"Saying what needs to be said about the most sucky parts of physics"   #001 Now I know what the atom looks like. - Ernest Rutherford Ground breaking experiments lead to new data ...that particle physicists are quick to form conclusions about. In this case, all Mr. Rutherford discovered was that the atom wasn't a muffin. Instead of homogeneity, it had a nucleus. In learning this, he gained a 4-pixel-picture-of-Pluto. And nothing more. And so this quote perfectly sums up particle physics: Experimental results that conflict with non-fundamental endless-series-of-infinities theories* get shoehorned into "standard models" that are neither standard, nor models. #002 In research on bacteria metabolism we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the life of a household by careful scrutiny of the persons and material arriving or leaving the house. We keep accurate records of the foods and commodities left at the door and patiently examine the contents of the dust-bin and endeavour to deduce from such data the events occurring within the closed doors. - Marjory Stephenson, "Bacterial Metabolism" Physics is, at best, this effective. At worst -- i.e. in particle physics -- it is: "This house has regular visits by Bob & Carol, Ted & Alice. If we subtract away everything they did, we can detect new visitors." Kid you not. Particle physics is that impossible. That fictional. #003 A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea". Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground. - Elisha Gray Particle physics is built on non-fundamental theories. They have no chance of working. Particle physics is not only "all theory", but "all broken theory". There is no defending it. #004 After the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it, we physicists learned that we have to sing for our supper. The Cold War is over. You can't simply say "Russia!" to Congress, and they whip out their checkbook and say, "How much?" We have to tell the people why this atom-smasher is going to benefit their lives. - Michio Kaku Of course you do, Michio. You expecting a blank check? The strangest thing is that particle smashing -- offering no benefits -- is still funded. It shows how lucrative it is for the people who build and operate particle smashers. Billion dollar industries become self-sustaining, whether they make sense or not. #005 Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist. - Enrico Fermi There are just two things, in the entire universe. Springs -- i.e. the ether. Loops -- i.e. protons. Everything else is just some combination of these two things. #006 All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Ernest Rutherford All Rutherfordian science is either beating two sticks together, or collecting broken sticks. #007 Reasoning must never find itself contradicting definite facts. - Rene Reaumur Like when particles are supposedly detected, yet their half-life is less than the time it takes to cross one nucleus... - paraphrasing Alexander Unzicker The point AU is making? That it is impossible to measure anything about a supposed particle that is around that short of a period of time. And in fact particle physics is not measuring such supposed particles. They are, specifically, data-manipulating and extrapolating until the cows come home. To roost. On top of their golden eggs. #008 An experiment in nature, like a scriptural text, is capable of different interpretations, based on the preconceptions of the interpreter. - William Jones, "Physiological Disquisitions", 1781 tEmP theories are as they are because everyone involved wants them to be as they are. Even though they are obviously wrong; obviously broken. An experiment in nature is capable of different interpretations, based on the preconceptions of the SELL OUT. Sell outs are not going to solve this problem. You and I are. #009 Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature. - Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) This is true only when the experimenter is sincere, not corrupted. Such people don't exist today in particle physics. Today we have average, very average, people who are mostly interested in collecting a good salary. What the experiment reveals is meaningless to such people. Inventing particles, claiming "solutions" and promoting nonsensical theories are their main contributions. The real sickos are the "elite" scientists who are inventing and extending garbage theories, that the majority of physicists buy into (or perish). #RichardFeynman, #DavidGross, #MichioKaku, #NeildeGrasseTyson, #StephenHawking, #StevenWeinberg, etc. #010 Given a large mass of data, we can, by judicious selection, construct perfectly plausible unassailable theories -- all of which, some of which or none of which may be right. - Paul Arnold Srere (1925-1999) Yes, most fiction writing comes about in exactly this way. #011 Whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, smashing things up is sometimes very pleasant. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Especially when you get paid big bucks to do it. #012 God runs electromagnetics on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday by the wave theory, and the devil runs it by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. - [William] Lawrence Bragg (03/31/1890-1971), x-ray crystallographer Trust an atom-smasher to come up with something this puerile. #013 He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - J.R.R. Tolkien tEmP theorists have left the path of wisdom. #014 If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may draw the line at one in fifty, or one in a hundred. Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 percent point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance. - Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) Particle smashing experiments are so very far from this. They are literally sorting through the ashes, by discarding every recognized "particle", and then, with the dross that remains, claiming they have found a new rock. Holy Rollers are envious of tEmP theorists; self-annointed "gods" creating "god" particles. #015 If your experiment needs statistics, then you ought to have done a better experiment. - Ernest Rutherford If this nonsense were true, it would be the death knell of the LHC. The ultimate particle smasher. Ironic much? Remarkable that this bit of idiocy comes from a (in)famous particle smasher. tEmP theorists are nothing if not inconsistent. Like #Democrats. #016 In the seventh book of the Republic, Plato describes prisoners who are chained in a cave and can see only shadows that things outside cast on the cave wall. When released from the cave at first their eyes hurt, and for a while they think that the shadows they saw in the cave are more real than the objects they now see. But eventually their vision clears, and they can understand how beautiful the real world is. We are in such a cave, imprisoned by the limitations on the sorts of experiments we can do. - Steven Weinberg, Mr. Electroweak "Unifier" Dude Wrong. Experiments are not the future. Better models are. By the way, #DidYouKnow? The LHC costs 50 tons of $100 bills a year. Experiments are a great way for a small group to make 50 ton of greenbacks. Every year. #017 It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891 Particle smasher operations have mountains of data. Or had. They quickly discard most of it, so that they