Science at the Crossroads by Herbert Dingle (PDF)

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Science at the Crossroads was published by Herbert Dingle in 1972 at the end of a gruelling controversy with the English scientific world about the clock paradox in Einstein’s special relativity. It is still a seminal text, which allows us to understand and evaluate, with Cartesian clarity, the problem of that paradox for all those readers who find themselves in a widespread condition of having studied Einstein’s special relativity or received a teaching of it, and yet of not feeling comfortable it because the attempt to understand the logical connection of the parts with the whole did not succeed. Many have experienced this state of mind, and can admit it. In this way Science at the Crossroads is an important source of knowledge about Einstein’s special relativity and its historical background.Science at the Crossroads contains a great wealth of philosophical and epistemological ideas. The essay has a classic imprint, rich with sharp and clear distinctions, and very elegant in style. We meet countless research possibilities concerning the mathematical idealism of anti-classical physics after 1920 (assuming it is still correct to call it physics rather than metaphysics, as Dingle would suggest, as a partisan of modern science empirical method). Every page written by Dingle suggests research that could be carried out in depth, starting from what Dingle observes on the origins of mathematical idealism in Maxwell himself and his displacement current postulated to ensure the continuity of a given mathematical function, to end with the extreme tendencies of this kind of thought that were manifested towards the 1970s, as for example in the case of Professor Hoyle mentioned in the last chapter, who “has plainly stated his advocacy of the process of telling nature what to do instead of looking to see what she does”. Naturally, it is our task to continue Dingle’s research up to the present.The present electronic edition provides a Foreword from the editor, which informs about the basic knowledge readers are expected to have in order to fully understand Science at the Crossroads.

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⭐so far a facintaing book that should be a MUST READ for anyone, and specially those studying the sciences. Should be a standard in schools that touch on the subject and sciences.Maybe this can help those who do not understand theoretical vs real experimental science. This would also help us redefine and understand a number of MISCONCEPTIONS we have today.

⭐This book (1972 – rather old by most standards) is very depressing be cause of what Prof. Dingle is reporting.He describe his effort to get any criticism of the current dogma printed. “They” just would not have any dissent. Everyone know that if you even now the use of the word “aether’ in your title of your paper, it is rejected BEFORE evenread. He only talked about a few of the problems with relativity, where in “The Einstein Hoax” theHeretic talked about dozens.

⭐Herbert Dingle was a philosopher of science and one of the most knowledgeable people on the subject of Special Relativity who, when he later realised the theory was untenable and tried to do something about it, was roundly ignored and sequestered by an establishment which refuses to hold itself to the standards it publicly espouses. Science At The Crossroads was Dingle’s last attempt to get the scientific establishment to answer a simple question which, to this day, has not been answered publicly by any mainstream “scientist”. The fact that his very simple question (what differentiates between 2 identical clocks to make one go faster than the other, and therefore make the other go slower) has not been answered clearly shows that scientists today have no right to bear the name and certainly have no right to castigate the rest of the public for not behaving in a “sceintific” enough fashion on this or any other subject. In the first part of the book Dingle documents at length the evasions and distortions of scientists and academics, many of whom were prepared to admit privately that they agreed with Dingle yet subsequently refused to say so publicly. The second part contains a detailed treatment of the deficiences of the theory itself.Whilst easy to read and follow what is (supposedly!) a highly technical subject, the book is depressing and alarming in the extreme; this is exactly why Dingle wrote it. Today, in light of some theories that suggest the Large Hardron Collider at Cern may be responsible for some of the large earthquakes of recent months and years, it is of course not surprising that the ignoramuses in charge of this collossal waste of time and money crack on regardless with not the slightest heed to any possible danger, and this is the whole point: real scientists are supposed to stop and take a step back when someone taps them on the shoulder and tells them that the office is on fire. Yet the results so far from Cern demonstrate quite clearly that those “scientists” who like to play with fire at humanity’s expense do not know what they are talking about or what they are doing (“we’ve rechecked the speed of light over and over and found no problem”: how, exactly, have they checked & confirmed the speed of light), and this situation will only deteriorate until Dingle’s worst nightmare finally comes to pass. One hopes that the scientific establishment will wake up before it is too late; one however suspects that it is already far far far too late.Note: the book can be found in .pdf format in a number of places online.Further reading:The Big Bang Never Happened by Eric LernerThe Einstein Hoax by H.E.ReticThe Electric Sky by Donald ScottThe Electric Universe by Wallace Thornhill & David Talbott

⭐This is an excellent book. Herbert Dingle a professor at University College in London is one of the few people to get a paper critical of the theories of relativity (special and general) in the journal “Nature” (in 1962). One of Dingle’s most simple and basic criticisms surrounds the so-called “twin paradox” claim of relativity, that if one twin was moving faster than the other twin the faster moving twin would age less, by arguing the obvious problem that two twins could not possibly have two different velocities relative to each other. Dingle also identified (in 1960) the phenomenon where the position of spectral lines from a grating changes because of distance of light source as required by the simple grating equation n*lambda=2Dsin(theta), which is probably the best piece of evidence against spectrum line shift being due strictly to relative velocity (Doppler effect).Other notable and contemporary critics of relativity wer Charles Lane Poor, whose book “Gravitation versus Relativity” (1922) which I recommend, in addition to William Pickering who wrote “Shall We Accept Relativity?” (1922).

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