Newtonian Physics

Following Dr Cox’s show on the CERN Large Hadron Collider, one cannot be but amazed by the over-recurring stereotype phrase like: if the experiment will succeed then we may find that… and such. Wondering what the science became, one gets a neat definition from one of the guys interviewed by our host, sounding like (just quoting from memory): science is what we do when we don’t know what we are doing… Considering the way science is practiced today, one has to recognize that the guy was right!

On the other hand that definition might have rightfully been the motto in Newton’s times when the modern science was born – especially because we didn’t know what we were doing and wanted to know. If someone, after three centuries of evolution, is entitled to utter such a definition then we must admit that the science did not achieve its vocation. Then again, one must recognize that such a definition confuses the issues: our guy, defining the science, might have been thinking of technology, not science. This is certainly not what Newton had in mind, considering the fact that he was inspired by the works from old!