Occam’s Razor as often misstated: The simplest explanation is the best

Occam’s Razor as often misstated:

The simplest explanation is the best

Full statement of Occam’s Razor:

The simplest explanation that accounts for all the data is the best

“Simplicity” is a pagan aesthetic ideal.

As Alfred North Whitehead said,

“Seek simplicity, and distrust it.”

What we may be facing…

“There is no adequate defense,except stupidity,

against the impact of a new idea.” -- Percy Bridgman

Paracelsus* vs. Aristotle

Paracelsus tore up his students’ work that were based on Aristotle, insisting they do actual experiments instead of

merely regurgitating Aristotle.

*Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541)

Who are the new Aristotles?

Albert Einstein

Neils Bohr Wolfgang Pauli

John von Neumannet al.

Have any of these new Aristotles retarded the advance

of scientific knowledge?

Albert EinsteinNeils Bohr

Wolfgang PauliJohn von Neumann

Have any of these new Aristotles retarded the advance

of scientific knowledge?

Albert EinsteinNeils Bohr

Wolfgang PauliJohn von Neumann

Louis de Broglie set aside his pilot-wave theory because Wolfgang Pauli supposedly blew holes in it, while von Neumann’s “proof” that

quantum mechanics cannot accommodate hidden variables

was revered for decades.

Had no one questioned the authority of Pauli and von Neumann, we would never

know today that their objections were unsound,

being sustained solely by the researchers’ well-respected

credentials.

Earth’s annual orbital motion around sun in heliocentric model:

30,000 meters/second

Corresponding acceleration:

0.006 meters per second per second

Earth’s daily rotation at equator heliocentric model: 463 meters/second

Corresponding acceleration:

0.03365 meters per second per second

V V2/R

Annual orbitaround Sun 30,000 m/s 0.006 m/s2

Daily rotationon axis 463 m/s 0.03365 m/s2

Ratio of annual to daily value 64.8 0.178

The $64,000 question:

What is

Aether Entrainment?

Aether entrainment proposes that the aether is not

detectable at the Earth’s surface because it is

dragged (entrained) with the Earth.

Aether theorists (those that believe in most forms of

aether) who are NOT geocentrists HAVE to have

an entrainment model to account for the data!

Let’s look at that chart again and predict where aether

entrainment has to occur for aether models to match the

observational data…

V V2/R

Annual orbitaround Sun 30,000 m/s 0.006 m/s2

Daily rotationon axis 463 m/s 0.03365 m/s2

Ratio of annual to daily value 64.8 0.178

V V2/R

Annual orbitaround Sun 30,000 m/s 0.006 m/s2

Daily rotationon axis 463 m/s 0.03365 m/s2

Ratio of annual to daily value 64.8 0.178

V V2/R

Annual orbitaround Sun 30,000 m/s 0.006 m/s2

Daily rotationon axis 463 m/s 0.03365 m/s2

Ratio of annual to daily value 64.8 0.178

The aether guys,like Lucy,

have got an awfullot of splainin’ to do.

The disproportions don’t add up.

Classical aether theorists could become the closest

compatriots of geocentrists. The barrier to this union is

their commitment to unfounded, unobserved

aether entrainment.

There should be a gradient!

There should be a gradient!

But where is it?

Without a gradient, aether entrainment ends up with superluminal entrainment!

Without a gradient, aether entrainment entails superluminal entrainment!

Entrainment: the 800-lbGorilla in the living room

If aether theorists cannot

(1) Account for disproportion

(2) Measure a gradient

…they must either abandonsuch an aether OR

ADOPT GEOCENTRICITY!

Coulson notes that the story of physics is simply full of changed models for space. “At one period space is a plenum, full of vortices or their equivalent: at a later time it is empty: then it is the seat of electric and magnetic forces: next it is an aether: under Einstein’s influence it becomes curved; the quantum theoreticians now load it full with zero-point vibrations and oscillators.” [sic]

Edgar Horsfield. “Aspects of scientific method in the natural sciences – physics.” Am. J. Phys. 52:9, 1984: 804-814, p. 811.

Physics is groping for a defensible model of space. As the previous quote shows, space has been theoretically imbued with a litany of attributes.

Geocentrists need to get their model of space into the

marketplace of ideas!

Selbrede model of the firmament:

LeSage with a twist

LeSage’s ultramundane corpuscules are treated as analogous to particles in an

ideal gas.

Mean free path is much larger than corpuscles.

In Selbrede model, mean free path is less than the radius of the individual corpuscles.

Density of this firmament is the Planck Density. Temperature is the Planck Temperature.

So what’s wrong with Wheeler’s spacetime foam?

“On Planck-length scales spacetime fluctuates mechanically so randomly and violently that it develops all kinds of microscopic topological structures, such as wormholes…. Spherically symmetric Minkowski wormholes provide a very simple model of a mode of topological fluctuation in Lorentzian spacetime foam, and suggest a mode unstable against growth to macroscopic size. …the whole…has no stable bound quantum states, and will eventually grow to large size by quantum diffusion.” -- Ian Redmount & Wai-mo Suen. “Is quantum spacetime foam unstable?” Physical Review D 47:6, 1993: R2163-R2167.

So what’s wrong with Wheeler’s spacetime foam?

The virtual particle model is unstable against decay into an enormous menagerie of topological monstrosities that would long ago have been detected.

REAL particles, NOT virtual particles, are at the heart of the medium wrongly labeled “spacetime foam.”

This is the maximon fluid of M. Markov that functions as a “quasi-isotropic space” reported in The Very Early Universe, edited by Hawking, Gibbon & Syklos (1983).

The advantages of ultradense aethers…

They confound the barycentric objection to geocentricity.

Such models enable superluminal rotation.

Such models undergird superluminal interactions and so-called quantum nonlocality results (serving as a deterministic physical basis for the subquantum domain)

Such models have important implications for gravitation and electrodynamics research.

Current state interpretation of the Planck Density.

Where geocentrists find themselves….

At the cross-currents of contemporary quantum and subquantum physics.

Solutions to gravitational anomalies (via LeSage model)

Taking seriously the divine creation of the firmament, versus paying the doctrine mere lip service.

Thinking God’s thoughts after Him*

*But better than Kepler did, to whom the quote is attributed.