Bankrupting Physics

How Today's Top Scientists are Gambling Away Their Credibility

Alexander Unzicker and Sheilla Jones, Central, 530 U63b 2013

"If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me" --- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

A curmudgeon physicist lambasts mainstream cosmology. Some misses, a few hits worth exploring. Pages of putdowns.

Unzicker seems more trusting of raw observational data, untrusting of the analysis and theoretical work based on the meager data collected so far. Me, I am far more worried about situationally constrained and time-limited observation, instrument noise, observer bias, bad luck, and the unidentified-but-no-doubt-present biases in the data we choose to collect and keep. Theoreticians should build instruments first, and discouraged from theorizing until their instruments stop failing.

• p46 Unfortunately, Einstein is one of those founding fathers like Freud or Einstein, who magically attract peeing dogs.

• p74 "Whenever possible, substitute constructions out of known entities for inferences to unknown entities." -- Bertrand Russell
• p77 "If an idea is not dangerous, it is not worth calling it an idea" -- Oscar Wilde

• p78 Dark matter manifests at tiny c/T_u accelerations (speed of light divided by age of universe)

• p78 'The dark-matter hypothesis is preferred mostly because the only other possibility -- that we are wrong about Newton's laws, and by extension general relativity -- is too scary to contemplate." -- Lee Smolin

• p81 ΛCDM -> Λ dark energy, cold dark matter

• p81 U.Oregon Gregory Bothun discovered a spiral galaxy 20x larger than the Milky Way in hydrogen 21 cm microwaves, no visible light.