I wrote it i bit funny to make it easier to read.
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The shortcomings of the scientific method
Science is based upon the scientific method:
1 - build theory around observation.
2 - make a testable mathematical model
3 - experiment to test model
It gives great practical advancements.
Additionally: science does not really like models that are not similar to already existing models. One can look at the Egyptian pyramids or at the Electrical universe[1] to see that there are interesting alternative models and theories, but simply rejected because they are not mainstream and have some implications.
Science really does not like it when other fields of science are affected. See for example /r/QuantumBiology[2]
My experience is that new models are are only accepted when they strengthen already accepted ideas and explanations in other fields of science. Some scientists see that even as part of the scientific method. Why that is, is a totally different story.
But lets go back to the scientific principle.
It logically does not work for 3 things:
1- "things" that can not be observed easily and
"things" that have no clear theory of what it is.
("wtf was that?")
2- "things" that do not follow a testable mathematical model.
("nice theory, but how can we test that?")
3- "things" that can not be repeated.
("Nope..")
There are many "things" that fall under one of these categories:
1 - love/ chi/prana / UFOs
2 - dreams/ conscious / auras /ghosts
3 - afterlife
It does not mean that these things do not exist, but we can not understand them with the scientific method. So any research on it is by definition invalid science.
From the scientific method we go the other side around. We try to find models (based upon accepted models) that match with some of the effects we get from these "things". That way we get "explanations" for everything, but they do not completely match up. Then we have "explanations" why they don't match up, like "false memories", "chance", "hoaxers" etcetera. These do not follow the scientific method, but they do match with the other already accepted theories.
That is very frustrating for people that do see that these explanations are (usually) wrong. And the effect is that we end up understanding less of the phenomena involved.
And that is what this subreddit is about!
Things that are true, but not yet understood
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So let's look at the scientific method again:
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There it is. It is in a box. The physical world is fully contained within the scientific method box.
The $ signs could represent how much scientists like the scientific method or what the physical world is about. But it was actually the reddit editor that made it difficult to make a box like structure.
What is wrong? (besides the money).
There may be something outside the box..
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Oops..
Did we miss something with our scientific method?
That is impossible you would think?
What would be the consequences if this was true?
-> Most scientists would say:
"that means that our formula's are wrong?
Impossible!"
Let us look at the box again? Does something change to the formulas?
-Nope!
Then what is with the formula's?
- Let us look at maths for that:
x*x= -1
As you know this is wrong math.
But there is a definition to math that adds a *imaginary number called i. With the help of "imaginary" numbers we can still use our old formulas and apply them in situations that gave problems using "real" numbers. The combination of i and the "real" numbers are called "complex" numbers. The physical formulas are filled with "complex" numbers!
It is a very smart mathematical trick. We have the old numbers and formulas but add something that is "imaginary", so that we can compute and understand things that were outside the range of the "real" numbers before. The "complex" numbers are an extension to "real" numbers. Meaning that all real numbers can be found within the complex numbers. And using formulas in physics with complex numbers we get "real" numbers again.
With quantum physics the same principle has been applied to the original physical formula system:
A lot of physical behavior can be described as a product of quantum-physical behavior.
The same trick can be applied to this box-model of the physical world.
Everything within the box can stay the same if the physical world is a product or result from the non-physical world.
And that is exactly what I think: the physical energy and behavior is a after
product of chi and can be influenced by chi. Chi is again produced by conscious.
How exactly?
Well it seems that chi produces something that i call "frozen chi", which behaves like a physical substance and after time it forms photons and particles from which the physical world is formed.
But we are forming a theory again!
It may give more insight, but did I not just prove that the scientific method does not work!
Conclusions
By using logic, it is clear that the non-physical world may be real, but can never be described with the scientific method.
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Original posting on reddit..
http://www.reddit.com/r/paradigmchange/ ... ic_method/