On 2/18/2024 at 9:26 PM, Capiert said:

The devil is in the detail(s).

Michelson was biased and you are biased too. Other people responding here are also biased because they now take what they learned from books as dogma. Not many have equipment at home to perform experiments by themselves. It's hard to get past dogma, or even imagine that you can get past dogma. That's why the best results (discoveries) come from young students who have nothing to lose in the scientific world. Once someone gets a reputable name, it is very difficult to enter a controversial topic and potentially lose all respect.

If you bought the required equipment and started doing physical experiments, the conversation with you would be much more fruitful. It is not very expensive. An investment of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Much less than the time spent on the discussion.

Edited February 20, 20241 yr by Sensei

On 2/16/2024 at 11:51 PM, exchemist said:

On 2/16/2024 at 10:31 PM, Sensei said:

Philosophy is a pseudoscience. Physics is a real science.

Philosophy is not a pseudoscience.

Yep. Philosophy is not even science. It is reflection on how we think, being it on the subject of politics, ethics, or ... science. See my disclaimer.

@Eise phileo + sophia = love of wisdom, in the distant past, with modern redefinition of this word, it is very hard to agree with it..

Many old, good-looking words have been redefined in such a way that they no longer have the same meaning as they did two or three thousands years ago..

ps. The marketing staff is even better at disgusting people for certain words..

 

Edited February 20, 20241 yr by Sensei

6 hours ago, Sensei said:

Many old, good-looking words have been redefined in such a way that they no longer have the same meaning as they did two or three thousands years ago..

Yes. And? If you want to stick to old fashioned meanings then physics is philosophy. Newtons 'Principia' is clearly a work of philosophy: it is even in the complete title. 

So. Can we just look what is done under the header of 'philosophy' in academia today? 

Or maybe I do not even understand what you are trying to say.

Philosophy is certainly neither pseudoscience nor science. It is also not football, chess, music, engineering, cooking, etc. I think that "love of wisdom" is a good definition.

8 hours ago, Sensei said:

@Eise phileo + sophia = love of wisdom, in the distant past, with modern redefinition of this word, it is very hard to agree with it..

Many old, good-looking words have been redefined in such a way that they no longer have the same meaning as they did two or three thousands years ago..

ps. The marketing staff is even better at disgusting people for certain words..

 

When are you going to give up on this crusade of yours?

Philosophy is not evil, jeez. 🙄

Edited February 20, 20241 yr by dimreepr

I like that ...

10 hours ago, Eise said:

It is reflection on how we think