantics

Admin1: Is semantic physics the enemy of Alphysics?

Dr. Gravytee: Semantic Alphysics is just semantics.

A1: You choose authority over meaning.

Dr. G: Alphysics is more than meaning. Alphysics has no meaning. Look at the most famous Alphysical theory.

A1: No one knows what String Theory is.

Dr. G: To discuss what String Theory is would be semantics.

A1: Mathematical semantics is good.

Dr. Gravytee: Whatever you say is semantics. Whatever I say is Alphysics. Alphysics is science. Everything else is semantics.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Virus and Orgus

Admin1: Virus and Orgus look so different but they are the same organism in different scales.

Dr. Gravytee: Both Virus and Orgus exist for the same reason. They both prey on humans.

A1: How come we perceive the Virus but not the Orgus as our enemy?

Dr. Gravytee: Humans have difficulty perceiving organisms which exist outside the range of their senses because they are indoctrinated since childhood by the Newtonian atomic materialist dogma.

Monday, January 22, 2007

Institute for Simplification of Alphysics

Admin1: You chair the board of Institute for Simplification of Alphysics

Doctor Gravytee: The sub-committee on the preliminary report to the introduction of the principles of simplification of Alphysics has been putting the finishing touches on their report.

A1: If simplified Alphysics would get very boring. How do you propose to simplify without making Alphysics boring.

Dr. G: Simplification in Alphysics is a technical term that laymen may not easily grasp.

A1: Entropy rules Alphysics.

Dr. G: Well said. There has never been an Alphysical equation which did not become more complex upon simplification.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Atomic materialism

Admin1: What makes things things are not their absolute atomicism but their motion.

Dr. Gravytee: If it moves together it is perceived as a thing. Either something moves or you can move through it. Both makes an organism a thing.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Principle or law of nature

Admin1: What is the difference between a principle and a law of nature?

Dr. Gravytee: A principle is an arbitrary definition invented by Alphysics Doctors to fill an annoying discontinuity in logic which is stopping Alphysics Doctors from arbitrarily defining a law of nature to save the Alphysics dogma.

Friday, January 19, 2007

If it is not alphysics it is not science

Admin1: Humor is the only way of saying something serious.

Dr. Gravytee: Your statement is not humourous therefore it cannot be serious.

A1: Is Alphysics the only way of saying something absurd?

Dr. G: No. Alphysics is the most scientific way of saying something absurd.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Cosmogonix

Admin1: Is cosmogonix a new science?

Dr. Gravytee: Cosmogonix is the old science of cosmology as practiced by Alphysics Doctors who specialize in Dogmatix.

A1: Who are the most famous Doctors of Cosmogonix?

Dr. G: Doctors Asterix, Obelix, Panoramix, are the most famous cosmogonixists ever lived in any universe.

A1: Including cartoon universes created by Alphysicists in general.

Dr. G: The medium is everything. The same cartoon universe expressed as a Lagrangian is called Alphysics, if it is experimentally proved by Doctors of Alphysics it is called religion, if it is presented in a serious book it is called cartoon.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The back page landscape

Admin1: The Big Media controls Alphysics.

Doctor Gravytee: From a business point of view Alphysics Doctors are free content providers for the Big Media. We get pitiful academic salaries and let the Big Media use what we produce in outrageously priced peer reviewed journals, and textbooks.

A1: And in bestsellers.

Dr. G: There is an immense imbalance of distribution of wealth in Alphysics. Big Media selects one star to be the face of Alphysics and the star gets an unfair share of the scholastic wealth produced by rank and file who gets nothing.

A1: The content of science is defined by the Big Media.

Dr. G: The entire scientific agenda is defined by the Big Media. By creating artificial rivalries among Alphysics Doctors the Big Media keeps science divided. Rivalries sells more books.

A1: Science is not sports.

Dr. G: Looking at String theory wars we see that the Big Media reduced Alphysics down to the level of sports.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Against asceticism

Admin1: Self is happiest when in room temperature.

Dr. Gravytee: A Doctor of Alphysicist is happiest when in absolute temperature.

A1: Why are you so fond of the absolute.

Dr. G: Absolute is proportional to authority.

A1: The more you are for the self the more you eliminate things which are not related to self, such as money and consumer items. Comfort and ownership of consumer items remove self from room temperature.

Dr. G: Look not for what you can eliminate but look for what you can add. Eliminating the superfluous decorations eliminate contextual meaning. In scholasticism words are not constants but variables. More variable, more authority.