can get to the residual chaff from which will come their next "new particles!" Evidence destruction is always necessary. Just ask any criminal. #018 Most of us do physics because it's fun and because we gain a certain respect in the eyes of those who know what we've done. Both of those rewards seem to me to be missing in the huge collaborations that now infest the world of particle physics. - Luis W. Alvarez Everything good is missing from the fantasy world of particle physics. When you cheat, you don't feel good. Insert #TennisWithTheNetDown meme here. #019 No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. It is also a first step in our attempt to find the principles implicit in familiar observational notions. - Paul K. Feyerabend, "Against Method: Outline Of An Anarchistic Theory Of Knowledge", 1975 Careful with that F-word! Sub-atomic particle "facts"...aren't. By the way, it is never about "agreeing" with experiments. It is about predicting the results of experiments. Before they are run. Dark matter and dark energy are what happen when you "agree" after an experiment has been run. #020 One LHC can crank out the data of fifty ordinary physicists. No particle accelerator can replace the theory of one extraordinary physicist. With apologies, and a hat tip, to Elbert Hubbard. #021 There are 60 sub-atomic particles they've discovered that can explain the thousands of other sub-atomic particles, and the model is too ugly. This is my analogy: it's like taking Scotch tape and taping a giraffe to a mule to a whale to a tiger and saying this is the ultimate theory of particles. We have so many particles that Oppenheimer once said you could give a nobel prize to the physicist that did not discover a particle that year. We were drowning in sub- atomic particles. Now we realize that this whole zoo of sub-atomic particles, thousands of them coming out of our accelerators, can be explained by little vibrating strings. - Michio Kaku Ah, no they can't explain anything, Michio. Nice try. Michio Kaku is like Nancy Pelosi. Always trying to explain away corrupt thinking. Ah well, somebody has to be the laughing stock of physics I suppose. Michio Kaku has never met an insane theory he didn't want to have sex with. #022 Atom smashers are NASCAR races. Bang! Bang! Bang! The particle physics field is as theoretically sound as a junk yard. - Spring-And-Loop Theory #023 We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works. - Ernest Rutherford Rutherford smashed watches into little bits, thinking he would learn how the watch worked. Rutherford wasn't too bright. #024 We haven't the money, so we've got to think. - Ernest Rutherford Rutherford was famous for banning thinking -- theorizing -- in his laboratories. Kid you not. #025 We really try to have only one new particle per paper. - Patrick M.S. Blackett "Blackett spent ten years working at the Cavendish Laboratory as an experimental physicist with Ernest Rutherford." - his wiki Particle smashers are multiplying! #026 Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) Modern physics has zero interest in seeing nature in anything. In fact doing so would be highly unprofitable. As it would lead to answers. And the end of the need for particle smashing "experiments". #027 An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood. - Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) An unexciting truth will always be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood. #028 A fanatic is a person who redoubles his effort after he's lost sight of his aim. - Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) Every useless particle smasher that doesn't find those much-conjectured super symmetric particles gives way to an even bigger (and more expensive) particle smasher. - The Law Of Spring-And-Loop Theory #029 If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. - Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) Environmentalists having something valuable to say about science are less common than unicorn-riding sasquatches. #030 This principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. - George Polya The principle of naming everything we don't understand -- dark matter, dark energy, big bang -- is so perfectly useless that no particular value for it is possible. On the other hand, saying that all of life is vibration is the ultimate perfectly general statement, and one of the most powerfully applicable thoughts we will ever have. It is deeply ironic that a mathematician would be so against perfectly general statements. Those who can, teach. Those who can't, become mathematicians. #031 The new wave is not value-added; it's garbage-subtracted. - Esther Dyson Sadly this is exactly how particle smashers process data. Alexander Unzicker, who once worked in the field, is perhaps the foremost authority on the particle smashing con job. New particles "appear", literally due to garbage subtraction. By the way, why is Esther balding? #032 An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. - "Inherit the Wind" An idea is a greater monument than a particle smasher. It is more durable, more valuable and much cheaper. Which is why we have so many particle smashers. #033 ATLAS observes direct evidence of light-by-light scattering - Phys.org, August 15, 2017 "Physicists from the ATLAS experiment at CERN have found the first direct evidence of high energy light-by-light scattering, a very rare process in which two photons -- particles of light -- interact and change direction. The result confirms one of the oldest predictions of quantum electrodynamics (QED)." Where to start with this crap show... Two photons interact...whoop-de-doo! And that "prediction" confirms QED?! Ah, no. Not a chance. Ever. #034 [Particle Smasher] Scientists are fooling themselves with excessive filtering, triggering and background removal that necessarily lead to detections of poorly specified signals. Cosmology is the same way. - Alexander Unzicker #035 RSF interviews Dr. Alexander Unzicker #036 No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state. - Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974) Increasingly we are doing the opposite of this. The LHC is massively financed by government. It has to be, because there is nothing remotely related to a payoff that will ever come out of it. The LHC's purpose is to keep the particle-smashing lie going. #037 Statue of Lord Shiva, the cosmic dancer, at the plaza of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva has this plaque: "O Omnipresent, the embodiment of all virtues, the creator of this cosmic universe, the king of dancers, who dances the Ananda Tandava in the twilight, I salute thee." It is vitally important to mislead people, especially when your particle smasher is making billions while accomplishing nothing. So what a great idea -- put some random yet impressive looking thing in front of CERN. Oh, dogmas of science, we bow to you and give you money! #038 Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. - Isaac Asimov This is why particle smashers don't share how they arrive at their "new particles". Alexander Unzicker was the first to point this out in The Higgs Fake. Try to find out for yourself. You'll see he was right. #039 This result could change physics forever - Dianna Cowern, AKA Physics Girl "Breaking news!" 1.88 MILLION YouTube subscribers!!! 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