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Why The Supresssion

The Simple answer to the question of “Why the Suppression of this Unified Field Theory and its Historical development” seems to be that MOST people are just not mentally able to handle the theory and the issues that it raises, and are then acting in denial.

Instead of meeting the facts of issues straight on, when people are unhappy with those facts “they” tend to react by trying to pretend the facts do not exist.  (The facts of the existence of this THEORY exist in the scientific records, but few bother to actually look in the records, and then act by pretending the records do not exist.) This behaviour of the Human species is extremely strange, but seems very common place; this type of Conspiracy of Silence happens a great deal.

Thus the Conspiracy is --- a Conspiracy of Silence by the Mainstream to deal with this THEORY. And the Cover-Up is merely people saying the Conspiracy  does not exist.

It is as simple as that SILENCE, and DENIAL.

The  Human species has been engaged in numerous wars because of political, religious and other beliefs.

Despite some people wanting Physics  to be divorced  from these beliefs, it has been unable to do so; and has become part of the Warfare that goes on between peoples of differing beliefs.

The Rough outline of this Conflict is thus as follows:

Physics has been embroiled in Religious, Political and Philosophic arguments that it has been unable to escape from and thus confuse the Scientific issues. Different people have wanted scientific beliefs to justify their other beliefs, and this has made Physics a Battleground for ideologies that it has been unable to escape from.

It is my Contention that the Proper approach to Physics is from the Philosophy of Pythagoreanism. There are other philosophies and one could form different versions of Physics from interpreting through different philosophies. But I want to outline Physics as from a Pythagorean interpretation, hence a Pythagorean Physics.

Once faced with the results of an experiment we are stuck with having to interpret the data from a point-of-view; this point-of-view is a philosophy. The correct interpretation is Pythagorean. What has happened is different people have attempted interpretation through different philosophies creating what is Modern Physics based upon a mess of different points-of-view that are not necessarily always logically consistent.

Pythagoras was a legendary figure, whether he historically existed is difficult to say, and the type of philosophy he had can be traced back to possible other legendary sources. He had followers called Pythagoreans, who definitely existed.

Ancient people combined philosophy, religion and science all into their point-of-view; so Pythagoreanism was a mix of religious belief and scientific belief. I want to only emphasis the Pythagorean point-of-view towards Science, and exclude the religious things.

Plato took up many ideas of the Pythagoreans. One of the important ideas was that the Earth was a planet that moved. A “planet” in those days meant a star that wandered. Aristotle was a pupil of Plato, and went against many of the ideas of his teacher Plato.

One of the divisions that happened was between Plato and Aristotle. Plato’s point-of-view was seen as mystical, and Aristotle’s point-of-view was often seen as more practical being based upon observations, hence being scientific.

This was the first of many examples of defining things incorrectly. Plato’s mysticism was true science (when one excludes religious issues) and Aristotle’s point-of-view was not science.

In the case of the Earth’s motion there was no observations readily available to Aristotle and many of Aristotle’s later followers that the Earth moved, so erroneously they thought the Earth did not move. (Of course - later evidence of Earth motion came from Galileo+co) The Pythagorean belief of Earth motion was hence not readily based on observations, but rather on philosophic interpretation of what science should be like. This immediately clashes with some modern people’s point-of-view that science is Empirical; there are parts of science from the Pythagorean approach to science which is non-Empirical.

The three main Revolutions in Science are supposed to be Copernican, Einsteinian and Quantum.

In the Copernican Revolution it was a Pythagorean approach to science that latched onto the idea of the Earth’s motion. This was in conflict with the Aristotelian point-of-view that was being endorsed by the Christian Church.

Some of those in Christianity interpreted the Bible in such a way that it was telling them that the Earth did not move. There were other issues. But essentially the science issues that Galileo was raising was coming into conflict with some people’s religious beliefs. Eventually Galileo went before the Inquisition and had to recant his religious heresies inspired by his scientific point-of-view.

The idea that the Earth moved was banned by the Catholic Church. However, this did not stop intellectuals investigating this idea, and so the Catholic Church was finding itself in an increasingly embarrassing situation of opposing an idea that had a lot of evidence for it.

Eventually the Catholic Church backed down on its Ban of the idea of the Earth’s motion through the main influence of Father Boscovich. A meeting was held in the Catholic Church which decided to lift the Ban, and this allowed Newton’s theory to be taught in Catholic countries.

