THE STAGNATION OF SCIENCE AND THE DEATH OF MAGIC
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THE STAGNATION OF SCIENCE AND THE DEATH OF MAGIC
Gaius Baltar Dec 23, 2023
Many of us have the feeling that the world is empty and sterile. There are no mysteries anymore, or magic. Many of us have a deep need for mystery and magic as demonstrated by the popularity of such books, TV shows and movies. We retreat into a more exciting and meaningful world of fiction to escape the grey and mechanistic reality which increasingly seems to be sucking our life force out of our bodies. We are told by all the experts and scientists that this is a normal state of affairs. They say we live in an age of reason; in enlightened societies where science has triumphed. We finally understand how the world works they say. When they say “we” they are obviously talking about themselves, not us. We just have to take their word for it.
Many people don’t feel this way at all. They bask in the enlightenment of our culture and seek the truth in the scientific consensus. They feel that we have moved into the light from a barbaric past, populated by stupid and brutish people. They focus on their lives and the self-affirming feedback they get on social media, and leave the thinking to the experts. There are no problems they say, and the world is far from being empty and sterile. There is no need for meaning in an enlightened world.
Many people don’t feel this way at all. They bask in the enlightenment of our culture and seek the truth in the scientific consensus. They feel that we have moved into the light from a barbaric past, populated by stupid and brutish people. They focus on their lives and the self-affirming feedback they get on social media, and leave the thinking to the experts. There are no problems they say, and the world is far from being empty and sterile. There is no need for meaning in an enlightened world.
If you are one of the poor bastards in group one, you are lucky. You may be unhappy and unsatisfied with your life, but at least you are alive. The other group is dead, without realizing it. They are to be pitied.
Perhaps you want even more than just mystery, magic and meaning. Perhaps you also have a passion for the truth and true knowledge and understanding of the world. That’s level 10 weirdness and you better not tell people about it. They might react badly and your social media account might get cancelled. You have gone from being just a malcontent to being a threat.
Now, here is the funny thing: If we were to assume that the human race is on a journey to discover the full nature and meaning of the universe and reality in general, how far have we come? A scientist may tell you that we are at 70% or 80%. An exceptionally delusional scientist might even say 90%. They are wrong. We are perhaps at 5%, or maybe just at 1%. Why do I say that? Well, let’s take a few examples of what we don’t know.
Perhaps you want even more than just mystery, magic and meaning. Perhaps you also have a passion for the truth and true knowledge and understanding of the world. That’s level 10 weirdness and you better not tell people about it. They might react badly and your social media account might get cancelled. You have gone from being just a malcontent to being a threat.
Now, here is the funny thing: If we were to assume that the human race is on a journey to discover the full nature and meaning of the universe and reality in general, how far have we come? A scientist may tell you that we are at 70% or 80%. An exceptionally delusional scientist might even say 90%. They are wrong. We are perhaps at 5%, or maybe just at 1%. Why do I say that? Well, let’s take a few examples of what we don’t know.
- Our entire civilization is based on electricity – but we don’t know what electricity is or how it really works
- We don’t know what light is
- We don’t know what frequency of light actually is
- We don’t know what magnetism is
- We don’t know why the Earth has a magnetic field – or why the Moon and Mars have one
- We don’t know how memories are stored in the brain
- We don’t know what consciousness is
- We don’t know how atoms are structured
- We don’t know what gravity is
- We don’t know how life started
- We don’t know how big the universe is
- We don’t know why the universe is structured like a central nervous system
I could go on and on. Most people don’t realize that we don’t know this, or how little we understand about even the most basic phenomena. Many scientists will pretend to understand some of these things – because they equate theories with knowledge. We have theories about most of these things – but in reality we don’t understand any of them. The truth is that we understand almost nothing about the nature of the universe and the nature of reality. Perhaps the 1% guess is more realistic than the 5% one. Believing we understand 70% or more is outright delusional. In fact, hiding how little we know seems to be the single most important goal of modern science.
Modern science truly does hide its ignorance. Theories are presented as facts and phenomena we don’t understand are explained by giving them names. Let’s take the standard model of particle physics as an example. It deals with three of the four fundamental forces that hold the universe and everything in it together: electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force and the strong nuclear force. The fourth one is gravity. We don’t understand any of those four forces. We have no idea what they are. They are the modern equivalent of the classical elements: earth, water, air and fire. But it’s progress – at least we now know that atoms and subatomic particles exist.
Why is it so important for modern science to hide its ignorance? To explain that let’s be generous and assume that our knowledge is at 5%. If we accept that as a reasonable approximation, it has a rather spectacular logical consequence: If we think we understand 70% of everything and have theories about it, but we actually only understand 5% - then only about 7% of mainstream theories are correct. If we understand less than 5%, then the percentage of correct theories drops toward zero. This means that most or all mainstream scientific models and theories are logically wrong and the only way of having a chance of being right is to be in disagreement with mainstream science. This is a simplification on my part but you get the point.
