150 Year Physics based on the Wrong Equation
Wim Vegt · 2019
When we look at todays Physics, we can only be impressed by an enormous amount of knowledge and a complete New World of technical applications that has never been in the world before. We now live in the century of the impressive victory of the new science and the new technology over the old-fashioned world and the old-fashioned way of thinking. Great changings in the way of thinking and the technological achievements are mostly characterized by an important scientific publication in a century that changes everything in that century. We can recognize the century of Isaac Newton who triggered in 1687 the large changings in thinking with his famous publication “Philisophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy).We recognize the century of James Clerk Maxwell who triggered in 1865 the large changings in thinking with his famous publication “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field”.We recognize the century of Albert Einstein who triggered in 1905 the large changings in thinking with his famous theory of Special Relativity represented in his publication “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”. Manifesting a “New Theory” and a “New Way of Thinking” with important contributions of Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and Hermann Minkowski.It is recognizable that with the suddenly changing in thinking in a new period, a new kind of mutual common sense and a general agreement by many scientists of the the new theory and the new way of thinking rises. The new theory becomes like a medieval town with a large high wall around it. The New Theory will be protected by common sense and mutual agreement. This new way of thinking settles down in the scientific society and become immovable. Other options disappear and simply do not exist anymore. Different from the alpha and the gamma sciences, the beta sciences are being developed by a kind of a LEGO system. Building blocks built one after another and built on top of each other. Like we build with the LEGO system houses and castles using the same LEGO building block over and over again, we build in the beta sciences grand theories, using basic the same basic equations over and over again. A large shift in the beta sciences happens when a new mathematical building block has been developed. Like the equations of Newton or the equations of Maxwell or the Schrödinger and the Dirac equations. These fundamental equations form the mathematical LEGO system of our modern scientific world. That is the fundamental problem in physics. When there is a mistake in one of these fundamental mathematical building blocks (like the 4 Maxwell equations) the consequences could be of a large impact.