Alice in Wonderland Physics
"”Why,,sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!”
The public in general does not know that within the Science Establishment there exists an Alice in Wonderland mentality among many physicists regarding fundamental knowledge and science. To understand this, one must realize that there are only a few physicists who utilize original thought (and they are constrained to apply their original thought only as “approved”). Many physicists actually know little about their field except what they have read in books written by other physicists, which they regurgitate with unwarranted confidence.
Oddly, many people are awed by physicists; the reason is difficult to ascertain. Perhaps, because the average person believes that all the hypothetical assumptions they hear being spouted by physicists are actual scientific truths. Few realize that physical science majors are no different while attending university than are other college students. A certain number crib from their classmates, determine what their professors apparently want to hear, plagiarize term papers from the internet, and buy reliable “unsubmitted” dissertations. Not all physics students behave in this way, but a goodly number have been caught in such situations. Two things are of paramount importance: keeping the GPA high enough to be a candidate for a Ph.D. degree, and appearing to be well-versed in evolution and heliocentrism. Another plus is having a well-developed verbal facility (that is, “a touch o’ the blarney”).
Nearly all physicists (of all branches) are adherents of the Big Bang and Evolution mythologies. Were they not, their doctoral dissertations would not have even received a thorough first reading, much less acceptance by any board that grants doctorates. To attain, maintain and advance in the more desirable positions in their field, physicists must continue to support the hypotheses of evolution and heliocentrism (especially astrophysicists), otherwise they will be relegated to “the back room” (if they are fortunate) where they will be working on projects having little significance to anyone.
When physicists first begin work in their chosen field, they generally follow the lead of older, established physicists; otherwise, they will find it difficult to hold a position within that field, get any of their theories accepted, get any books and papers published, much less making it past peer review (actually, that is small loss; such writings would most likely be merely rehashes of what others have written before).
Newly lettered physicists discover quickly that there is no room in the Science Establishment for private heterodox research. If they do not conduct all research along “accepted” lines and do engage in heterodox research, they will most likely find themselves outside the Science Establishment on their ear, wearing the proverbial Scarlet Letter. There apparently exists an academic and media mafioso that attempts to discourage, suppress, ostracize, threaten, and demote individuals who even start to show an interest in heterodox ideas, in blatant disrespect of the pursuit of novel human knowledge.
Organized pressure groups, chicanery, sharp practice, and jealous histrionics abound in the “altruistic” Science Establishment, all geared to prevent and discredit any research and experimentation that threatens the establishment “status quo” or is against “informed opinion”, especially in the area of today’s three “sacred cows” of Evolution, Relativity and Heliocentricity. [So, new physicists: Be ye warned!]
People in general believe they live in a world where reality is determined by irrefutable facts. However, their world has been distorted beyond reasonable recognition through the use of mystical mathematical models and other forms of deception. By contrast, many physicists live in an Alice in Wonderland world, populated by assumptions, hypotheses and theories, abounding with various species of computer models. The two worlds are totally incompatable, the one of reality and the other of imagination, yet the physicists assert unequivocally that their world is real and that the world of reality is an illusion. The motto of many physicists is: “I’ll see it when I believe it!” The mission statement of many physicists? “To shape the facts to fit the theories.” So it is with the Alice in Wonderland physicists. Fortunately, there are a number of physicists (such as Wallace Thornhill and Halton Arp) now striving to implant plain fact and truth to overcome the gross error and intentional deception of modern theoretical physical science.
Thomas E. Cobb
“When presented with two possibilities, scientists tend to choose the wrong one.”
--Halton C. Arp, Ph.D.