Newtonian Physics

Taken as a philosophy – a scientific word which we take the liberty to use once the New Testament is “teaching” – the four Gospels of the New Testament, reflect an idea totally opposed to the usual scientific philosophy. And we daresay it is the only one challenging that of science head on. So if it is that there should be a hope that the science will come out from under the spell of technology, this cannot come but from such a philosophy. This statement has indeed deep roots in the philosophy that started the modern science. For that philosophy had as explicit criterion [more...]

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 [more...]