16 Lessons of Great
Scientific Discovery
Some lessons on making a great discovery in
science. These are lessons I wish I would have been able to tell myself about 7
years ago. I hope they can help you.
1.
It is not a great discovery
until it is accepted as being a great discovery.
Until then, it is shit, and you will be a
crackpot for all eternity until the majority of other scientists finally accept
it as being true. Until it is fully accepted and written in textbooks you will
remain some random internet crank.
2. Other scientists are not going to help you work on it.
Just because you make a great discovery does
not mean actual working scientists are going to help you. Refer to #1. They cannot
be bothered with internet cranks, it makes them look bad, and can possibly (and
has in some cases) jeopardize #4. Which is really strange, they won’t even help
you develop it even with the ability to be anonymous online.
3.
Other “cranks” are
not going to help you work on it.
Being able to see nonsense of establishment
astronomy is not easy, but assuming that other people who also see the nonsense
will understand your ideas, or even help you is wishful thinking. You’re on
your own for the most part.
4.
Working scientists
place their income above science.
Working scientists want people to believe it
is their science that comes first and getting paid second, in fact it is
opposite. It is their ability to gain funds and get paid that comes before
science. The science is secondary. We live in a capitalist society, the power
of the almighty dollar rules supreme. Don’t let propaganda and big science
evangelists try to convince you otherwise. They are getting paid hundreds of
thousands of dollars a year. The science prizes are worse. The huge “big
science” projects hold the largest prospect for catastrophe. You better find
what you are given hundreds of millions of dollars to find, or else you’re out
of a job.
5.
Do not listen to
critics.
Simple. You don’t have to completely ignore
them, just don’t take what they have to say to heart. They are full of poison
in their own hearts and are critical of most things in life, in general, and a
great discovery would be far beyond their emotional ability to process. Most
critics you run into will have severe emotional disabilities and probably have
personal internal struggles with depression and hatred for others anyways. They
don’t possess the ability to judge others’ ideas, as they probably cannot even
manage their own lives. Do not let their internal hate inside you, it is just poison
and will make you feel absolutely rotten.
6.
DO NOT waste time by
trying to convince people of the idea.
People do their own convincing. Spread the
word on forums and get papers uploaded onto free archiving programs like
vixra.org and such, but do not engage most people. They will make life
miserable and repetitious. It is like that saying, don’t throw your pearls
before swine, they’ll just trample upon them not recognizing their value. Or
even, don’t try to teach a pig to sing, you’ll just annoy the pig and frustrate
yourself. Or this one, don’t roll around in the mud with pigs (argue online),
the pigs enjoy it and you just get all dirty and end up smelling like garbage.
7.
Do not try to explain
the discovery to family and friends.
Just work on it in silence and pretend nothing important happened. It
will be surprising how apathetic people who you love and care about will be
towards the discovery. It is disheartening, but the truth is just because they
love and care about you, does not mean they will share the same passion.
8.
Do not talk about the
discovery with potential girlfriends or on the dating scene.
Women you will date will not care and for
good reason. They are looking at the whole package, at all of your
strengths/weaknesses right now, not just some random event that happened in the
past, that has no bearing on your current lifestyle/personality/income/communication
skills, etc. Only bring it up to them long after you have been together, or
maybe never. A woman’s heart is more valuable than a major scientific
discovery, especially since you are only a vessel now.
9.
You are just a vessel
now.
You are the hole in the dam, not exactly
flood gate material, but you’re there and the water is ripping through you like
rocket exhaust. You are the lightning rod. You are the person on the end of the
radio getting information for an airstrike on a hostile force. All the
information you receive has to pass THROUGH YOU and as quick as possible to
enact change. This means do not attach your ego to it, that will make life oh,
so very difficult and emotionally disturbing. This meaning you have to let go
and let the ideas flow, if you do not let the ideas flow out of your brain and
onto paper, they will collect and severely impact your life. You will become so
absent minded and forgetful people will think you have a drug problem, or
worse, some type of serious mental disease such as schizophrenia.
10. Therapists will not be able to help you in your struggles.
I went to therapists to try to talk to them
to help with my emotional struggles with this idea. It will be of no use. They
are always trying to classify your personal, real struggles as being based on
some past abuse, or mental disorder, or whatever. None just want to listen to
fantastic events from real people talking about life from a healthy perspective.
