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What is Intelligence? 136
It is clear from reading the above article, that science, despite its great
achievements is in no way as “all knowing” as some scientists like
Professor Dawkins and to some extent physicists like Stephen Hawking
like to make out.
The above confession by the UK’s leading and respected popular science
journal New Scientist (i.e. the equivalent of the US Scientific American
magazine) is really staggering in its admission of ignorance upon the
major issues of all times, though this particular list has not even touched
on the “origin of the universe” question, which also is still under debate,
with the current thinking favouring “the Big Bang Theory” first suggested
by George Gamow.
The trouble with modern science in particular is that its practitioners have
the habit of deciding that when they have made some new discovery they
have found “the final answer”, or are just a mere step away from
discovering the “ultimate.”
But a few years down the line, somebody comes up with some
unexpected “finding” which rocks the current theories, which they
previously imagined to be the ultimate picture of reality.
Science has indeed made some marvellous advances, but we find that is it
often far more flawed and uncertain it its theories than the scientists like
to admit.
Throughout the history of science, amongst the advances, have been some
nearly shameless efforts to get the facts to fit the favoured theory at all
costs.
In particular, a large mass of scientists reject and label “heresy”, what
others consider to be proven fact such as Bell’s “action at a distance”
quantum physics experiment, in which two particles are apparently
proven to be interacting with one another instantly, beyond the effect of
any force or field science has ever previously encountered, which it has
long been assumed since Einstein has the maximum potential of operating
at the speed of light.
We were told by Einstein and convinced up until the Bell experiment,
that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light, and that such
instantaneous “action at a distance” was impossible.
But it seem now even Einstein has been overturned by Bell’s work.