Scientific Literacy
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a pointed observation here, but I wonder how true it is.
I grant that some of us need to be scientifically literate. Without that, our civilization could not keep up with things like vaccines against pandemics, while creating all other medical breakthroughs. We wouldn’t have effective anti-ballistic missiles, climate change mitigation solutions, a deeper understanding of the cosmos around us, and the entire ensemble of IT and communications technologies that make our lives even more productive.
Keep in mind, however that anything of importance that’s happening in science in the 21st Century is happening at the outermost fringes of incredible levels of specificity. What I learned about physics in college 50 years ago no more qualifies me to understand theoretical physics today than it enables me to fly to the moon in my Prius.
Another thing I would grant is that the 99.999% of us who are not “scientifically literate” in any meaningful way should respect the value of science, and reject QAnon-style beliefs, e.g., the flat Earth, the notion that COVID is a government plot, that global warming is a hoax, that Bill Gates is trying to enslave the population, etc.
There is nothing wrong / different concerning the Physics you were taught 50 years ago — it in how it is / was administered and is /was evaluated that is different.
Facts don’t change: evaluations and understanding, based on experimental results — do change.
For example — how long have you read that “over-unity anything” was impossible” – as dictated by the Science of Classic Physics as they understood it(emphasis on the last part of the question)?
The Science of Classic Physics said it was “impossible” — until they did it themselves at LLNL in 2022 and 2023 – when they were able to increase a set temperature / heat level higher than was the input.
And they came out and “said so” — eliminating the “impossible part”.
It’s up to “us” to take that information and learn from it.
That is why I’m asking you, again, to send the information on the POD MOD “over-unity” electric power supply that I sent you to the people that you interviewed for your book.
That way they will have the chance to evaluate the information — for themselves: because the “impossible” label no longer exists as far a power production is concerned.
The people you interviewed in your book won’t get the information — unless you send it to them.
Most of my problem with the physics I was taught isn’t so much that it is old, but rather that I didn’t get enough of it. It was all undergraduate, and I had one course in quantum mechanics; I got a C+ in it, and was the end of it for me.