The Description
The re-classification of theories as merely descriptions by Modern Physics pundits gave a fillip to the job-security of professional knowledge brokers. Whereas a theory had to be rigorously stated, a description was always imperfect, incomplete. Further, a description was a description of Reality, so that it could not be untrue, since reality is true by definition. New experimental evidence would merely help to enrich the description. Popperian refutation became impossible.
Under the new science of Modern Physics, the reigning theory is a description of physical reality. Thus, it could never be wrong in the old sense of classical science. Phlogiston and Caloric could be later adjudged wrong because they pre-dated Modern Physics. Today, no such concept could be excised from the reigning science.
Let us analyse the behaviour of Pepper, McEwan, Secker and the rest over the Catt Anomaly within the ideological framework of Modern Physics. All parties agree that the charge appears on the lower conductor, because Aristotle - oops! - I should have said Maxwell - said it did and the gentry at the Brussels-Solvay Conference in 1927 accepted this into the creed of Modern Physics. All that is outstanding is the description of where the charge comes from. Pepper and McEwan both described the process of appearance of the charge. Since they only described, as one might describe a sunset, Secker could later on agree with them both! One does not, one cannot really, disagree with the description of a sunset. Under the new reign of Modern Physics, the more descriptions, the better, each description enhancing our grasp of the mystery of the charge's appearance. Wave - particle dualism set the scene for apparently discordant descriptions to be accepted into the glossary of scientific knowledge. We know that the charge appears; any contribution to how it does so is to be welcomed.
It is noticeable that Occam's Razor has disappeared from Modern Physics, while Bohr's Correspondence Principle, which is the opposite of Occam's Razor, is celebrated nightly.
Way back in 1980, I claimed that a Mistake was impossible within the bogus, unscientific context of Modern Physics. Today, I ask Modern Physiics Wallahs to (a) show an example of a Mistake in Modern Physics, and (b) show us how a Mistake could be identified within their 'system'. I claim that their system excludes the possibility of a mistake; that it is specifically designed to make a mistake impossible, so that a hiccough in a career is an impossibility. Thus by Popper's criteria, Modern Physics is unscientific. Sycophant Karl Popper, bless his little cotton socks, was career oriented enough not to notice this. He dismissed various disciplines including Marxism as unscientific, but failed to subject Modern Physics to the same analysis outlined in his book "Conjectures and Refutations", pub. RKP 1963. However, Popper's late books address the nonsense in Modern Physics, and claims that Modern Physics Wallahs refuse to respond to his questions. He was later undoing the damage done by his earlier sycophantic books, but too late.
"de Broglie and Schrödinger were far from happy with Bohr's views (later called 'the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics')" -p91
"Schrödinger, who told me that he was deeply unhappy about quantum mechanics and thought that nobody really understood it." -p92
"Yet I could not [understand] Bohr's 'complementarity', and I began to doubt whether anybody else understood it .... This doubt was shared by Einstein, as he later told me, and by Schrödinger."
-p93, K Popper, "Unended Quiest", pub. Fontana 1976.