Basic Questions Without Answers Corrupts Science

If you have a curious mind, you may have asked the following questions to a professional aerodynamicist/physicist:

1. What is a correct explanation of the flight of an airplane or bird?
2. What is a correct explanation of the twin paradox of the special theory of relativity?

If not, try it yourself! I have done so and met the following first response:

• This was settled long and can be found in many books.  

When you ask for details, you get (if your are lucky) pointed to a variety of mutually contradictory explanations, each one viewed to be incorrect by some group of scientists, but no explanation which is generally agreed to be correct. Many incorrect explanations, but no correct. 

When you point this out, you are met first with frustration, then with silence. This is unfortunate because unanswered basic questions, which are swept under the carpet, fosters corrupt science.

If you are curious you find answers to the questions on this blog.

Dark Age of Science

In my work I have found that

• AGW
  
• Prandtl's boundary layer theory 
• statistical mechanics
• particle nature of light
• relativity, 

share the following features representing a Dark Age of Science:

• many fake understanding 
  
• nobody understands
• original scientific sources obscure
  
• collective consensus supposed to replace genuine individual insight
• suppression of skeptics, criticism intolerable.

The discussion following the two previous posts gives direct illustration of these features 

as concerns AGW and my homepage, this blog and  Book og Knols give more evidence, for those interested in analyzing and understanding these aspects of 20th century science. 

It is natural to connect these signs of decline of science to the economical decline of Europe and America relative to the BRIC countries as observed in a recent talk by Vaclav Klaus. Collective fake of understanding of an economy without rational basis, may not be so functional.