Reply To: Plan B for Focus Fusion

[Steven Sesselmann]

asymmertic_implosion wrote: I wouldn’t toss out the old knowledge yet, but I am up for looking at old things in a new light.

I agree, we need to retain our pre-existing knowledge, just suppose a different and hopefully simpler theory to explain the world.

My thoughts at the moment are leaning towards a world that is completely governed by electrostatic potential, where all four forces are explained by a single parameter. Say goodbye to gravity, strong force, weak force, and electromagnetic force. Further, the whole concept of force is wrong, no object is ever pushed or pulled by another object, stuff simply moves from the past to the future along the arrow of time.

Anyone who comes up with a new theory will face an uphill battle to get it accepted, established thought is thoroughly embedded. People who choose to work in science are often conservative introverts, and people who launch new ideas are often extrovert, which may explain why it takes so long between each new revolution in science. In a funny kind of a way, Einstein was a scientist and also a bit of an extrovert, and managed to sell his ideas to the world.

Step 1 is to find a problem that needs a new theory (easy)
Step 2 is to propose a theory that explains the problem (difficult)
Step 3 is to propose and experiment to prove it (usually very difficult)

Steven