On Fermat, Alpha, and the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Science

The world -under the sway of the religion called "science" is in a very sorry state. There is an accumulation of data, an accumulation that says nothing more nor less than that everything is running toward eternal death, but no one knows why. All science can do is can say is "that's just the way it is". This is due to the neglect by science of the basis and the reason for scientific laws/mathematical principles. Feynman described the scientific enterprise best when he analogized scientific inquiry to the study of a gigantic natural chess game where the scientist tries to work out what the rules of the game are. But if and when he or she is able to do this, the question remains as to why the rules are as they are. Science has it backwards. Once one knows the rules governing the empirically discernible rules -once one knows the deep rules- it is a relatively easy matter to work out what the shallow rules are and why, but it is impossible to discover the deep rules from the shallow ones, i.e. the scientific quest is a walk down the proverbial garden path. The shallow philosophy encapsulated by Feynman has given us proofs of Fermat's Last Theorem, and the Poincare Conjecture, in the form of more or less incomprehensible and arbitrary numerical facts, and it has given us the Standard Model of Particle Physics in which all of the free parameters are set from experiment, i.e. science would have us believe that these values are arbitrarily chosen. Science presents us with a world whose evident, encroaching, and irreversible bleakness makes no sense...