The book also examines the evidence that supports relativity and quantum mechanics. It is the thesis of this book that the mathematics of a theory can be no better than the verbal logic upon which these mathematics rest. It is apparent that physicists have relied far too much on mathematics and paid much too little attention to the accuracy and consistency of language.
Michelson-Morley found no evidence for ether filling space, in Special Relativity, Einstein said that space is vacuum (nothingness), in General Relativity, Einstein said that space is something material that is subject to be warped by mass thus causing planets to revolve around a star, in quantum physics, space is said to be nothing and something (a quantum foam of particles is constantly being born out of the vacuum). Consider this confusion regarding the concept of space. Conceiving of these metaphysical entities as physical has led to the vain search for particles of space (space-atons, if you will) and time (perhaps time-atons) as physicists try to quantize space and time as they have quantized matter and energy. Although space and time are metaphysical concepts, they are treated as physical entities since Einstein’s relativity came to dominate physics thinking. Two of the terms that are often confused in physics are space and time. As an anthropologist who has studied linguistics, I am conscious of the way language is used in science. Among these notable physicists are Fritjof Capra and David Bohm who essentially said that modern physics is more similar to Eastern mysticism than Western Science. Some physicists have admitted that the physics enterprise is now more mysticism than science. Hence the book is about epistemology (how we know what we know), primarily focusing on language and logic as ways of knowing.
However, in reading Modern Physics, I have become more and more critical of the approach it uses, and I believe that the methodology used is unscientific and tends toward metaphysics and mysticism. As a retired professor of anthropology who has a strong interest in the philosophy of science, I am now pursuing a life-long interest in physics. This article is a summary of a book which I have published as an Amazon Kindle book.
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