How Science--especially Physics--has lost its way.

• Author: Brasfield, Becky
• Position: Science & Technology - Essay

WHAT WOULD you do if you found out that almost every aspect of modern theoretical physics is wrong? How would you react if you learned that the "experts" are more concerned with defending a position (right or wrong) than learning the truth about our physical universe? Given the advances of modern technology and the seemingly inaccessible intellect of the greatest minds of our time, you probably would find the previous assertions impossible to believe. Yet, that is exactly what has been unearthed by a systematic study of physical theory; the implications of this research are alarming.

While any academic field is subject to error, the nature of the errors identified in the field of physics are so blatant that one would think that they could not be ignored--yet they are. After presenting the errors to those professionally trained in physics, while none could contest the insights, none wanted to make a shift in theory. If physicists view a paradigm shift as a threat to their research careers, it should surprise no one that they would rather continue to work on potentially flawed theory than consider new ideas that might solve unanswered questions and move the field forward.

The objective of scientists with integrity is to conduct research that will make a valuable contribution to one's field. Yet, in physics, what we are seeing is a broad-based effort to reject logic and reason via the scientific method in favor of a controlled and constructed world view full of unexplained remedial errors.

In other words, blatant oversights and a recent lack of scientific progress in physics appears to be caused by the field itself. Such oversights include: the Double Slit Experiment never has been interpreted accurately, as the methods used by physicists to conduct that experiment failed to hold the variable momentum constant; the Dirac equation attempted to unify relativity and quantum mechanics 80 years ago, but never has been interpreted correctly by physicists as the key to the unification of physics; the pictorial claims of matter and antimatter are illogical, given that oppositely charged particles should be attracted to each other rather than repelled; and a discussion of the real problem with siring theory.

Researchers such as Lee Smolin, justifiably have questioned the study of string theory theoretical physics, but often, the critiques fail to address its primary problem--that it cannot be proved nor disproved because the notion of strings existing in nature has...