Why is it so important for modern science to hide its ignorance? To explain that let’s be generous and assume that our knowledge is at 5%. If we accept that as a reasonable approximation, it has a rather spectacular logical consequence: If we think we understand 70% of everything and have theories about it, but we actually only understand 5% - then only about 7% of mainstream theories are correct. If we understand less than 5%, then the percentage of correct theories drops toward zero. This means that most or all mainstream scientific models and theories are logically wrong and the only way of having a chance of being right is to be in disagreement with mainstream science. This is a simplification on my part but you get the point.
Theories to scientists are like honey to bees. They can’t live without them. They get no research money without them, no respect or adulation from their peers or from the plebs, and no (unwarranted) feelings of self-worth. It is a matter of life or death for them to hide how little they understand and how wrong their theories are. It’s not just physicists who do this – every single scientific discipline does this. You simply cannot admit you don’t understand basic things if you want respect and status. You are forced to lie to get them. This is what is fueling the incredible stagnation we see in western science. It is basically dishonesty, hubris, money and social status.
Fake theories and fake concepts are not the only methods mainstream scientists use to hide the real situation. They promote the abolition of curiosity by defining everything outside their control as “fringe science” and unworthy subjects – even though everything should be a potential subject matter of science. They camouflage their theories in extreme complexity and verbosity to prevent the uninitiated from understanding how bad they are. They turn every scientific endeavor into a gray and soulless wasteland, void of passion. They say that we understand almost everything to discourage the rebellious and the curious. They make publishing research papers the end goal of science rather than understanding and knowledge. They make science as uninteresting, uninspiring and boring as they can – the absolute reverse of what science actually is.
The stagnation of basic science is truly incredible. Little has happened in theoretical/basic science in the last 50 years and almost nothing in the last 20 years. Only applied science has made progress – i.e. science based on instruments as well as practical applications of (mostly old) science. The main driver of science in the last 50 years has been the improvement of scientific instruments driven by technological advances. The basic science behind all of it is mostly stuck. Now this stagnation has started to retard technological advancement, particularly in the West. This is obvious to anyone who has taken a close look at the situation.
Now, let’s go back to social status. In the last 20-30 years scientists and the “expert class” have elevated their social status to the level of priests in the ancient world. Scientists and experts are indeed the priesthood of the modern world and their priestly oracle-like status depends on pretending to know and understand things. They suppress and ridicule anyone outside the priesthood and they have turned themselves into Guardians of the Mysteries – much like ancient priests did. No one should even try to muscle in on their turf, or else…
This development has had a knock-on effect. Because the priestly status of scientists and experts depends on lies and subterfuge, they have automatically compromised themselves. Liars can easily be bought to lie some more, and that is exactly what has happened. Instead of only making up theories and concepts as ersatz for true knowledge, they have started to create completely fictional sciences on behalf of businesses and social engineers with deep pockets. Entire scientific fields have been created that are nothing but scientific fraud. There is a lot of money to be made, articles to be published and careers to be made.
This has turned into a symbiotic relationship. The scientists and experts lie for the social engineers and corporations, which in turn protect them and finance them. A well-financed propaganda machine has been set up to protect them by promoting their exclusive rights to science and knowledge, and by creating the concept of “scientific consensus” – the most unscientific thing in the history of science.
So, how can we determine if science is made up and fraudulent? The simplest way is to check the use of “models” in the field in question – although research can be falsified by other methods as well. A model in this context is a simulation which has variables plugged into it which can be selected at will, and “adjusted” (manipulated) at will. Models like that are rarely simulations of reality – their purpose is to create an alternate reality. They are fakes, and usually bought and paid for with some agenda in mind. A simple rule of thumb is that if you see the word “model” in a research paper – then that research is likely a fraud someone paid the researchers to carry out.
There are entire fields that depend almost exclusively on modelling – and are almost entirely divorced from reality. “Climate science” is the most obvious one. It is mostly based on models which, in the rare cases they can be tested, never work. It is completely agenda-driven and run by dishonest bought-and-paid-for hacks and imbeciles.
This model fraud is everywhere now. I recently saw a research paper which demonstrated that the covid virus could hide in the body for years, thus explaining “long covid” – another agenda-driven fraud. When I looked closer I realized that the researchers hadn’t actually found any covid virus in the body. They had found it in a model! What a magnificent discovery!
It can be said that the biggest progress mainstream science has made in the last few decades is its transition from ego-driven subterfuge to hide its shortcomings into a machine for outright making stuff up. Scientists and experts nowadays have moved into the reality-creation business like politicians and spin doctors. They work on narratives rather than knowledge. No wonder they are so cozy with our political elites.
