The Physics Challenge

If the field of physics does not open up to critical viewpoints, it runs the risk of becoming a pseudoscience.

The physics paradigm today is based mainly upon the concept of c-square, the squaring of the speed of light in a vacuum. Numerous fundamental physical and chemical constants provided in the physics literature [CODATA] reflect numerical values based upon powers of c, the speed of light in vacuo. The speed of light in a vacuum is determined to represent the upper limit of movement of mass|energy by physicists. Yet, scientists carry this numerical value to higher powers of c, which have no material existence. The speed of light in a vacuum is employed in various fundamental physical constants. Generally, these different ideas in today’s physics paradigm are held without reservation among physicists. In fact, any critique of the physics paradigm is generally ignored or denied without explanation. In the author’s view, by defending the physics paradigm through denial, physics runs the risk of becoming in some regards a pseudoscience.

The theoretical implications of this analysis are far-reaching. They affect many aspects, especially the famous Einstein formula for the conversion of mass and energy: E equals m times c-square.  The author reasons why the squaring of the speed of light in vacuo represents a pseudoscientific thesis, one that is not based upon spacetime/motion coordinates.  Physics today, instead of becoming the long-sought after science of the material world, is fast becoming a pseudophysics, that discourages and even disallows any critique of its basic paradigmatic ideas. The paradigmatic ideas of c-square and higher powers of c are examined in this study as of the fundamental physical constants. A challenge is extended by the author to consider the need of a paradigm shift within the field of physics.

110 pages