They just give you the, “yes, I’m listening” nods, but really could give a shit
less about either the discovery or your management of it.
11.
Talk about it on a
youtube vlog or even blog about it if you’re not about all the camera stuff.
Talking about the discovery is extremely
cathartic and helps to organize your mind. Plus it connects with others so that
they know you are a real person, and not some internet troll (which you will be
accused of quite a lot). Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. It is better to
get the idea out there and get ridiculed for it, than not talk about it at all,
esp. if it is an extremely important discovery.
12.
Do not assume people
will understand it, even if it truly is easy to understand.
What this means is that no matter how well
you explain it, no matter how simple it is, some people just won’t get it. It
is not your fault. People hold false knowledge in their minds as to how the
stars operate due to years of institutionalization by giant universities, and
even primary and secondary school. False knowledge has a habit of remaining
long after it has been replaced. So their ability to understand will not be
dependent on how easy it is to understand, but because they have accepted ideas
that are preventing them from understanding. You cannot fill a cup that is
already full, and as a former Jarhead, I assure you, before the discovery was
made, my cup was quite empty. That by far was/is my greatest strength as a
scientist. My scientific bias is almost non-existent. Establishment scientists
do, and that is what prevents them from understanding the stars.
13.
Do not specialize.
A big fancy degree would have destroyed my
ability to be creative and make this discovery. Graduate schools for science
are giant meat grinders, molding young minds and bashing their brains to standards
that the community already accepts, or you’re out! This runs counter to reality
though as your ability to make great discoveries is granted as soon as you
develop a rational mind, back in your teenage years, not after you get big
fancy degree, Wizard of Oz style. Don’t let Keeping up with the Joneses get to
you. I don’t have a big fancy physics degree, yet I made the most important
astronomy discovery of the past 2000 years. How is that possible? Number 14
holds the key to success in science.
14.
Root out the
assumptions scientists are making about how nature works.
The assumptions scientists have about nature
are extremely numerous and contagious. A large portion of the assumptions are
also unspoken as well. For instance, it is assumed Earth was always its current
size throughout its history. Don’t you think it is a strange assumption, when
the overwhelming majority of objects discovered, even in the 21st
century are larger (both in diameter and mass) than Earth? Like what my one
childhood friend used to tell me. It is right in there. Assume. It makes an
ASS-U-ME. Or, an ass out of you and me. Don’t confuse ego or titles for genuine
understanding or someone’s ability to make great discoveries.
15.
Presenting a new idea
to most scientists is equivalent to punching him/her in the face.
Contrary to popular propaganda, presenting a
new idea to most scientists is extremely insulting. They are more offended if
the idea you present does not mesh with what they believe. Most scientists are
creatures of habit, of extreme habit if you will, and live in giant university
Echo chambers, and new ideas scare the shit out of them. The paranoia is strong
in academic communities, because they play the credibility game. If a new idea
rears its specter like head, they will attack with everything they have,
especially if that idea can make their credibility obsolete and jeopardize
their income. That is a main problem with scientists these days, they have
attached their income to the science. See #4.
16.
Many establishment
scientists (not all) are extremely biased with their research and ideas as well
as harbor hate and resentment towards others, even other scientists.
I used to be hateful and harbor resentment,
now I’ve kind of grown up with the new idea with experience under my belt. I
understand how discoveries work now. It is nothing like what people think, at
all. I’ve become more of a kindred spirit, because I’m no longer angered and
shocked with the treatment I receive. I get it now. I hope you can too.
17. Science is ruled by the mob mentality.
Bring out the pitchforks! They love to gang up on people who are different than them, and oust free thinkers.
18. There are no checks and balances.
Peer review is controlled by unchecked individuals. They have the power to reject manuscripts based on their own beliefs, biases and inner "club" mentalities. Not a part of the club? Did not go to the right school? Well then. Good luck trying to publish in one of our referred journals!
17. Science is ruled by the mob mentality.
Bring out the pitchforks! They love to gang up on people who are different than them, and oust free thinkers.
18. There are no checks and balances.
Peer review is controlled by unchecked individuals. They have the power to reject manuscripts based on their own beliefs, biases and inner "club" mentalities. Not a part of the club? Did not go to the right school? Well then. Good luck trying to publish in one of our referred journals!
