Dr Faustus of Modern Physics - Department of Speech, Music and ...

4 CONTENTS
6.5 Quantum Leap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
6.6 Quantum Satis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
7 Zeno’s Paradox 37
7.1 The Deadly Threat of Zenos Arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
7.2 Parmenides Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
7.3 Heraclitus: The Weeping Philosopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
7.4 Who Resolved Zeno’s Arrow Paradox? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
8 Wellposed vs Illposed 41
8.1 Small Cause - Small Effect: Wellposed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
8.2 Causality as Wellposedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
8.3 Pendulum: Wellposed and Illposed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
8.4 Small Cause - Big Effect: Illposed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9 Doped Scienctists or Science 45
II Modern Physics 47
10 Birth of Modern Physics 49
10.1 Contradiction of 2nd Law and Radiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
10.2 Contradiction of Missing Uniqe Aether . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
10.3 Contradiction of Zero Drag in Potential Flow . . . . . . . . . . 51
10.4 Cover Up by Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
10.5 Cover Up: There is no Aether . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
10.6 Marriage and Aether . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
10.7 From One to Many . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
10.8 Snapshot from Birth of Quantum Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . 55
10.9 Cover Up: Boundary Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
11 The Fall of Science 57
11.1 Causality, Determinism and Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
11.2 Violation of Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
11.3 Overview to Browse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
11.4 Planck: Last Classic First Modern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
11.5 Contradiction as Duality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
11.6 Microscopic Casino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
11.7 Formality as Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61