Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
Winter 12-1-2019
Abstract
It is widely known among the Frontiers of physics, that “sweeping under the rug” practice has been quite the norm rather than exception. In other words, the leading paradigms have strong tendency to be hailed as the only game in town. For example, renormalization group theory was hailed as cure in order to solve infinity problem in QED theory. For instance, a quote from Richard Feynman goes as follows: “What the three Nobel Prize winners did, in the words of Feynman, was "to get rid of the infinities in the calculations. The infinities are still there, but now they can be skirted around . . . We have designed a method for sweeping them under the rug."[1] And Paul Dirac himself also wrote with similar tune: “Hence most physicists are very satisfied with the situation. They say: "Quantum electrodynamics is a good theory, and we do not have to worry about it any more." I must say that I am very dissatisfied with the situation, because this so-called "good theory" does involve neglecting infinities which appear in its equations, neglecting them in an arbitrary way. This is just not sensible mathematics. Sensible mathematics involves neglecting a quantity when it turns out to be small—not neglecting it just because it is infinitely great and you do not want it!”[2] Similarly, dark matter and dark energy were elevated as plausible way to solve the
crisis in prevalent Big Bang cosmology. That is why we choose a theme here: New Foundations in the Sciences, in order to emphasize the necessity to introduce a new set of approaches in the Sciences, be it Physics, Cosmology, Consciousness etc.
Publisher
Eunoia Publisher, Indonesia
ISSN
978-1-59973-635-8
Language (ISO)
English
Keywords
gravitation, cosmology, aether, consciousness, new energy, vortex, subquantum kinetic
Recommended Citation
V. Christianto, F. Smarandache, R.N. Boyd (eds.) New Foundation in the Sciences: Physics without sweeping infinities under the rug. Malang: Eunoia Publisher, 2019.
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