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Five ideological physics experiments
October 15, 2008 byzeynel|Edit
IwrotethatThere is plenty of evidence that physics is not an experimental science in its essenceand Spyros incommentsset a good challenge:All physical theories/laws have been constructed to explain the results of laboratoryexperiments or observations of physical phenomena. Every single one of them. If you claimthe opposite, you must do this using precise facts and not speaking abstractly.Here are the precise facts on five physics laws, constants or theories that are based on ideology and noton experiment:In all these cases physicists used the authority of the experiment as a false witness to prove ideology.This places physics, in the hierarchy of sciences, below religion. Because religion is clearly markedreligion. In physics, definitions made with a gadget are marketed as true laws of nature that come withthe seal of authority of an experiment. If you look carefully, the seal of authority is the seal of thephysics bureaucracy.
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Experiment Physical quantity
Scientificcrime Owning Authority
Coulomb experiment - 1784
Coulomb’s lawFakedParis Academy
Cavendish experiment - 1798
Force and GFakedPhysics bureaucracy
Millikan oil drop experiment -1909
Charge of electronFakedPhysics bureaucracy
Thomson discovery of electron- 1897
ElectronFakedPhysics bureaucracy
Official value of G - 1982
GFakedU.S. National Bureau of Standards
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Ideological physics experiment #1: Coulomb experiment
Coulomb’s experiment proves how cheap physics laws are. Coulomb made just three measurements andin all three of them he was part of the experiment because he neglected to ground himself. Coulomb’scontemporaries could not duplicate his results. No one so far has been able to duplicate Coulomb’sexperiment.Physics bureaucracy decided how nature must behave and they asked Coulomb to make their ideologyofficial with a pendulum. In this case the bureaucracy was the Paris Academy who accepted Coulomb’sextraordinary claims because of their belief that nature must obey Newton’s laws. Scientists whoattempted amodern duplicationin the University of Oldenburg concluded thatCoulomb’s rhetoric of purported instrumental precision was tailored to his primaryaudience, mathematicians of the Paris Academy who were ready to believe that electricityobeyed a simple mathematical law, like Newton’s law of gravity, and to accept the ratherunique and private results of a fellow member.This is very relevant. As you’ll see below nothing changed in the profession of physics since then.Physical constants are still decided by authority, not by the authority of Paris Academy, but by theauthority of government agencies, such as the U.S. National Bureau of Standards.Summary: Coulomb faked his results and physics bureaucracy was happy to take it because it fit theNewtonian ideology.Please note: I am not debating whether 1/r
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law is proved by Coulomb’s experiment. I am exhibitingevidence that contrary to your belief not “every single one” of physics laws are discovered by rigorousscientific experiments.Physics propaganda still asserts authoritatively that Coulomb’s law was proved by Coulomb’sexperiment. Most physicists are not aware that Coulomb’s law was based on a charade and not on anexperiment. This shows how powerful physics propaganda is and how successful physics bureaucracy isin its indoctrination of new recruits into believing that physical laws are true laws of nature proved byThe three-dot signal on which Coulomb's Lawis based proves how cheap physics laws are.
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rigorous and unquestionable experiments. This is achieved by the well established pun that
physical=natural
Physics propaganda is built into the spoken language of every nation. I believe that questioning oldphysics dogmas such as the Coulomb experiment is a good scientific practice.You may say that “well, Coulomb’s law was proved later by more precise experiments.” This can bedebated. But your claim that all physics laws are based on experiment is not supported by evidence.Physics laws are ideological. Physicists, as in this case, use the experiment as a false witness to provethe ideology. This is what makes physics a secular religion.
Ideological physics experiment #2: Cavendish experiment
Physics propaganda claims that Cavendish measured the Newtonian constant G and therefore indirectlyproved the existence of the Newtonian force. Cavendish did nothing of the sort. When G was defined byNewtonian physicists in the 19th century Cavendish was long dead. It’s been known since the 1980s thatCavendish did not measure G. But physics propaganda continues to assert that Cavendish measured G.In physics historical facts are not respected. If Cavendish was dead when G was invented, physicists willoverrule historical facts to prove their ideology by saying that “Cavendish may not have measured G butwe can compute G from his data so we say that Cavendish measured G.” This is ideology winning overexperiment. Physics ideology says that Cavendish measured force. No experimental evidence canchange this fact. In physics ideology comes before experiment.What is more important is that the same experimental charade is still being taught as part of theNewtonian ideology to every physics student in a first year lab called the Cavendish lab. Toy pendulumsused in these labs are manufactured to oscillate with a given period. Students measure the natural periodof the pendulum and plug it into standard formulas and obtain the standard value of G and leave the labbelieving that they have experimentally observed the Newtonian force. For the rest of their physicscareers they will believe that force is an experimental fact. After all they observed it with their own eyes,they even measured it.No sane person can claim that those toy pendulums measure the Newtonian force. They do not.Cavendish lab is a physics miracle. It is taught as ideology. Here too an experiment is used as falsewitness to support the sacred Newtonian ideology.Note: Cavendish experiment is a vast topic and I’ll be glad to discuss it with you. But the point that I ammaking here is that physics laws and constants, in this case G, are not based on experimental evidence.Again, it is irrelevant that G was supposedly measured later with precision. I am saying that if asscientists we question physics propaganda and look into the actual experiments we see that physicsalways puts ideology before experiment.
Ideological physics experiment #3: Millikan’s Oil drop experiment
The fundamental quantity called charge of electron is based onMillikan’s creative cherry picking:An examination of Millikan’s own papers and notebooks reveals that he picked and choseamong his drops. That is, he exercised discrimination with respect to which drops he would
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