Re: SAVING PHYSICS: TWO POSTULATES

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From: bill
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 07:54

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On May 20, 3:57 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Physics is dying:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/nov/22/schools.g2
> ........instead
> of celebrating, physicists are in mourning after a report showed a
> dramatic decline in the number of pupils studying physics at school.

In their book 'The Matter Myth' Paul Davies and John Gribbin wrote
(22, Viking, 1991) -

"Do atoms really exist? Does the aether really exist? The answers seem
to be, respectively, 'perhaps' and 'probably not'; but science can
never tell us. Faced with this limitation, some people may prefer to
reject science altogether..."

Firstly - I believe that it was irresponsible for them to write
"...science can never tell us..."

Secondly, the term 'limitation' is, in my opinion, more correctly
described as 'uncertainty' or 'confusion' and it is this fact that, I
believe, has driven people - students in particular - away from the
subject of physics however it seems to me that many physicist/authors
deliberately foster uncertainty in order to restrict the number of
potential competitors for limited funding/job opportunities.

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