1776-Done John or Dungeon

RANT #8:One eleventh of the way to complete the Rants. I don't how anybody finds the blog except randomly. I tried to insert meta-names in the hope of hooking a search engine but Google said no. Anyway, the 1776 reference (besides the numerological connection to this site) refers to the song in the musical of the same name sung by John Adams: "Is anybody there? Does anybody care? Does anybody see what I see?" It seems to me that Physics today, having abandoned the phenomenal approach on the leading edge of research, instead has taken the noumenal approach of mathematics. I cite many quotes dating mostly to 1920's because that's when noumenal physics was launched but two are particularly poignant. G. N. Lewis, Head of Chemistry at Berkeley and renowned thermodynamicist, is quoted "Mathematics sometimes serves as a substitute for thought." The second one is from Alfred North Whitehead, the Oxford mathematician (and collaborator with Bertram Russell, both of whom turned to Philosophy) who later taught at Harvard: "There can be no true physical science which looks to mathematics for the provision of a conceptual model. Such a procedure is to repeat the errors of the logicians of the Middle Ages." Clearly the conflict between the phenomenal and noumenal was lost in the years that followed. It not that noumenal physics is wrong - are some amazing computational achievements. But referring again to the pre-Copernican Middle Ages, their computations using epicycles to account for the motions of the planets worked well too - however contrived they were. This is where I believe modern Physics stands. And you can believe that the Lords of Science will be quick to condemn me and my position as one more nut-case. Two more quotes from Whitehead, who as a philosopher transcended the narrowness of the scientific specialist: "During the Medieval epoch in Europe the theologians were the chief sinners in respect to dogmatic finality. During the last three centuries, their bad preeminence in the habit passed to the men of Science." "Also, the sort of person who was a scholastic doctor in a medieval university, today is a scientific professor in a modern university." So back to John Adams' questions: nobody is there - nobody cares - and I'm a peripheral nut-job whose math is too simple and not nearly subtle enough to qualify for even a glance. They are too isolated in their mutually exclusive subsets of "theoretician" and "experimentalist." So who should be there and who should care? I would think the physics graduate students and even undergrads are the likely candidates because they've learned the material of physics but not yet closed their minds.