Monday, October 10, 2011

Scientific truths

These are the truths of science today:

Antimatter and matter may not totally annihilate. What we observe are that the particles break into little pieces and than stop being able to be measured in the intrumentation (because we rely on electromagnetic science based techniques and observations to gather data).

No one knows about whether the Big Bang theory is true or not. Evidence today is beginning to point in some unknown direction and not towards the Big Bang. Remember that publicizing science requires the writer to make it sound exciting and thats why we keep getting grand headlines. Always look at the experimental evidence.

Einstein's theory of relativity is famous but not for the reasons the common reader understands - due to the plethora of books telling us commons science. The reason why Einstein's theory of relativity is important is because in his day, radar was the latest technology. In other words, the theory gave a methodology (through calculation and computation) of how to calculate the speed of something that had an electromagnetic field bounced of it.

Einstein got his nobel prize for the photoelectric effect ie how electricity can be caused by light. A photon is NOT a particle  (particle eg electron, proton, neutron, particles in the particle zoo). The reason why it seems to have particle like effects (but it is actually a wave) is because the tools we measure the photon with measure things as discrete (singular) units and this is by design (reason - due to engineering requirements and totally accepted as such by science - read Copenhagen interpretation). Photons are waves but as a friend said to me, the analogy of a wave can be taken too far - this is not water but the same as electricity. Electromagnetic pulses, waves etc work as they are observed to work (there is a lot of science behind this) ie electricity works like electricity.

Be careful about reading scientific documents you do not understand ie real science based literature - usually found only at Universities or science based institutions. The reason is that these are written for specialists and sometimes even the specialist write things they do not understand but mask it with jargon. The best literature are the easiest to understand because the person writing it understands the subject very well.

Being smart is easy. If you don't know something than say I do not know this thing. If you know something than say I know this thing. Only use what you know for sure. One (if lucky enough) can always find out the truth by studying it in depth - always better to look at real data.

We do not know much about genetics. The complexities in it are tremendous and by estimation we only understand less than 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 %.

Don't rely on the medical model to heal yourself. It is flawed because it makes the assumption that it knows everything about the human body. Actually it knows even far less than we know genetics. So when a doctor says operate, don't trust them - there may be better alternative solutions eg. warm beach therapy for viral skin diseases, vegetarian food as a cure for cancers (same reason as eczema and warm beach therapy for viral skin diseases, and it doesn't necessarily have to relate to a virus infection), cure for myopia using telepathy to develop muscular control over weakened neurological and muscular states of the eye, curing damaged body areas by massage eg loss of hair, bruised and damaged backs and other musculature (massage works as it brings the blood to the damaged areas - blood has cells and other materials that heal the areas - one has to  be patient as it takes time [ possibly years]). This is not to say that medical science has learnt nothing. It is just another tool in our bag of tricks, just don't believe all it says as its usually based on money or worse, poor doctoring.

Many old stories have kernels and grains of truth in them, even if it's just to provide perception of the system of thought for the time.

The bible and other religious books that are from ancient times are great sources of historical information. This is especially true if the religious book have good people looking after its accuracy. It may get lost in political nonsense but over time this should wash out over time.

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