Fields & Energy is an adventure story describing the long conflict between two opposing views of reality: atoms versus continua or particles versus waves. There’s also a conflict between two opposing methods of figuring things out: an Aristotelian approach in which new laws of nature are induced from observation, and a Platonic approach in which the consequences and implications of those laws are deduced from first principles.
At the end of our journey, we will emerge at an alternate view of reality entirely consistent with known physical facts and experiments, yet profoundly at odds with conventional wisdom.
It seems like the " conventional wisdom " in almost every walk of life is at odds with reality .
Maybe we should call it conventional foolishness .
At the end of our journey, we will emerge at an alternate view of reality entirely consistent with known physical facts and experiments, yet profoundly at odds with conventional wisdom.
It seems like the " conventional wisdom " in almost every walk of life is at odds with reality .
Maybe we should call it conventional foolishness .