In the XV-XVI centuries AD, a very popular argument in scientific discussion was … the fire. Science in those days was represented mainly by scholasticism, that is, a philosophical understanding of the Divine, but this does not change the essence of the matter - scientists who disagree with the opinion of their opponents intensively burned colleagues at the stake at every opportunity.
Physics, XX century and bonfires
Is it possible that police methods of asserting their innocence triumph in modern natural sciences - in the age of "enlightenment", "democracy", etc.? Yes, easily. For example, in physics there is … hmm … theory, which is prohibited by law to criticize. So, in 1964, a special decree of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR was adopted: any criticism of this theory should be equated with the invention of a perpetual motion machine, not allowed in print, and the authors should explain their errors. Because to criticize this theory is anti-scientific.
In the West, more specifically in the States, there is no such centralization of science; scientists there are a handful according to the principle of "hobby group", for example, "National Geological Society" and the like. But to punish criticism of the mentioned theory there is accepted much more harshly: anyone who opposed it will be kicked out of the department (if he is a teacher), from the laboratory (if a researcher), deprived of access to the press, scientific archives, and so on. But there is nothing to oppose the truth!
Well, what kind of theory is this, a “sacred cow” is this?
Man with tongue out to the street
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Who of us has not seen a replicated photograph of a very sad little man with sheep's eyes, unwashed patches and a tongue thrown out "on the street"? These pictures obsessively hatched on us from billboards for beer and bank loans, home air conditioners and political parties. Albert Einstein - “He had charisma! Now you have it too! " So, the "sacred cow" of modern physics, entangled from all sides by wire fences, guarded by police checkpoints and mobile patrols, is Einstein's theory of relativity, then, for brevity, TOE.
Let's face it, none of the physicists, either before or after Einstein, had such a powerful PR as old Albert. Moreover, not a single scientist, with the exception of Leonardo da Vinci (but this is a separate topic).
A hypothesis becomes a theory, that is, an assumption that makes it possible to explain previously unexplained phenomena, verified by independent experiments and predicting certain phenomena in their field of science. And most importantly, on the basis of theory, the practice should give the world discoveries and inventions that seriously improve the life of a Man, in other words, new technologies. Now look around and try to find at least one device based on the TOE. Do not strain, there are none. The latest technological breakthrough in the field of physics - the creation of a laser - has nothing to do with TOE. It is known that the theorist of coherent radiation, the Soviet scientist O. Losev wrote a letter to A. Einstein with a request to create a theoretical description of the laser effect from the point of view of quantum theory, but received no answer. And what did he want from a genius,if the genius preferred only to stick out his tongue photogenically in front of the camera?
Result: 1964, Soviet scientists Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov and Nikolai Gennadievich Basov receive the Nobel Prize "For fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which led to the creation of emitters and amplifiers based on the laser-maser principle." All! On this, discoveries and inventions in the field of physics ended. For 46 years, physics, waving a ragged rag of relativism (Einsteinism), is marking time, not forgetting to devour huge budget money.
Intermediate conclusion: Einstein's "theory" (TOE) is not a theory, it is just a hypothesis, an assumption that does not allow to clearly explain the existing facts, does not predict the discovery of other facts, which does not allow to create on its basis really operating devices and devices. And a hypothesis that does not work is supposed to be “fired”. Moreover, this is a hypothesis, which for some reason is protected by means of administrative and repressive measures. That's great! If science is defended by the police, it's a matter of seams! After all, real progress directly implies the obligation to criticize any scientific authorities and their theories. Otherwise - Khan!
Thus, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a serious crisis arose in physics associated with the discovery of radioactivity. Nothing, they discarded the position of the indivisibility of the atom, introduced new theoretical models - and please, an atomic reactor, an atomic bomb, an atomic clock and many more functional atomic things. What if it hadn't been dropped?
But today it is forbidden to drop the TOE administratively. Result? It is all in the absence of any results, I mean, practical. A lot of "sciences" with the prefix "relativistic" ("relativistic astrophysics", "relativistic physics of elementary particles", etc.) were born, but there is no sense from them. In the Alps, the European community has built a mega-accelerator, the notorious Large Hadron Collider. Perfectly! For a couple of trillion euros, they will once again turn a pi-meson into a ca-muon. This will not add a dime to the knowledge of the nature of physical phenomena.