Everything about modern science is an antithesis to real science. Real science is as simple as it can be and never unnecessarily complex. It accepts contributions and critique from anybody, not just from the initiated. It is based on individual genius, never on consensus and mob rule. It is inspiring and exciting to attract the imaginative and curious rather than the unimaginative and boring. It is impulsive and intuitive as much as it is methodological. It deals with mysteries of life, death and the universe and anything else you can think of – not “permitted” subjects only. True science is truly magical. It is not a sterile wasteland managed by a cult.
Now, if you are one of those miserable bastards in group one that I discussed earlier, there is a silver lining in all this for you. Because of how little we really know, there is still magic in this world – and a lot of unsolved mysteries. But if you want to pursue them, you need to steer clear of the scientists and the experts. They will try to stop you.
Fake theories and fake concepts are not the only methods mainstream scientists use to hide the real situation. They promote the abolition of curiosity by defining everything outside their control as “fringe science” and unworthy subjects – even though everything should be a potential subject matter of science. They camouflage their theories in extreme complexity and verbosity to prevent the uninitiated from understanding how bad they are. They turn every scientific endeavor into a gray and soulless wasteland, void of passion. They say that we understand almost everything to discourage the rebellious and the curious. They make publishing research papers the end goal of science rather than understanding and knowledge. They make science as uninteresting, uninspiring and boring as they can – the absolute reverse of what science actually is.
The stagnation of basic science is truly incredible. Little has happened in theoretical/basic science in the last 50 years and almost nothing in the last 20 years. Only applied science has made progress – i.e. science based on instruments as well as practical applications of (mostly old) science. The main driver of science in the last 50 years has been the improvement of scientific instruments driven by technological advances. The basic science behind all of it is mostly stuck. Now this stagnation has started to retard technological advancement, particularly in the West. This is obvious to anyone who has taken a close look at the situation.
Now, let’s go back to social status. In the last 20-30 years scientists and the “expert class” have elevated their social status to the level of priests in the ancient world. Scientists and experts are indeed the priesthood of the modern world and their priestly oracle-like status depends on pretending to know and understand things. They suppress and ridicule anyone outside the priesthood and they have turned themselves into Guardians of the Mysteries – much like ancient priests did. No one should even try to muscle in on their turf, or else…
This development has had a knock-on effect. Because the priestly status of scientists and experts depends on lies and subterfuge, they have automatically compromised themselves. Liars can easily be bought to lie some more, and that is exactly what has happened. Instead of only making up theories and concepts as ersatz for true knowledge, they have started to create completely fictional sciences on behalf of businesses and social engineers with deep pockets. Entire scientific fields have been created that are nothing but scientific fraud. There is a lot of money to be made, articles to be published and careers to be made.
This has turned into a symbiotic relationship. The scientists and experts lie for the social engineers and corporations, which in turn protect them and finance them. A well-financed propaganda machine has been set up to protect them by promoting their exclusive rights to science and knowledge, and by creating the concept of “scientific consensus” – the most unscientific thing in the history of science.
So, how can we determine if science is made up and fraudulent? The simplest way is to check the use of “models” in the field in question – although research can be falsified by other methods as well. A model in this context is a simulation which has variables plugged into it which can be selected at will, and “adjusted” (manipulated) at will. Models like that are rarely simulations of reality – their purpose is to create an alternate reality. They are fakes, and usually bought and paid for with some agenda in mind. A simple rule of thumb is that if you see the word “model” in a research paper – then that research is likely a fraud someone paid the researchers to carry out.
There are entire fields that depend almost exclusively on modelling – and are almost entirely divorced from reality. “Climate science” is the most obvious one. It is mostly based on models which, in the rare cases they can be tested, never work. It is completely agenda-driven and run by dishonest bought-and-paid-for hacks and imbeciles.
This model fraud is everywhere now. I recently saw a research paper which demonstrated that the covid virus could hide in the body for years, thus explaining “long covid” – another agenda-driven fraud. When I looked closer I realized that the researchers hadn’t actually found any covid virus in the body. They had found it in a model! What a magnificent discovery!
It can be said that the biggest progress mainstream science has made in the last few decades is its transition from ego-driven subterfuge to hide its shortcomings into a machine for outright making stuff up. Scientists and experts nowadays have moved into the reality-creation business like politicians and spin doctors. They work on narratives rather than knowledge. No wonder they are so cozy with our political elites.
Everything about modern science is an antithesis to real science. Real science is as simple as it can be and never unnecessarily complex. It accepts contributions and critique from anybody, not just from the initiated. It is based on individual genius, never on consensus and mob rule. It is inspiring and exciting to attract the imaginative and curious rather than the unimaginative and boring. It is impulsive and intuitive as much as it is methodological. It deals with mysteries of life, death and the universe and anything else you can think of – not “permitted” subjects only. True science is truly magical. It is not a sterile wasteland managed by a cult.
Now, if you are one of those miserable bastards in group one that I discussed earlier, there is a silver lining in all this for you. Because of how little we really know, there is still magic in this world – and a lot of unsolved mysteries. But if you want to pursue them, you need to steer clear of the scientists and the experts. They will try to stop you.
