The Virtue of Heresy

Heresy: The Declaration Of Opinions Contrary To Prevailing Doctrine; Opposition To Dogma; Unorthodox Approach To Science; Method Employed By One'S Intellectual Enemy; Individual Behaviour Often Attracting The Label Crank. In The Course Of Using Essential Theories Of Science In My Decades-Long Attempt To Demystify The Heavens I Became Increasingly Frustrated By Ideas That Just Didn'T Harmonise. If We Were Uncovering The Truth I Reasoned Then The Component Parts Devised By Disparate Specialists Should Dovetail Neatly Together. But They Don'T. Classical Newtonian Mechanics Doesn'T See Eye-To-Eye With Einstein'S Relativity; Both Are Sneered At By Quantum Mechanics. Theories Highly Successful In Their Own Right Seemed When Compared With One Another To Be Describing Different Universes. I Decided That It Was Scientific Methodology That Had Gone Horribly Wrong. I Was Convinced That Some Of The Fundamental Hypotheses Upon Which I Based My Enquiry Were By Strict Analysis Utterly Invalid. They Did Not Describe Reality. That Was A Train-Smash Both For Me And For The Progress Of Science As I Understood It. This Book Is An Account Of That Crisis. But Fear Not This Is Not A High-Tech Science Report For Ã1/4Ber-Geeks. It'S A Storybook Filled With Myth And Adventure. It'S Science Unplugged.