Alternative Rocking
Dec. 19th, 2005 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianLarry Spring's Alternative Theory of Electromagnetism - seems interesting, turns existing ideas on their heads, which is always healthy. I particularly enjoyed the cartoon on peer review... I look at it slightly different though, and see the new solutions as solid and firm, and most of the waves seem to come from those who fear change. Anyway, any thoughts on the matter? (Any physicists read this?)
Recommended reading: Synergetics - R. Buckminster Fuller
Date: 2005-12-22 01:59 pm (UTC)If you want to read some interesting ideas about the peer review process and the general rejection of new ideas by the scientific mainstream, as well as the intrinsic ties between verification of scientific experiments and acceptance of credibility (ie: people will accept verification from "credible" sources even if it has been deemed credible only via social conditioning, etc.), then I would highly recommend reading Synergetics by R. Buckminster Fuller.
It is available in its entirety on the web.
Although Fuller does not corroborate any of Spring's experiments, he does encourage the kind of free-thinking observation, experimentation and open-mindedness that Spring & other alternative scientists regularly partake in.
URL: http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/synergetics.html
PS: here's a quote from RW Gray's website, the host of 'Synergetics on the Web' ...
"According to Karl Popper, the true scientist is someone who tries to contradict his own assumptions." - Quoted from The Memory of Water: Homoeopathy and the Battle of Ideas in the New Science by Michel Schiff, Thorsons, 1994, p. 110.
Re: Recommended reading: Synergetics - R. Buckminster Fuller
Date: 2005-12-23 07:24 am (UTC)