University of Arizona Scholar Creates a Feminist Brand of Physics to Combat Bigotry

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2017-05-31 02:26

Article here. Excerpt:

'A researcher at the University of Arizona claims to have created a feminist brand of quantum physics to weed out the bigotry that she believes follows from a study of Newtonian physics.

Researcher Whitney Stark of the University of Arizona’s Institute for LGBT Studies claims to have invented a new form of physics, intersectional quantum physics, that combats the alleged bigotries of classical science.

“Intersectionality and quantum physics can provide for differing perspectives on organizing practices long used by marginalized people, for enabling apparatuses that allow for new possibilities of safer spaces, and for practices of accountability,” she writes in the abstract for her paper, “Assembled Bodies: Reconfiguring Quantum Identities.”'

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I have seen attempts to reconcile religiosity and science via hybrid approaches combining the two. The problem of course is that almost by definition, a religious belief system is absent proof of its veracity, as faith seems to be a requirement by definition of a religious belief system. That is fundamentally incompatible with the scientific method, when in fact scientists actually bother to follow it.

Deciding that a scientific theory or collection thereof must be modified to match an ideological point of view is not much different from the kinds of things the medieval Catholic church used to try doing. If a person published something that seemed to run counter to its teachings, that person got into various levels of trouble, up to and including getting thrown in prison for it, executed, etc., assuming he had the temerity to stand his ground. As a consequence, a fair number of people who thought the world better off operating from verifiable facts rather than doctrinally-driven rules were either silenced, killed, or something else.

I'd hate to see the same sort of thig happen in the realm of physics. After all, a lot of very bad things start happening when people come to believe false things about the world especially as regards subjects like physics. Remember the Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons? The coyote frequently thought he could run farther than the length of the cliff. It never ended well for him.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2017-05-31 02:55

but feminists have no sense of humor.

But this article does make a joke out of science.

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Submitted by el cid on Wed, 2017-05-31 16:51