The Voice of Allan Zade
Coming back to researchers and the scientific method, we can see this. Before the experiment, the researcher uses some a priori knowledge in the form of a set of categories in his mind.
a priori, in epistemology, means knowledge that is independent of all particular experiences, as opposed to a posteriori (or empirical) knowledge, which derives from experience. The terms have their origins in the medieval Scholastic debate over Aristotelian concepts (see Scholasticism). Immanuel Kant initiated their current usage, pairing the analytic-synthetic distinction with the a priori – a posteriori distinction to define his theory of knowledge.
- Encyclopedia Britannica
That set of categories may include artificial categories, and it is also possible that every category in that set is artificial.
Suppose a researcher conducts an experiment, and the experimental output does not match one or every a priori category in the researcher's mind. A researcher meets the cognitive dissonance that way. What happens regarding cognitive dissonance?
Cognitive dissonance does not appear when the experimental output belongs to a new area of research and does not disprove any fundamental category that exists in the researcher's mind. Otherwise, the researcher's mind experiences cognitive dissonance.
According to the theory of Cognitive Dissonance, the magnitude of that dissonance is directly proportional to the level of destruction that experimental output gives the researcher.
Moreover, under such circumstances, a person tries to reduce the dissonance in all possible ways. As a result, there are two possible ways to "deal with the situation." The first way includes rejecting the experimental result. That is the easiest way to eliminate cognitive dissonance in the human mind. In that case, a researcher refuses to conduct that experiment again and tries to pretend that he knows nothing about it.
The second way includes assuming the experimental output and the subsequent destruction of one or more fundamental ideas in the human mind. The independent researchers appear that way. They have done some research, had the experimental output that disproves "a well-established point of view," and recognized the deficiency of some a priori categories in their minds.
In that case, some noumena become phenomena resulting from experiments and disprove some categories of the human mind regardless of their "significant role for humans."
Strictly speaking, the scientific method becomes the tool of destruction instead of creation that way. It disproves any artificial category put under question and shows its deficiency by the destruction of some attributes of that category. As mentioned above, a category cannot survive in case of any change in its attribute.
The best example of such action was the Magellan voyage.
Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese Fernão de Magalhães, Spanish Fernando de Magallanes or Hernando de Magallanes, (born 1480, Sabrosa or Porto?, Portugal — died April 27, 1521, Mactan, Philippines), Portuguese navigator and explorer who sailed under the flags of both Portugal (1505–13) and Spain (1519–21). From Spain he sailed around South America, discovering the Strait of Magellan, and across the Pacific. Though he was killed in the Philippines, one of his ships continued westward to Spain, accomplishing the first circumnavigation of Earth. The voyage was successfully terminated by the Basque navigator Juan Sebastián del Cano.
- Encyclopedia Britannica
The first circumnavigation of Earth gave experimental proof that it is possible to return to the start point (of the root) from the East, going all the way to the West.
Such a point of view was impossible in medieval Europe because the Earth category had the attribute of flatness. It was the cornerstone of religious belief at that time. Therefore, the destruction of that attribute disproved the entire category and the idea of the flat Earth, along with all derived categories that rest on that category. All of them were recognized later as artificial.
In other words, Magellan and his voyage disproved the fundamental medieval aspect of the category related to the flat Earth. They pushed it to the set of artificial categories.
It was not easy because it caused a massive cognitive dissonance in people's minds. Strictly speaking, all human beings were affected by that process. Until today, many people have come to churches and used the category of flat Earth as the correct one.
The situation becomes worse in scientific society because scientists willingly or not fall into cognitive dissonance every time they conduct an edge experiment, and the output of such an experiment disproves aspects of their a priori categories.
An edge-experiment is an experiment that does not belong to any experiment conducted ever before
- Allan Zade
The output of such experiments is most likely to disprove aspects of a priori categories in the researcher's mind, followed by a massive cognitive dissonance. As a result, official science refuses to deal with many experiments that disprove "well-established theories." Official science rejects almost every attempt to publish such research in the form of scientific articles.
They pretend that many decades of technological and mental progress give new researchers no advantage over their predecessors. They pretend that atomic clocks have no advantage over grandfather clocks, optical communication channels look like old pneumatic tube mail systems, and so on.
Many attempts to publish Allan Zade's articles (and articles of other independent researchers) were also rejected. Usually, his articles explain categories of space, time, and motion. As a result, Allan came up with his site to explain his ideas to everyone who likes to see and comprehend them. Otherwise, you can visit another site that shows artificial categories in which you want to believe.