Extraordinary popular scientific delusions
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2005
Phlogiston was a popular belief of the scientific community before the element oxygen was discovered.
One property of phlogiston was that it weighed less than nothing.
Look it up in Google.
But even though that was in the dim and distant past the schools and universities, who began their lives as religious organizations, have continued to retain much of their origin in both their buildings and their erudition.
I've shown in
http://www.rbduncan.com/.g3.htm that both magnetism and the expanding universe are today's extraordinary popular delusions.The problem of using such antiquated concepts as north and south poles which remain the same when reversed 180 degrees does not match the spinning electron that does
not remain the same when reversed 180 degrees.Having said that I'll not repeat what you can read about magnetism and the expanding universe in my other numerous papers.
And in none of those numerous papers, that I've been writing for about half a century now, have I ever told anyone that they should believe in the fiction-science of north and south poles and the expanding universe.
And this ends that particular line of thought.
What I want to touch on now is one of the worst extraordinary popular delusions of present science.
But first I want---if you have over four hours time to waste---to listen to Nobel prize winner Richard's Feynman's lectures by clicking the following link
http://www.vega.org.uk/series/lectures/feynman/index.php