In my view, a focus on the results of scientists is becoming more important than the individual scientists doing the work.
With instant fact-checking and world-wide collaboration, science is, more than ever, becoming a true team sport.
There are certainly innovators and seminal thinkers, and they ought be acknowledged for their contributions. I believe the science must take front stage, however. The moment an individual is deemed unquestionable is the moment an impossible burden is placed upon him.
Einstein is a perfect example of this. Modern scientists and theoreticians hang all sorts of claims on him that he himself specifically rejected while alive. Large volumes of work have been spent pursuing avenues that had been signaled dead-ends decades ago.
But since Einstein said it, even having rejected it later, it remains on the playbook for many modern researchers.
Allow me to post a link that specifically details published, peer-reviewed and vetted work that has clarified, and in some case resolved, many of the problems associated with some of Einsteins work.
Anyone interested in this branch of the natural sciences will find this fascinating reading.
http://knol.google.com/k/einstein-was-wrong-falsifying-obser...
I'm confident that there are great thinkers to be added to the halls of human wisdom alive today, in many fields. Even if we don't know them by name, their work benefits us all. Keep supporting science!
Best wishes-
Lewrockwell.com is a correlary to Mises.org.
The focus there is on non-technical commentary, where LvMI is more scholarly.
There are thousands of media files, audio, video, and e-book, on every imaginable topic.
My first recommendation would be to read the best intro to "intuitive economics" ever: Henry Hazlitt's "ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON"
Here's an introduction to it
http://mises.org/daily/3000
Too bad I've been forced to pay a $10/mo fee for the past year for 4G 'access' when the closest place to 'access' Sprint's nearest 4G is hours down the highway.
Ya' pissed me off on that one, Sprint.
I have been here posting actively for a bit over a month, and had accrued 56 karma through that time. In a single comment regarding something related to physics, I posted a link to an alternate explanation regarding electrical plasma science.
The replies to it were vulgar, mocking and had nothing to do with science.
I lost 40 karma within a few hours. I was astonished at the vitriol and spite.
Looking at the post that started it all, I suppose I must have incited it by claiming that the experiment mentioned in the source article was likely to fail, which was the topic being dealt with in the source article.
Instead of responding on topic, the verbiage of the referred site was mocked, and I lost a months-worth of positive sentiment.
This site is no different than any other regarding malicious downvoting- people do it for spite here just like anywhere else.
Excellent piece. I embrace any message that points out the direct action by the artist to make themselves known, and find their listeners. Hail NIN and Radiohead! I paid cash to them for their music, and their effort.
I think the loss of the big labels as bullhorns for the masses will result in a far better mix of artists and auditor taste/exposure.
In the age of Pandora, I've discovered and absolutely fallen in love with bands I'd have never known existed. This re-formatting of the music exchange system is a wonderful one. Only the entrenched litigious scum at the dino labels are mourning these days.
Look, I've been reading the same science you have been for 25 years. I have excitedly followed every development from Hawkings discovery of black holes to Feynmans physics work to all the various string theory, dark matter, red-shift big-bang, etc...
I've been reading the same things as you have. I believed them too, as far as one can without any hard evidence. Even the people in this line of work tell you they have ideas, but few facts. When I found this, it seemed to actually answer, in a lab, no less, some things that common astrophysics can not explain. And it does it coherently, in a methodology that can be observed in a lab.
I love science as much as you guys do, and I think you ought to at least acquaint yourself with the plasma sciences, as they are amazingly explanatory of observed interactions both here and in deep space.
I'm not playing zealot here. Take the info as you will. But when I see a scientific explanation that stands up to scientific-method scrutiny, I believe it deserves to be considered in relation to other hypotheses that claim to explain events in a conflicting way.
People like Galileo? Einstein? Maxwell? Crick? Pasteur?
I apologize for offending sensibilies here. For those that are actually intellectually curious, I ask you to read the data. Read the data. Read the data.
THEN make up your mind.
Flatline, read the site. Read the links. I would never spam this site with wacked out bullshit. Look past personality here and read the science of plasma and electricity explaining, repeatedly, many questions that the popular hypotheses simply don't, at least not without creating mathematically abstract "things" that "must be there, except we can't see them, or measure them, or even prove via experiment that they exist. Dark matter and energy, for example.
The plasma explainations DO address these things, and to my critical eyes, very compellingly. Just give it your time, and be objectively critical.
Read the site. Why cherry-pick and post something to make the entire premises look foolish? This is not what I expected in this place.
I would not post this here if there were not absolute scientific work backing much of the work. Mocking the phraseology of the opening paragraphs makes you out as someone that can't be bothered to look at the evidence presented, weigh it with reason, and reply in kind.
There are huge flaws in the art as it is practiced today.
They aren't finding what they're looking for because it IS NOT THERE.
Go to the following site, and understand the gap between the fantastic but invented idea-chasers that are currently en vogue, and the scientists that are taking measurements and fitting the results to known phenomena.
This will change your view of modern science forever, and I humbly assert that it should.
This is my favorite read all week. Thank you! As an "idea writer" with plenty of notebooks around at all times to capture thought fairies, this is a freakin beautiful way to extend that practice and take it to many levels I hadn't even thought about. I will buy this book as thanks to the author and poster-
Cheers-
Allow me to post a link that specifically details published, peer-reviewed and vetted work that has clarified, and in some case resolved, many of the problems associated with some of Einsteins work. Anyone interested in this branch of the natural sciences will find this fascinating reading. http://knol.google.com/k/einstein-was-wrong-falsifying-obser...
I'm confident that there are great thinkers to be added to the halls of human wisdom alive today, in many fields. Even if we don't know them by name, their work benefits us all. Keep supporting science! Best wishes-