The Corruption of Language in Science
03 January 2018 | 965 Miles to Cape Horn
12:00noon Friday 3rd January 2018 ( UTC-3 )
I mentioned some time ago the corruption of language by the Climate Change Scientist. He follows on in that other great pseudo science Einsteins General Theory of Relativity. By adopting the probably false assumptions of 17th C Newton, knowing they were giving different predictions to actual observations, and combining this with a series of insoluble differential equations using invented but ill defined terminology he was allocated the title Genius. His real genius of course was that he never attempted to solve these equations himself, thus installing himself in lifetime tenure in the American Ivy League.
Being completely bamboozled by these insoluble differential equations and not wishing to display their ignorance by having Einstein himself point the finger, the equations remained sacrosanct till after his demise in 1955. It was only then that all and sundry had a crack at inventing even more abstract concepts and assumptions that the great Einstein Renaissance took off and is flying high to this day.
Einstein spent some time at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Prague and I quote below from Jiri Bicak of that institution. In case you get bogged down I will describe my repudiation first then let you decide.
Chandrasekhar lauds the solution by Kerr of his mathematical description of a "Macroscopic " Black Hole. That they in fact exist is open to doubt. That they be called Macroscopic Objects is totally wrong as the way they have been invented they have been allocated the property that they are invisible to the naked eye.
Macroscopic means " visible to the naked eye".
I rest my case.
<These tools became essential for the discovery by Roy Kerr in 1963 of the solution which, when compared with all other solutions of Einsteinâs equations found from the beginning of the renaissance of general relativity in the late 1950s until today, has played the most important role. As Chandrasekhar [59] eloquently expresses his wonder about the remarkable fact that all stationary and isolated black holes are exactly described by the Kerr solution: âThis is the only instance we have of an exact description of a macroscopic object. Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time ...â The Kerr solution can also serve as one of finest examples in general relativity of âthe incredible fact that a discovery motivated by a search after the beautiful in mathematics should find its exact replica in Nature...â>
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(1986) The Aesthetic Base of the General Theory of Relativity. The Karl Schwarzschild lecture, reprinted in Chandrasekhar, S. (1989) Truth and Beauty, Aesthetics and Motivations in Science, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
If you are wondering what brought this on its because I'm a little peeved at being practically hove too in 25+ knots with only the double reefed main. Any other combination brings on too many bangs, big or otherwise.