established dogma is wrong

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+If we look back at the last 400 years or so ... Kolmogorov (1903-1987) - Poincaré (1854-1912) - Gauss (1777-1855) - Euler (1707-1783) - Newton (1642-1727) - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 
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+"*Every mathematician believes that he is ahead of the others. None state this belief in public* ***because they are intelligent people*** ... *the achievements of mathematics prove useful to mankind, while to us, mathematicians, they bring such inner satisfaction because ... truth is sacred, it is our honor, privilege and noble duty to seek it out and to defend it, regardless of whether it is pleasant or not.*" -- [Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Kolmogorov) ... As [the Luzin affair shows us who are interested in the trajectory of mathematics and science](http://semr.math.nsc.ru/v10/a1-6.pdf), [what anyone sees as truth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias) always tends to be a bit [path-dependent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence), because many egos and many reputations are involved, so the *truth* is subject to political **power** ... of the regime, of the majority, just or unjust, but *truth* is subject to **power** because the loser's truth dies with them. 
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+[Henri Poincaré](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9) never spent a long time on [an unsolved problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics) since he believed that the subconscious would continue working on the problem while he consciously worked on another problem.
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+"*It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but* ***the act of getting there,*** *which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.*" -- [Carl Friedrich Gauss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss)  Gauss's personal diary indicates that several mathematical discoveries may be found by him years or decades before contemporaries firstly published on them. Many colleagues encouraged him to publicize new ideas, and sometimes rebuked him if he hesitated too long, in their opinion. Gauss defended himself, claiming that the initial discovery of ideas was easy, but preparing a presentable elaboration was a demanding matter for him, for either lack of time or "serenity of mind" he disliked the popularization of scientific matters. The example of the [method of least squares](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_squares) is a notable example. Gauss possessed and used the method and even furnished the ideas behind the method informally to others to use, even though [Gauss considered the ideas behind the method to be "trivial" or so obvious that he figure he must not have been the first to use the method](https://priceonomics.com/the-discovery-of-statistical-regression/) at least a decade before [Adrien-Marie Legendre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrien-Marie_Legendre) developed and published the ideas for the general population of mathematicians and scientists to use, but [Gauss was so unsuccessful in broadly communicating the method well enough in published work to benefit more of his contemporaries that it set off “one of the most famous priority disputes in the history of science](https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aos/1176345451). Gauss would eventually be given most of the credit as the founder of regression, but not without a fight.
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+Prolificacy is often associated with greatness, ie both quality and quantity. [Leonhard Euler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler) may have accomplished the most in his time, since he is generally considered to be the most prolific mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made foundational discoveries in many other branches of mathematics such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, infinitesimal calculus. Of course, Euler is also known for his *other* contributions to mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy, and music theory. And if that were not enough, Euler also introduced much of modern mathematical terminology and notation, including the notion of a mathematical function ... and did other things, like finding time to father 13 children ... because large families were still seen as the only important indicator of success, back in Euler's day.
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+[Issac Newton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton) is generally viewed as having been the sole person ["*to have distinctly advanced every branch of mathematics then studied*"](https://archive.org/details/shortaccountofhi0000ball) which includes not only his foundational impact on Calculus ... but also on Light / Optics ... and, rather famously, on Gravity and mechanics. His record is nothing short of breathtaking or beyond merely awe-inspiring, given the day in age when Newton was alive and/or what his starting frame of reference was and how serious the punishments were for those who held heretical views questioning the prevailing dogma. This does not mean Newton got everything right, eg he certainly let his emotions get the best of him, was totally swayed by the irrationality of the crowd and rushed in late to bet on the [bitcoin of his day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania). Tulip mania is hardly the only example, consider the implications of what it means for his level of experimental work and scientific thought when we can see that the mercury in Newton's hair indicates just how serious and devoted he still was to the art of alchemy.  Newton had inklings that he was, too large degree, a prisoner of the times he lived in. Along with his scientific fame, Newton's studies of the Bible and of the [early Church Fathers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Fathers) were also noteworthy in natural philosophy or mechanical philosophy sense of [disenchantment with religion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disenchantment). Newton wrote works on [textual criticism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textual_criticism_of_the_New_Testament), most notably [An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture](https://books.google.com/books?id=cIoPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1) and [Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Observations_upon_the_Prophecies_of_Daniel).  It's not really that Newton got everything right, as much as is that Newton really set the stage for the modern scientific method and critically second-guessing the unexamined assumptions upon which the prevailing dogma are based.
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+[Galileo Galilei](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei), the astronomer, physicist and engineer, studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of the pendulum and "hydrostatic balances". He was one of the earliest Renaissance developers of the [thermoscope](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoscope), a tube in which a liquid rises and falls as the temperature changes, thus a forerunner of thermometer. Galileo's own work with his thermoscope led him to develop an essentially [atomistic conception](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism#Atomist_renaissance) of heat and [corpuscularist theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism#Corpuscularianism) of matter in motion. Galileo was also the inventor of various [military compasses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_(instrument)) or [sector calculating instruments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_instrument); proficiency in developing these instruments tremendously aided his use of the telescope for scientific observations and measurement of celestial objects. It was that measured, reproducible observation which led to Galileo's championing of Copernican heliocentrism which was forbidden territory. Galileo's work was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615 and based on the conclusion that heliocentrism must be foolish and absurd, because it contradicted established dogma, any advocates of heliocentrism must be heretical. Galileo was then tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant to avoid immediate execution. He then spent the rest of his life under house arrest. During this time, he wrote Two New Sciences (1638), primarily concerning kinematics and the strength of materials, summarizing work he had done around forty years earlier [before he got into trouble by using his instruments to prove established dogma to be wrong].
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 # The point of the AncientGuy essays are about transcending Time
 
+Why are even the most intelligent, most noble as focused on Time as we are? ... we allow our egos to define us, we tend to care more about our reputations and how we are seen by others than anything else ... many inventions do not happen because the would be inventors care more deeply about being first, getting the credit, than they do about.
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 Time and [the quest for a better understanding of timekeeping](https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-time-a-history-of-physics-biology-clocks-and-culture-20200504/) is extremely important for the practical human technlogy that humans increasingly depend upon. For example, CERN's [White Rabbit](https://ohwr.org/project/white-rabbit) [open hardware project](https://ohwr.org/welcome) is a fully deterministic Ethernet-based network for general purpose data transfer and synchronization. It can synchronize over 1000 nodes with sub-ns accuracy over fiber lengths of up to 10 km by providing sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision of synchronization for large distributed systems and also allows for deterministic and reliable data delivery.
 
 ***But what if Time is a bit of a dimensional illusion or something dependent upon a human-centric view of the Universe?***