Rethinking Our Science History

[Andy]

Just a heads-up for anyone interested either in science or just the latest big new ideas. I just finished an amazing and unusual read called The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacy by Mark McCutcheon, which does a complete rethink of our science -- where it all came from and why it is how it is today.

Before reading it I never realized how many holes there are in what we're taught, even just with gravity, light, magnetism and electricity, let alone more advanced areas like relativity and quantum mechanics. But I also never thought I'd ever find such solid, simple answers to it all in my lifetime, just by looking at the universe from a slightly different viewpoint -- everything just falls neatly into place!

The book goes through everything in very plain language with plenty of diagrams, showing all the errors and misunderstandings leading to wild ideas like "dark matter", "dark energy", "superstrings", "hyper-dimensions", etc., and replaces them with one simple overlooked principle throughout that clears up all the mysteries and paradoxes. And the inspiration for this new theory even came from one of Einstein's own thought experiments where gravity on Earth is indistinguishable from being pulled upward in an elevator in deep space. Very intriguing read!

You can check out more including a free online chapter here at my Squidoo Lens on Books That Changed My World.

[Laura]

Andy, have you read To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Khun and Sophie´s World by Jostein Gaarder?