<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Tommy</i>
ANYWAY, my question is what would observations show if the Hubble-did-not-believe-Doppler-red-shift measurement were removed from the books?
A. No beginning of eternity
B. No Production of energy from nothing
C. No need for Dark Energy
D. No tremendously large stars
E. No need for impossible physics
F. The falsification of decades of scientific research
G. The loss of a million jobs
H. The loss of respect for science
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A. ?
B. yes
C. yes
D. yes
E. yes
F. yes. The best example is the use of the PRINCIPLES of quantum mechanics which are absurd. Evidently, considered as a phenomenology, quantum mechanics is good.
G. Not necessarily. Lots of useful works could be done in place of absurd ones.
H. yes
About F:
There are lots of falsifications in quantum mechanics:
- The wave-particle duality. The solution of this problem partly solved by de Broglie's "double solution". It is fully solved by the solitons. The problem exists only for (LINEAR waves)-particle duality.
- Quantum electrodynamics is absurd; it is founded on the identification of the energy in a "normal mode" of the electromagnetic field with the energy of a quantum harmonic oscillator. But nobody gives the definition of the normal modes for the EM field: Assuming, as usual that the EM field is linear (with Schwarzshild-Fokker trick), there is an infinity of complete sets. Some authors choose arbitrarily a set (Fourier basis, for instance), other refer to acoustics where normal modes may be chosen because linearity is a first approximation.
- Quantization of light. It works only for systems which perform a transition between two stationary states. When light or magnetic fields "dress" atoms, the absorbed energy may be very low and its result may be observed by Stark or Zeeman effects.
- EPR experiments, for instance "quantum cryptography", are useful to get money from bankers. Classical electrodynamics works always well introducing the zero point field and using 1917 Einstein principles for emission and absorption.
- Superiority of quantum electrodynamics over classical electrodynamics. Many beautiful experiments were done to demonstrate this, but the demonstrations require wrong classical demonstrations. All optical observations are done through detection of energy which is a nonlinear (quadratic) function of the field. Thus, to make a good computation, it is necessary to compute the field WITHOUT ANY ADDITIVE CONSTANT. Presenting at Berlin academy, a paper of Nernst in 1916, Planck recognized that the formula he gave in 1900 was wrong, and that the correction he gave a few years later was wrong too. Nernst's work was published at least 10 years before the birth of quantum theory which is said the source of the zero point field !
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