35. Hawking’s scientific revolution

Hawking has the authority to spearhead a new scientific revolution; and he does just that in this quote .

A famous example of different pictures of reality is the model introduced around A.D. 150 by Ptolemy to describe the motion of the celestial bodies. Ptolemy published his work in a treatise explaining reasons for thinking that the earth is spherical, motionless, positioned at the center of the universe, and negligibly small in comparison to the distance of the heavens.

Ptolemy’s model of the cosmos was adopted by the Catholic Church and held as official doctrine for fourteen hundred years. It was not until 1543 that an alternative model was put forward by Copernicus. So which is real? Although it is not uncommon for people to say Copernicus proved Ptolemy wrong, that is not true. One can use either picture as a model of the universe.

In fact, we can use any model that saves the same observations equally well; not just these two models; and they would be as real. The only measure of success of a model is how well it recovers the database. In other words, the model A with smaller residuals is more successful than a model B with bigger residuals.

The other point Hawking makes in this quote is that; Ptolemaic model was paid for and owned by the Catholic Church; and the Church used the Ptolemaic model to prove its doctrine of the stationary Earth. Is there such a model today that a powerful bureaucracy uses to prove its doctrine? Yes, there is. We can see this by replacing the names of the actors mentioned by Hawking with their modern equivalents. Hawking writes:

Ptolemy’s model of the cosmos was adopted by the Catholic Church and held as official doctrine for fourteen hundred years.

The modern equivalent of this sentence would be:

Newton’s model of materialist nature was adopted by flag states as the official doctrine for over 300 years.

or;

The doctrine that nature is material and Newtonian; was adopted by flag states and taught to humanity as the official and true doctrine of nature for over 300 years.

The list below shows the old and the new actors and the models they use to define nature:

Owners:

Old: Catholic Church

New: Flag States

Inventors:

Old: Ptolemy/Aristotle

New: Newton and his disciples the physicists

Fundamental assumptions

Old: Geocentric Earth

New: Atomic materialism and its dynamical/ material worldview

Practitioners:

Old: Doctors of Philosophy practicing in the Aristotelian school

New: Doctors of Philosophy practicing in the Newtonian school

The list tells the story we all know too well: The powers that be hire professionals to legitimate/justify/prove their doctrine as the absolute true doctrine.

We need a new scientific revolution; this time around; to free ourselves from Newtonism.

As you notice; the power shifted from the Catholic Church to flag states; but the same professional class remained in power; the practitioners just changed their name to conform to their new overlords.

Now let’s look at the old and the new in more detail.

Power shifted from the Church to flag states

We know that the Catholic Church lost its monopoly on defining and enforcing a definition of nature to flag states with the rise of flag states in the 18th century.

Newton became the new Aristotle

Newton did not effect a scientific revolution as Newtonians claim; Newton staged a coup within the European scholasticism and toppled Aristotle and established himself as the new master of European scholasticism. Newton is the last of the Peripatetics and the first of the Newtonians.

Newton claimed to discover the hidden laws of nature

Newton claimed that his great discovery of universal gravitation replaced the geometrical world of Ptolemy with the Newtonian material world

Ptolemaic model is usually given as the example of a model that was turned into a doctrine; but who turned Ptolemy’s beautiful geometrical model into a doctrine? The professional doctors of philosophy who owned it; today the same profession is practiced by academic physicists.

What was the use of the Ptolemaic model to the professional doctors who owned it?

The professional doctors served the Church; they helped the Church fine-tune its calendar so that it could compute the exact moment of Easter. The Church dictated the doctrine and the professionals employed by the Church, used the success of the model as the proof of the truth of the doctrine of the Church.

Professionals who owned the Ptolemaic model claimed that the internal consistency and predictive power of the computational algorithm called “Ptolemaic model” proved the doctrine of the Church.

Using an algorithm (or a model) to make an astronomical computation is what science is about; using the same algorithm to prove a doctrine is a political act. This is one of the fundamental realizations that follows from Hawking’s model dependent realism.

Algorithm is independent of doctrine

Hawking is saying, in essence, that “algorithm is independent of doctrine.” But the professionals who owned the Ptolemaic model claimed that because their model made good astronomical predictions; the doctrine of the stationary earth must be the only truth. With hindsight; these professional doctors look like professional hoaxers who blocked the progress of knowledge for their own benefit.

Today Newtonian physicists claim that because their model makes good predictions, Newtonian atomic materialism must be the only truth.

Physicists claim to prove their doctrine with the algorithm; this is the quientessential pre-scientific hoax. Any time you see a professional class claiming to prove their doctrine with an algorithm, you know that they are practicing charlatanism or shamanism. Physicists are the new scientific hoaxers.

The professional hoax has not changed for thousands of years

This is the same professional hoax used by the previous generation of doctors of philosophy working for the Church. When the Church lost its power and authority to enforce its own calendar, the professional doctors switched their allegiance to flag states.

Whatever they call themselves popularly; “natural philosophers,” “physicists” or “theoretical physicists”; these professionals are the learned doctors of philosophy who are the direct descendants of Peripatetic doctors against whom Galileo initiated the original scientific revolution; academic physicists are the anti-science incarnate.

Follow the money; and look at who pays academic physicists for doing what. Doctors of physics are paid by Big School to doctor reality to confirm the doctrine of flag states.

Rulers may change but the class of learned professionals employed by rulers remains the same

In our day; scientific revolution means exposing the “professional hoax” perpetuated by doctors of philosophy to program people’s mind to perceive nature as Newtonian. We are the people whose perception of nature is defined by professional doctors of physics who work for the flag states. We are the people who are taught, without our knowledge, the doctrines of a powerful bureaucracy; that bureaucracy used to be the Church; now it is the flag states.

Hawking is not saying anything new; and you do not need to be a doctor of physics to come up with the idea of “model dependent realism”.

Hawking’s quote is the denial of the entire materialist physics! Physicists have been asserting since Newton that they have in their possession the true laws of nature; and now Hawking, the most famous of all physicists after Newton; is saying that; NO; physics is just one of infinitely many models that are possible to describe nature.

This is a revolution; a revolution against academic physics; a call to arms to take the castle of physics from within.

Hawking is repeating our worldview that nature is definitional; nature is not material. Hawking has finally seen the light and repeating to the world the fundamental idea of this book.

What is also important is that Hawking admits that the study of nature is not a “physical” endeavor. The word “physical” used in this quote is totally decorative; physicists like to put the word “physical” in front of any word by habit; without the word “physical,” the meaning of the quote remains the same:

the idea that a [] theory or world is a model (generally of a mathematical nature) and a set of rules that connect the elements of the model to observations.

So we have to ask “Why did you have to get a doctorate in physics to realize that nature is definitional; Doctor Hawking?” But congratulations to you anyway. Keep up the good work.

Will Hawking’s realization change physics in the right direction? Of course not.

What Hawking is saying now has been known to “scientists” since ancient times; but Hawking has the authority to make this scientific view of nature finally available to everyone.

I put “scientists” in quotes; because “priests” who have been perpetuating and enforcing Newtonism and helping it become the state religion all over the world are academic “physicists” who present themselves to the general public as “scientists.” Now they are exposed by one of their bretheren.

Academic physicists are the anti-science incarnate

Scientific revolution means toppling the professional doctors so that the information they hide from you becomes available again.

Internet was pregnant with a scientific revolution and it is happenning now.