Physics Without Blinders

Individuals who question the accepted laws of physics are generally ignored. More than that, they are often the subject of jokes or insults. On rare occasions, a kind physicist will try to correct a misguided soul. From a physicist’s viewpoint, such varied responses are quite reasonable. They do not believe outsiders can advance physics in any way. So, what is someone to do if he or she did the impossible? About the only thing such an individual can do is publish a book detailing irrefutable evidence and hope for the best. The other option is to submit a Scientific Paper to an official Physics Journal but, that is far less likely to succeed. Such publications never consider Papers from unknown individuals. Physics Journals only want Papers submitted from insiders like those working at major universities, large corporations, and government entities like NASA. Moreover, they only seem to publish Scientific Papers detailing the most obscure and inane ideas ever recorded. The thing is that precious few of those Papers advance physics. They do however allow physicists to say they are published authors which, is something that can boost a physicist’s career. Interestingly, the concept of the scientific journal is relatively new; a long time ago if a scholar made a remarkable discovery, he published a book. To encourage the physics community to examine the author’s research, this book begins with a teaser. It manifests as a challenge that culminates in a rather remarkable revelation in Chapter Three. If it is beyond reproach, which it is, physicists will have no choice but to read on. This is of course predicated on their willingness to set aside their blinders and egos. The challenge itself goes to the validity of something surprisingly simple that every physicist believes is true. To ensure that anyone can be a witness to a set of historic revelations, everything in this book gets explained. In simple terms, the physics only involves looking at how objects change their motion. Understanding this information will be easy, especially if the reader uses the proven techniques given in Appendix A. The author’s challenge involves something extremely basic, well established, and still taught as fact; specifically, it questions the validity of Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. The challenge begins by reviewing each of those laws individually and then examining them as a unified package. Shortly after that, the author takes physicists somewhere they never go and reminds them of those things they seem to have forgotten. Obviously, there is no sense in re-examining Newton’s Laws if we only visit the same places physicists have. In the interest of expediency, physicists may jump to Chapter Three if they think they know all there is to know about Newton’s Laws, momentum, kinetic energy, and magic. Yes; the word “magic” was placed in the same sentence as Newton’s Laws and it is not as strange or as crazy as it sounds. Consider the one indisputable similarity between a stage magician and a physics teacher. Magicians have been known to say they can circumvent the laws of nature. They then demonstrate this ability, usually quite dramatically. Some physics teachers are known for performing entertaining experiments showing their students the laws of physics are indeed valid. In each case, an entertaining demonstration “proves” a claim is true. Magicians use misdirection along with smoke and mirrors to fool their audiences. Obviously, no one believes science teachers or physics professors knowingly employ such tactics; they simply teach the accepted laws of nature. The thing is that teachers only pass on what they were taught themselves. If one or more of the earliest discoveries in physics was flawed in some small way and that flaw went unnoticed way back when, they might still be teaching the same faulty lessons today. If the reader does not believe this could happen, consider the standard relationship between a student and a teacher. The student, knowing less than the teacher, has no choice but to accept anything their teachers teach. If a student knew everything the teacher knew, there would be no point in being the student.