Reports, either published by the first time or updated in the year 2008, listed by inverse chronological order.
Chronological index and latest reports.
This Perspective deals with the origin, present status, and future developments of a new and revolutionary approach: canonical science.
The report starts with a tribute to , the father of the first version of canonical theory. The novelty of his theoretical work and the importance of his early attempt to unify physics, chemistry, and biology are emphasized.
Next, the main developments done in post- canonical science are presented. The fundamental differences with original thinking and the reception of the new ideas are noticed.
The new canonical theory addresses physicists' goal of unification of physics, chemistry, and biology... but it does by abandoning reductionism. The degree of unification achieved using canonical theory is compared with the notorious fiasco of string theory. This Perspective reports the recent episode when 's reductionist ideas about chemistry were completely wrong. The popular claims that the Periodic Table of the Elements has been reduced to quantum mechanics and that any theoretical physicist, using quantum electrodynamics, could calculate the behaviour of chemical systems are analyzed and discredited.
Moreover, this report inverts the traditional perspective and delineates how, for instance, quantum electrodynamics can be obtained from the more general canonical theory. A radical change of perspective has been witnessed in science since former physical theories are obtained, as special cases, from the new canonical approach.
The new approach is free of the so-called time paradox
, modeling Nature like a world of continuous construction
ruled by probabilistic laws and no longer a kind of automaton.
The report also summarizes some other important contributions to physics, chemistry, and biology. For instance, canonical science can solve the so-called biggest mistake on physics and can be also useful for applied ecologists, resource managers, and pest managers.
Finally, The science's new faith
section offers readers a collection of the advantages of canonical science for (i) specialized researchers in traditional disciplines, (ii) educators, (iii) scientists working in new disciplines of complexity, (iv) engineers, (v) philosophers, (vi) students, and (vii) policy makers, funding agencies, and heads of both public and private centers and organizations.
This report presents a nonidealized vision of 21st century science. It handles some social, political, and economic problems that affect the heart of scientific endeavour and are carrying important consequences for scientists and the rest of society.
The problems analyzed are the current tendency to limit the size of scholarly communications, the funding of research, the rates and page charges of journals, the wars for the intellectual property of the data and results of research, and the replacement of impartial reviewing by anonymous censorship. The scope includes an economic analysis of PLoS' finances, the wars APS versus Wikipedia and ACS versus NIH, and a list of thirty four Nobel Laureates whose awarded work was rejected by peer review.
Several suggestions from , , , and the present author for solving the problems are included in the report. The work finishes with a brief section on the reasons to be optimists about the future of science.
To serve better to research community, students, and general people, and to fill own needs, the Center launches the new Canonical Science Reports; Center's dedicated 'living' journal for rapid and effective dissemination of last knowledge in this unified theory.
This Announcement introduces journal main features such as the kind of reports and scope, size limitations, open access, funding issues, and peer review policy.
Version 2: Two references modified to adapt to pre-publication changes during their peer-review process.
To serve better to research community, students, and general people, and to fill own needs, the Center launches the new Canonical Science Reports; Center's dedicated 'living' journal for rapid and effective dissemination of last knowledge in this unified theory.
This Announcement introduces journal main features such as the kind of reports and scope, size limitations, open access, funding issues, and peer review policy.