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From: Bob Reuschlein <bobreuschlein at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 2:25 PM
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Scientific
Revolution Type By Professor Robert Reuschlein

*Trans-Disciplinary Revolution *

The very expression “thinking outside the box” suggests that people get
caught up in narrow minded boxes and can’t see outside their disciplinary
frameworks.  I was recently accused of “methodological ambiguity” by
someone who clearly doesn’t understand engineering.  Engineering and
construction use whatever methods work in a variety of juxtapositions to
put together a useful whole.  It is not surprising that those of the social
sciences would interpret this process as methodological ambiguity, having
little familiarity with the engineering sciences.  Bringing a combination
of hard sciences and social sciences from nine basic fields of study allows
one to see beyond the narrowness of specialties to the broader truths
around them.  My nine fields are math, wargaming, science, engineering,
accounting, business, politics, peace economics, and global warming.  Only
this way leads to true paradigm shifts as certain frames test better than
others.  Point number 7 in the next list is crucial to understanding this
point.

*10 Scientific Revolution Facts*

This is mainly a book review by Robert Reuschlein of:

 *The Structure of Scientific Revolutions* by Thomas Kuhn (1962, 1972)

#1.   Kuhn defines a scientific revolution as a paradigm shift in a
scientific field.

#2.   Paradigm shifts change the worldview in a field of science. (Kuhn)

#3.   Kuhn is a historian of science and works primarily in the physical
sciences.

#4.   Kuhn says a new theory “requires the reconstruction of prior theory
and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process
that is seldom completed by a single” person “and never overnight.”

#5.   “History suggests that the road to a firm research consensus is very
arduous.” (Kuhn)

#6.   “it remains an open question what parts of social science have yet
acquired such paradigms at all.” (Kuhn)

#7.   “In the absence of a paradigm or some candidate for paradigm, all of
the facts that could possibly pertain to the development of a given science
are likely to seem equally relevant.  As a result, early fact-gathering is
a far more nearly random activity than the one that subsequent scientific
development makes familiar.” (Kuhn)

#8   “Therefore, at times of revolution, when the normal-scientific
tradition changes, the scientists perception of his environment must be
re-educated – in some familiar situations he” or she “must learn to see a
new gestalt.” (Kuhn)

#9   “schools guided by different paradigms are always slightly at
cross-purposes.” (Kuhn)

#10  “what a person sees depends both on what a person looks at and also
upon what a person’s previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him
or her to see.” (Kuhn)

*10 Truths About Research*

#1.  Military Research is often too military specific to give any civilian
benefit to the economy.  New areas of research bring the greatest results,
but much military research improves on existing ideas without creating
anything truly new.

#2.  Military Research is often too top secret to benefit from normal
academic testing in conferences.  Without the widespread dissemination of
ideas, serendipity cannot happen.

#3.  Much of mainstream research money goes to follow on research rather
than truly original research.  Grants are awarded for research desired by
the grantee, not necessarily for new innovations that have no obvious
benefactor at first, but often change the world.

#4.  Most of the greatest innovations come from the little person not from
major research institutions.  Like many others, Steve Jobs started out in a
garage.

#5.  Independent researchers are often looked down upon by the snobs in
leading academic institutions.  Colleagues have recommended I present my
ideas to various UW Madison forums, but with Madison the 9th ranked city in
snobbery, it’s hard to get recognition as an independent researcher.

#6.  Large corporations can buy up inventions that they don’t want to
compete with.  Such as the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car?” about
California in the nineties.

#7.  Large corporations can use the legal system to bankrupt the small
inventor.  This one was brought up as a major cause by a presenter on
patent process information.

#8.  Large corporations can use government restrictions to block progress
of the small inventor.  My personal experience in the small dry cleaner
industry up against big oil shows that suspected cancer causing
perclorethylene has 300 times tighter restrictions than known carcinogen in
oil, benzene.

#9.  Large research institutions can ignore research too far outside the
mainstream.  As a colleague of mine has said, 2% improvement makes you a
great researcher, but 3% improvement means you are a nut job.

#10.  Peer reviewed research limitations can stop small inventors from
following their best instincts.  Imagine if Jesus had to have approval of
the Sanhedrin to preach:  that would have ended it right there.

Example of a paradigm shift:

Fall of empire, driven by diverting resources from productivity to the
military, affects everything from politics to crime to health as social
decay follows economic decay.

https://www.academia.edu/4044446/EMPIRE_ECONOMICS_Peer_Review_AWARD

Facts documenting this paradigm shift:

13 key statistics and the one liner descriptions that sum them up on one
page.

https://www.academia.edu/4044456/SUMMARY_Military_DisEconomics_HighAccuracy13

Here is the 11 page heart of the real model that is the “Proof of Peace
Economics”:

Far from “cherry picking” this includes all 380 numbers in the 64 year US
economic model.

https://www.academia.edu/7632773/PROOF_of_Peace_Economics_11_pages_1986

Professor Robert Reuschlein, Dr. Peace,

Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2016

Real Economy Institute, Madison, Wisconsin

CONTACT: bobreuschlein at gmail.com 608-230-6640,

INFO: www.realeconomy.com

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