I like how the primary rebuttal is my use of a non-standard academic term on a public forum non academics read. Hear that unzipping sound? That’s reality itself coming apart because the Jedi Sacred texts were not recited from just so.
Really just proving my point that academia is obsessed with little more than normalizing symbolic logic. Such conservatism and thought policing is en vogue across social contexts these days.
I earned a BSc in EE and bailed on an MSc in elastic structures as such notions about academia seemed pretty obvious to me all the way back in the 90s. It’s all mathematical generalization of how matter coalesces at speeds relative to light, arguing for such specific recitation of truth is the problem: you aren’t owed that. The “human” language aspect is arbitrary to me, but often seems to convince the public some BS is immutable physics only for the BS to be falsified decades later.
Scientists do a whole lot of saying what they promotes them, damn the externalities. Has more in common with our economics in that way; can human scientists coupled to human nature to keep their meat suit alive escape such a bias?
I’m not anti-science, I’m anti-contemporary institutions. Only 14% in the US hold more than a bachelors, yet their influence is wide and deep, and (charitably) forever incomplete. A minority have outsized influence over everyone yet their so-called discovery is often restatement of a well known phenomenon or just wrong, damn the externalities.
Resolving all scientific inquiry (I’m sure someone will take offense such specific an idea can exist; academics like to flip flop between arguing for generalization and specificity like typical humans) would mean knowing all states of all matter and energy. Physically impossible, there will always be “holes”. Outwardly academia is dishonest in that regard, and the incompleteness of their work. IMO out of fear society would turn against them. Probably rightly so.
Science is important. I’m not anti-science. I’m anti-institutions manipulating the actually innumerate into serfs based upon (charitably) incomplete and more often than not, outright wrong conclusions.
Academics want to go on about non-experts being wrong and their egos. Well academics are humans mired in the same human condition. Turn the mirror around.
Interresting, but that analogy implies that there is a force that limits the exxpansion and a force that causes it to contract. I'm not sure that's what happens to this universe, and I'm not sure we can know.