At the same time that the Church had a problem with the idea that the Earth moved, it had a similarly problem with the Atomic theory. The Atomic theory goes back to Ancient times, in the usual way that it is presented it is particles moving around at random. The religious problem with this idea is that the atoms are moving around without intelligent control; an intelligent control that would deem to be God. So, saying that atoms moved at random instead of being organised by a higher intelligence, amounted to denying the existence of the higher intelligence known as God; this was atheism.

Christianity had tried to Ban the Pagan idea of Atoms. However, with the Ban being lifted on the idea that the Earth moved, the Ban on the Atomic idea was also lifted. The Atomic theory that was allowed was that presented by Boscovich. Others before him had tried presenting Atomic theories, but Boscovich’s was the first that Christianity allowed free from charges of heresy.

The basic idea of Boscovich’s theory was that point-particles had a sphere of influence around them that influenced other point-particles; this sphere of influence was later called “field”; hence it was a field Theory, and Boscovich deemed there was only one field, hence it is what we would call  unified field. i.e. Boscovich’s Atomic theory is the unified field theory.

Boscovich also dealt with higher dimensions, non-Euclidean geometry, relativity and many other issues. These Physics issues were ahead of how far the mathematicians had got. i.e. it was Physics theory ahead of the mathematics it needed.

A large number of scientists up to the start of the 20th Century were working on Boscovich’s theory.

The Copernican Revolution had led to Boscovich’s theory; the Copernican idea of the Earth moving first being Banned and then the Ban cancelled had given us the Science of Boscovich.

The relativity issues had not been fully decided, there was Newton’s theory that was not able to answer those issues, and there was Boscovich’s theory which was acting like the next step from Newton’s theory and dealing with the relativity issues.

Einstein became famous for the relativity issues in the 20th Century. He wrote his famous relativity paper of 1905, and in 1919 famously had a prediction confirmed from his relativity theory applied to gravity. This was deemed a Revolution in Physics from Newton’s theory.

However, Einstein was still working within Boscovich’s theory.

Shortly after 1919 there was another Revolution in Physics of the Quantum Revolution.

This was really a reinterpretation of Physics from another Philosophic point-of-view from the classical point-of-view, and was called the Copenhagen Interpretation.

Einstein was opposed to this new philosophic point-of-view and stayed within the classical point-of-view, namely that of Boscovich’s theory. Although he was open minded enough to try other things.

Since the 1920s other philosophic interpretations of Quantum Physics have been proposed.  Some of these different points-of-view are dealing with things from Boscovich’s point-of-view; so that Boscovich’s version of quantum physics is partially reconstructed.

The Atomic theory was associated with atheism. Karl Marx studied Atomic theory, and the atheism he followed he created his Political Philosophy of Communism. Similarly Nietzsche based his Atheist philosophy from Atomic Theory.

This was Conflict in Politics between Communists and non-Communists. Part of that conflict led to Hitler’s Nazism. And there were other political conflicts.

Science could not escape people following non-scientific beliefs from interpreting science.

Einstein was involved with Communism. A lot of Atomic scientists in the Manhattan Project were communists. Eventually America in the Cold War era did not like the communists living among them.

Karl Popper decided to reinterpret the Philosophic basis of science. He was well aware of Boscovich’s theory. He was also well aware that parts of Boscovich’s theory had not been experimentally tested. He then formed his idea of dividing things into Physics and Metaphysics. The Physics part had been experimentally tested, and the Metaphysics had not been tested; so he placed Boscovich’s theory into Metaphysics.

NOTE: Before Popper’s reclassification, Boscovich’s theory was within Physics.

Popper was forming Physics from a different philosophic approach to the philosophy that had formed Boscovich’s theory from the Copernican Revolution.

I shall repeat there have been of course many philosophic points-of-view. So, Popper’s philosophy is merely one of many. But approaching Physics from his philosophy is creating a break with the philosophy that led to the Copernican Revolution; and as earlier stated I think that philosophy was the correct one.

Hence Popper muddies the philosophic issues around physics.

He is not alone, next comes Kuhn and his philosophic belief that Revolution is a natural part of Physics. In his scheme of things the Copernican Revolution, the Einstein Revolution and the Quantum Revolution are all natural parts of scientific progress and the expectation is of yet more revolutions. This is contrary to my point-of-view as stated I believe the philosophy of the Copernican Revolution is the correct one; the subsequent changes in the philosophic interpretation of physics are thus all to me merely wandering away from the correct philosophy.

As physics progresses what we get is more and more different philosophic interpretations and greater diversity of opinion, and an amnesia that Physics as from the Copernican Revolution is based upon Pythagorean Commitment which led to the unified field  theory of Boscovich.