A1: Variables vary with the context.

Dr. G: Authority defines the context. Circular reasoning is a circular fence keeping outsiders outside insiders inside. Scholasticism is a closed system. Only an Alphysicist can de-contextualize an Alphysics paper.

Monday, January 15, 2007

Mathematical Principles of Scientific Elegance

Admin1: Congratulations! Your new book Mathematical Principles of Scientific Elegance hit the bestseller lists.

Dr. Gravytee: Reader Beware: This a mathematical treatise there are no equations in this book.

A1: The Ministry of Definitions defined Mathematics = Equation.

Dr. G: Alphysical equation is a sophistical tool which is the opposite of mathematical precision. In my Principia I declare myself to be a contrarian Alphysicist: simple is elegant.

A1: Your Principia is to String Theory what iPhone is to Chartre Cathedral.

Dr. G: String theory defines baroque to be elegant. I say design is elegant not decoratively monstrous.

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 13, 2007

Experimental alphysics

Admin1: How many worthless academic experiments which cannot be considered scientific experiments do I need to show to alphysicists in order to convince alphysicists that alphysics is not an experimental science?

Dr. Gravytee: This is philosophy. We don't deal in philosophy.

Friday, January 12, 2007

Teachers of doctrines

Admin1: Is science the religion of Doctors of Philosophy?

Dr. Gravytee: A Doctor is defined as someone whose profession is to teach a doctrine.

A1: There is no doctor without doctrine.

Dr. G: There is no doctor without doctrine and there is no scholasticism without doctors.

A1: Where there is doctors there is scholasticism.

Dr. G: Where there is scholasticism there are rituals.

A1: Doctors sell their rituals as the doctrine.

Dr. G: Theological Doctors call their rituals religion Philosophical Doctors call their rituals science.

A1: Science must be something else.

Dr. G: Doctors have the authority to define what science is. We defined it as our ritual.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

The twin paradox

Admin1: What is the twin paradox?

Dr. Gravytee: Twin paradox is a slapstick comedy where both twins claim to be the true scientist.

A1: Everybody claims to be a scientist. Even Alphysicists claim with straight face that they are scientists. How do we know who is the scientist and who is the evil scholastic twin impersonating science?

Dr. G: You can't. No one knows.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Academic Vaporware

Admin1: An Alphysics paper is vaporware.

Dr. Gravytee: If you eliminate all of the scholastic symbolism invented by Alphysics Doctors an alphysics paper would evaporate.

A1: That's why there are no Alphysics papers which cannot be simplified further.

Dr. G: An alphysics paper is like the heap of mud Marie Curie used as the raw material to distill. If you distill an alphysics paper you may end up with something.

A1: Or you may not.

Dr. G: Or you may not. So no alphysicist busies himself with such an academically counterproductive activity. It's better to write your own heap of scholastic symbolism.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Knowledge and Sharing

Admin1: Knowledge multiplies by sharing.

Dr. Gravytee: Sharing happens when what is shared is legible to both parties.

A1: What is the purpose of publishing a paper if not sharing?

Dr. G: Publishing an academic alphysics paper is not sharing. Alphysicists publish first and foremost to earn academic points and then to hide any information they may know. Alphysicists hide information in order to monetize it. The currency of scholasticism is authority.

A1: The currency of scholasticism is not knowledge!

Dr. G: What is monetized by alphysicists is authority not knowledge. That's why sharing is anathema to physicists. Note that an alphysicist will freely share with you what is already in public domain. But then you can google that.

A1: What is the purpose of Alphysics?

Dr. G: Shooting a paper at an innocent bystander is academic sniperism not sharing. No one gains from academic sniperism except the academic who gains a few academic points.

Monday, January 08, 2007

God and Mathematics

Admin1: Where does mathematics end and algorithm start?

Dr. Gravytee: Mathematics is owned. Algorithm is not.

A1: There are algorithms which are owned.

Dr. G: Owners of algorithms always call them mathematics.

A1: Mathematics is the scholastic baroque decorations on an algorithm.

Dr. G: Mathematics is like art. Mathematics is what a mathematician does.

A1: That goes for Alphysics too.

Dr. G: The importance of mathematics lies in the fact that we use it as authority.

A1: Mathematics is an authority much like God.

Dr. G: Our brother Doctors of Theology use the word God as their final authority. We the Doctors of Alphysics use Mathematics as our authority. Many people who have no fear of God are horrified by mathematics. They are our constituency.