Tom,
And you do yourself a disservice in not recognizing the humanity in science. What is theory and experiment, but formalizations of imagination and curiosity? The problems are not of corruption, but the necessary strictures and structures of institutionalization and that at the birth of such systems is when there is both the most freedom and consequently the most ignorance. Consider the qwerty keyboard, for example. It was designed when the mechanism of early typewriters were at their most primitive and so its primary function was to keep keys from sticking. Once adopted, there was never sufficient need to overcome the inertia of all those schooled to use it.
Now consider Relativity and Quantum Mechanics; They were both formulated to solve several highly complex and abstract relationships. Now in order for anyone to even begin to understand them, far more eduction than that needed to become a typist is required.
Does that create a situation where it is inevitable that those learning these models are not going to have the time, encouragement, cooperation and or personal need to seriously consider what natural biases might have been built into these models?
As with any such large endeavor, such guidance has to come from the top and as you point out, there is no such executive function in science. So it will operate as nature always does, allow it to build up until the structural faults become too great to support what it is required to hold. Then in the aftermath, the freedom to start over again will be assisted by the additional knowledge acquired.
John,
I don't get to point this out much, since few seem willing to consider what I'm trying to say, but if we consider time as an effect of action, the dichotomy is built in. As Newton said, "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Our context balances our actions.
We, especially in western philosophy, have this notion of time as a linear progression from past to future events, but as I keep pointing out, the cause of this effect is that action creates and dissolves these events, such that it is they which go from future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday because the earth turns.
So now the energy of which these events are manifested, is conserved. The consequence is that while events and the forms expressed, go from start to finish, the energy manifesting them is going onto the next form/event. So form moves to the past, while energy moves to the future.
Regards,
John M
