Antigravics

What drives creative people to investigate positions that no one has been before ?

How do they maintain their integrity when all around them are content and do nothing but deride every move or thought the creative make ?

Some rules of thumb

"The Authority Principle : In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei - 1626

The Acceptance Principle : No concept shall attain acceptance without firm and logical support nor retain that acceptance after the loss of such support.

The Confusion Principle : The more complex and confusing the solution, the less likely it will face proper challenge and the more likely it will one day be proven incorrect.

The Lost-Logic Principle : Once an illogical concept is accepted within a science as true, the science itself becomes illogical. As long as the original illogical concept is retained, it is not possible to restore logic to the science as a whole since future concepts accepted within the science must be equally illogical to remain compatible with the original. Thus logic and progress become forever lost to the science until such time as all illogical concepts, including the original, are correctly identified and set aside.

The Common-Sense Principle : If the repeated professions of others in support of some cause are insufficient in helping you to improve your understanding and thereby upgrade the logic that forms the basis of your common sense, then accept their professions as evidence that they are insufficient to affect the advance of their cause beyond the starting-gate status of a theory.

The Homocentric Principle : Man's desire to describe the Universe in terms agreeable with his vision of his own existence as being central to all that exists, knows no bounds.

The False-Truth Principle : Acceptance of even one false concept as true, effectively blinds ones mind to recognition and acceptance of a wide range of related concepts that actually are true.

The Advancement Principle : The advancement of physics always involves the destruction of the majority opinion. Samuel Ting - 2003

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Zarkov's Seek Principle : Seek those of like mind, do not try to convert anyone. When in hostile company, say your piece quietly then withdraw.

Zarkov's Test Principle : Learn to think for yourself when in the realm of science....... especially ignore those that claim knowledge and when asked to show it, anger and ridicule is presented.

Zarkov's Active Principle : Remember trust no one.... and do not give away gems freely..... it is a beautiful world, but remember many hearts are ugly.

Pythagoras was right !!!!!

Seek, Test and be Active.

(Machiavelli, 1513) There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. The innovator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old system and only lukewarm defenders by those who would gain by the new system.

Galileo Galilei) I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or Moon or my telescope.

(Albert Einstein) We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided.