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The Scientific Method and its limitation

Suppose now this: Another researcher (let’s call him “B”) uses a similar device to research that phenomenon. However, he uses a double-wire coil (“B”) to induce the coil (“A”) connected to the galvanometer.

Moreover, he connected wires of coil “B.” Hence, that electrical current goes in one direction on one wire and the opposite direction on the second. As a result, the electric current in the coil “B” appears as two mutually opposite currents at every point of the coil.

Researcher “B” conducts a similar experiment and notices nothing. Therefore, he concluded that a two-wire coil that produced a magnetic field that was two times greater (in comparison with one wire) did not show any physical output from the experiment.

The problem of such a conclusion comes from more than one physical aspect involved in the experiment. Moreover, the experiment raises one more question. What does happen physically in that case?

It takes work to answer. Some researchers think that the magnetic field of the first wire of coil “B” compensates the magnetic field created by the second wire (or the second part of the coil).

Other researchers think that both fields exist in the second experiment as well as in the first one. However, they apply two forces (electromotive forces) to electrons of the coil “A.” Those forces have equal magnitude but opposite directions. As a result, the net force applied to electrons at the coil “A” becomes equal to zero, and electrons do not show any motion or the supposed phenomenon of electromagnetic induction.

In mathematics, both explanations look fine because they show zero electromotive force at the coil (“A”). However, understanding physics at a higher level is quite different.

The first explanation eliminates physical fields and tries to explain the absence of the result by describing the absence of a magnetic field around coil “B” that does not match physical reality.

Therefore, the second explanation gives a correct physical picture of the process involving two magnetic fields and their equal but opposite impact on the electrons of coil “A.” Therefore,

When more than one aspect of physical interaction is involved, the researcher should be especially aware of the measurement because the second aspect may possibly eliminate the result or drop it to an undetectable level.

- Allan Zade

There is one more problem here. In the case of such an experiment, a researcher meets something new that never appeared before the human being. Therefore, the researcher takes responsibility for explaining a detected phenomenon. That is the biggest problem for the human mind because such circumstances require some new category or categories to explain the phenomenon.

Therefore, a researcher tries to develop such categories to explain something new. That is the dark side process that was never described or researched. As a result, a researcher meets a problem that looks "impossible to be solved." That happens whenever an old set of categories that existed in the researcher's mind before the experiment does not match the result coming from the experiment. As a result, a researcher meets cognitive dissonance.

The best example comes from Nicola Tesla's works. He noticed that electromagnetic radiation can be generated at one point of the Earth's surface by a specific device (transmitter) and detected at the other point by a similar device (receiver).

However, his lack of understanding of EM waves led him to the decision that EM radiation (waves) propagates through the Earth's surface instead of "empty space between the transmitter and the receiver."

His mind was unable to comprehend that "empty space can carry EM waves." In other words, the category of "empty space" should be transformed in his mind into another category that contradicts the first one and "does contain something that carries EM waves."

It caused tremendous cognitive dissonance in his mind, which immediately rejected that idea (see Cognitive dissonance ref. #1). This situation confirms the statement mentioned above about pure experiments.

The most significant limitation of the scientific method comes from the human mind's cognitive dissonance

- Allan Zade


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