10th December, 2010.
E-infinity Communication No. 50
The placebo effect in mainstream physics
The violent effect of the establishment against new ideas is well documented and historically well researched. E-infinity has experience just such a violent effect only on the internet which gives perverted maniacs the same voice as anyone and may even be hired by sinister forces to silence competition. This is definitely the same with certain blogs hired in the north of Germany as well as a small neighbor country to scandalize as far as India and China. This possibility did not exist at the time of Einstein’s relativity and his Nazi opponents, some of whom were Nobel Laureates. Seen in this way the hired, as distinct from the real scientific opposition against E-infinity is harmless compared to that against Einstein’s relativity (see for instance the article in Physics World, April 2003).
The main reason in modern times for the rejection of a theory and unfair competition is funding money. String theoreticians may be excused for thinking that the book of Peter Woit “Not even wrong” in which he attacks string theory on all levels may have been written on the instigation of the leading scientist working in loop quantum gravity. We venture no opinion on this particular case but we think that as far as the young, innocent, unsuspecting scientists go, the problem may be related to a form of placebo effect. You expect that a theory or a scientist is bad because your supervisor told you so, then you find it bad. On the contrary, if you are told by your supervisor, or thesis advisor or Editor-in-Chief of a journal that a theory or a scientist is pure genius, then you will find it really pure genius. This is exactly the placebo effect in scientific research. Please think about it.
E-infinity Group.
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