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This paragraph removed until Quantonics receives permission from FPS to publish Dr. Smith's original letter in full here. 18Jun2001 - Doug. Please see Scott Smith's original FPS letter here. By Dr. Smith's request we removed his letter's text which appeared by paragraph here for readers' convenience: i.e., side-by-side coverage and synchrony with our review comments. See his June 14, 2001 letter to Quantonics stating his concerns about our use of his original text and his concerns about Doug's viewpoints and perspectives. See Doug's June 15, 2001 response to Dr. Smith's letter. |
Doug is a member of APS and participates in their FPS. Our intent in reviewing Dr. Smith's letter is to try to show that his science is objective. As such his science is just as 'fundamental' in its perspective as organized religion's insistence that God objectively created our 'reality' 6000 years ago. Our position is that both modern classical science and organized religion share an objective mind set; however, classical science uses its objective mind set to worship physical objects, and organized religion uses its objective (via Aquinas, et al.) mind set to worship phenomenal subjects. As a result their contrary analyses put them in extreme opposition against one another, and we have our religious-scientific culture wars. Our solution to this issue is to recognize extreme ills of classical objective either/or thinking which we in Quantonics call Classical Thing-king Methods. In place of CTMs' we suggest more Bohrian, quantum, complementary, both/and Quantonic Think-king Modes (QTMs). We will show Dr. Smith's nearly pure objectivity in his use of classical language and terms. We see his language and terms as evidence that he objectively knows about quantum science, but that he does not understand quantum science. If he did, we think he would use more complementary, both/and language and terminology.
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This paragraph removed until Quantonics receives permission from FPS to publish Dr. Smith's original letter in full here. 18Jun2001 - Doug. FPS letter here |
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We agree that no ('scientific') theory can be proven. But we disagree that it can be disproven using testability and falsifiability. Why? Scientific method is innately incapable of achieving falsifiability! Why? Classical negation is subjective! It is impossible to 'negate' a physical object. Physical objects are non-negatable! Physical objects, instead of having opposites, rather have complements. A n¤t of anything is everything else. This is why Bergson, et al., are insistent that classical 'not' is subjective. Classical 'not' is n¤t objective, in any formal, radically mechanistic way! Further, testability is n¤t absolute. All scientific test results are uncertain! N¤ test result may ever be absolute, and worse results are always a matter of interpretation, and thus resort to opinion. Even repeatability is uncertain. We may only say that tests which are run in other times and facilities are analogous, never identical. Evidence too, is always subject to scientific judgment, n¤t absolute formal precision. Bottom line, science can neither 'prove' n¤r 'disprove' any theory absolutely! What is unique about quantum science is that it admits this either provable ¤r disprovable 'problem' going in to any test as foundation to quantum uncertainty. All test outcomes in quantum reality are both provable and disprovable which is analogous to saying "quantum uncertain." By comparison, classical science still deludes itself, as Dr. Smith shows, that it can disprove via falsifiability. Classical science thinks it can decide absolutely whether a glass of water is half full. Quantum science says you will always be uncertain. Why? Absolute quantum flux! |
This paragraph removed until Quantonics receives permission from FPS to publish Dr. Smith's original letter in full here. 18Jun2001 - Doug. FPS letter here |
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Too, there is 'mu' evidence which has little to do with Dr. Smith's quote. What is important here, is to distinguish twixt a classical scientific context and a religious context. Each of those two contexts have entirely different sets of assumptions (axioms) about reality. In some religious contexts Smith's statement about God's creation is provable. But only provable using those contexts' axiom sets. As Einstein said, "Only the theory decides what one can observe." Some religious theories decide some practitioners can observe God's creation as described by Dr. Smith. Others do n¤t. And we all know that science theory does n¤t. Our big problem philosophically here is that some religions want their axioms to be 'the' axioms for everyone, while simultaneously classical science or even general science wants its axioms to be 'the' axioms for everyone. Clearly Dr. Smith thinks that science's axioms are 'the' axioms. You can see this in his statements like, "The statement is not scientific." In other words, if you do 'not' use science to think, your reasoning is at best questionable, certainly "non-scientific," and we (i.e., scientists) will call your memes various appellations like, "absurd, ludicrous, nonsense, insane, etc." Smith goes on to do just that. |
This paragraph removed until Quantonics receives permission from FPS to publish Dr. Smith's original letter in full here. 18Jun2001 - Doug. FPS letter here |
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Let's list just a few "false" Newtonian and Aristotelian concepts:
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This paragraph removed until Quantonics receives permission from FPS to publish Dr. Smith's original letter in full here. 18Jun2001 - Doug. FPS letter here |
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Newton's mechanics is only a useful approximation within Dr. Smith's presumed set of scientific axioms. Aristotle's syllogisms and Newton's mechanics blinder Dr. Smith and his ilk to a much vaster quantumesque reality, a reality no single set of 'axioms' may ever describe. A reality which shall remain always, to finite intellect, quantum uncertain.
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This paragraph removed until Quantonics receives permission from FPS to publish Dr. Smith's original letter in full here. 18Jun2001 - Doug. FPS letter here |
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