Thought experiment
The entire TOE is illustrated entirely by "thought experiments". It is convenient - you don’t need to take your … back from the sofa, go to the laboratory (it still needs to be created), assemble the experimental setup (it still needs to be designed), read the received data (it still needs to be analyzed). He lit a fragrant cigarette, made himself comfortable on the sofa - and get creative!
The only real experiment, the famous Michelson-Morley experiment, is interpreted by the defenders of TOE in their favor. But the experiment was set up by objective physicists-researchers who honestly tried to understand the problem. Not relativists! Relativists are fundamentally incapable of setting up a physical experiment. The Michelson-Morley experiment is a separate and interesting topic, but now we will follow in Einstein's footsteps and will also set up a thought experiment. Let's delete for a moment the classical electrodynamics of Faraday-Kelvin-Maxwell from the achievements of physics. What happens?
And the result will be a complete absence of electric lighting, running water (electric pumps of ground electric transport of airplanes pump water (without a generator, an airplane is a pile of metal): elevators in high-rise buildings … continue? The fact is that all, absolutely all modern electrical engineering, namely: generator, transformer, electric motor, - created on the basis of Maxwell's classical electrodynamics by the brilliant Russian engineer Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (not Tesla and even less Edison - these were only crumbs from the genius's table). In short, we are falling into the Middle Ages.
All electronic equipment flies there, into the pit of timelessness, from the transistor radio to the painfully dear personal computer. Uncle Albert, again, has nothing to do with their creation, because the basis of electronics - a diode and a triode (and its semiconductor version, a transistor) are created exclusively on the basis of classical electrodynamics. Now we throw out of the history of Einstein with his theory of relativity. Is anyone cold or hot? Naturally! Thousands of parasites - "relativists" that have stuck to the TOE have become hot - a comfortable couch breaks under them, on which they have been lying comfortably for 50 years. And besides freeloaders? Yes, nobody. Nobody will even notice that the TOE was "fired". On the contrary,honest physicists will breathe a sigh of relief and begin to look for new ways of knowing the world around them. For example, the most fearless of them even today remember a form of matter called "ether". It is with the ether as a special form of matter that the most amazing miracles are associated, laid down in Einstein's theory of relativity as a sabotage mine. Here are just the classical physicists, who sowed the state feeder, like crows - a dead horse, are trying their best either to silence this issue or to chatter. And since both methods do not work in the end, they use method number three above: Critics - hit on the head with a stick! They have been holding on to that for 50 years. Well, what about us? - we pay "for the development of theoretical physics", yes. It is with the ether as a special form of matter that the most amazing miracles are associated, laid down in Einstein's theory of relativity as a sabotage mine. Here are just the classical physicists, who sowed the state feeder, like crows - a dead horse, are trying their best either to silence this issue or to chatter. And since both methods do not work in the end, they use method number three above: Critics - hit on the head with a stick! They have been holding on to that for 50 years. Well, what about us? - we pay "for the development of theoretical physics", yes. It is with the ether as a special form of matter that the most amazing miracles are associated, laid down in Einstein's theory of relativity as a sabotage mine. Here are just the classical physicists, who sowed the state feeder, like crows - a dead horse, are trying their best either to silence this issue or to chatter. And since both methods do not work in the end, they use method number three above: Critics - hit on the head with a stick! They have been holding on to that for 50 years. Well, what about us? - we pay "for the development of theoretical physics", yes. And since both methods do not work in the end, they use method number three above: Critics - hit on the head with a stick! They have been holding on to that for 50 years. Well, what about us? - we pay "for the development of theoretical physics", yes. And since both methods do not work in the end, they use method number three above: Critics - hit on the head with a stick! They have been holding on to that for 50 years. Well, what about us? - we pay "for the development of theoretical physics", yes.
Magazine: Secrets of the 20th century №33. Author: Sergey Dunaev