Simplicity versus Obfuscation.
The success of Mathematics in almost any field of human activity is due to
many factors, one of these factors is its intrinsic use of
"parsimony" or the explicit use of "economic of
thought" or the tendency to use a minimal set of assumptions(axioms)
trying to "explain" a given result.
The success of the mathematical approach in natural science and in Physics
in particular implies that Reality should be "working" along the
same minimalist principles and many physical "laws" can indeed be
deducted from variational/minimalists mathematical principles.
That is why in Science "simple" explanations are preferred over
convoluted/obfuscated ones and that general approach obviously had great
success.
But the blind use of this reductionist approach can backfire and as a
matter of fact the current situation regarding the incapacity of Official
Science to acknowledge the reality of Anomalies is due in part to the
incorrect use in general of this philosophical approach and the incapacity
of the Science's Elite to recognize the intrinsic limitations of
reductionism, pointed in part by the Godel's incompleteness theorems in
Mathematical Logic.
The failure of Official Science and Traditional Ufology on the reality of
Anomalies can in fact be linked on one side by the blind use of simplicity
by Official Science and the overly use of obfuscation by Traditional
Ufology. Reality appears to be somewhere in the middle of these two extreme
approaches.
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