By exclusion of metaphysics, is Physics an act of pure impudent ignorance?

Question

Analogy: Weight Lifting:
To reach a goal, sometimes weight lifters have to do other exercises, (disiplines), other than weight lifting to attain a quantum leap.

Is it possible that Science in general is too ridgidly disiplined and by being so stifles it's own objectives, even perhaps at the demise of mankind by failing to reach for other disiplines to attain it's goals?

And, mathematics is nothing more than an instructional language, it gropes and is subject to error and supposed correction; correction being perhaps just another error that happens to fit for a fleeting moment.

If there is no First nor Last, for all is one number issued from no number, then would it be wise to reverse engineer such a statement to adduce it's Truth? And, is not the afore-mentioned exactly what Physics is attempting to reach for?

Is something from nothing too incomprehensible to be grasped by numbers language?

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible.

Answer 2

raymond, you're completely right in all of your arguments. Science is infantile, imperfect, and horrendously prone to error.

The only problem with your ravings is that Science knows this and accepts this. Science is only as powerful as those who construct and operate it, which (albeit) doesn't say much for it. However, what it DOES say for science is that it's willing to adapt and grow and flourish. It might be a slow, pains-taking process, but that's not about to stop or even hinder it. It will, with any luck, continue to develop and advance, hopefully for the benefit of mankind (though perhaps not).

Scientists don't claim to know everything, or really anything for that matter. We just have a lot of really good ideas that seem to be true most of the time. And we hope that we can continue to learn and to dissect the universe. We have no way of predicting the future products of our work, but we're optimistic. We've come far, and we might occasionally see what looks to be a horizon, but if history has shown us anything, it's that horizons can be deceiving.

Answer 3

Physics is a progression of metaphysics. Metaphysics is probably, because no one knows for sure, was completely made up by people to explain things (ie, legends and myths), where science proves things through experiment.

Yes, science/math does seem to stifle new thought. That is why there are so few great scientists/mathematicians, like Einstein or Newton, or Euclid. We should accept that thought can change. Remember, at one time it was common knowledge that meat spontaneously sprouted maggots... we know now that flies lay eggs from whence they hatch.

Answer 4

Your question barely makes sense at all. As far as I know, physics does not use metaphysics, and physics is one of the sciences we humans use to try to understand the universe where we live. It isn't perfect, no science is, but it's way better than ignorance.

Science is disciplined for the sake of being self-corrective: theories which doesn't work are amended or thrown away, bogus experiments are discovered as such and ignored.