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'PROPER STUFF AND NONSENSE'!?

W.R. Corliss, writing in "Some Mysteries of the Universe" in 1969 [1] noted that the estimates for the age of the earth and cosmos made by the foremost experts have varied drastically over the years. Not long ago the best estimates suggested an age only a fraction of that currently believed.

Corliss optimistically concluded by saying, "At least today's geological, astronomical, and physical clocks seem to be giving us the same readings; and that is reassuring. The clocks are getting better."

That was in 1969. But Corliss' optimism that science is getting closer to the truth about the universe we live in seems to have vanished. In 1986, writing in the March-April edition of "DISCOVER", he commented on the terribly complex theories that science is having to propose in order to fit observations into its established world view. He said "As the structures of the Cosmos and the subatomic world become more and more foreign to everyday experience, we have to ask whether such bizarre constructions may not be the consequence of incorrect physical theories, such as Relativity, the Big Bang hypothesis, and so on."

Such a suggestion is not at all popular with the "experts". The suggestion that their cherished theories may be wrong, that they may have been believing, and teaching ideas that are actually far from the truth, is not at all attractive. History shows that the experts practically never abandon incorrect theories. Occasionally a great man is prepared to admit that he has been wrong, but as Max Plank remarked "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." [2]

There is abundant evidence that many of the cherished theories of our era are "proper stuff and nonsense"...

REFERENCES

1.CORLISS, W.R., Some Mysteries of the Universe, Adam & Charles Black; London, 1969.

 

2.Quoted from Scientific Autobiography, Max Plank

 

This article is taken from Vital Questions, by Philip Stott, 1994.

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