These quotes are
derived from the lectures, interviews and publications of Professor Amagh Nduka,
and have been compiled by Chigozie Ubani in honour of this great intellectual,
who died December 26, 2019 and will be laid to rest in his hometown on Saturday
March 21, 2020.
“The
science of the past had nature in the front seat and mathematics at the back
seat, but the science of the 21st Century and beyond has mathematics
in the front seat and nature, at the back seat”.
- A. Nduka (2015). Science in the 21st Century: What has Changed. Science Nigeria Lectures held June 17, 2015 at the University of Abuja.
“We are the pioneers of the future, with
the aim of constructing a physical theory appropriate to both macroscopic and
microscopic phenomena. The elements of our theory are: the intellect,
non-classical mathematics (discrete geometry, partition and dimensionality
theorems, 4-operators – all invented by us), and experiment.”
-
A.
Nduka (2015). Science in the 21st Century: What has Changed. Science
Nigeria Lectures held June 17, 2015 at the University of Abuja.
“What we have done puts Nigeria as number
one in science [referring to his works and contributions], and I’m the only
authority in the world in it.”
-
A.
Nduka (2015). Science in the 21st Century: What has Changed. Science
Nigeria Lectures held June 17, 2015 at the University of Abuja.
“There
are only two laws through which the whole of nature can be unraveled. The first
law, which is mathematical, is called the dimensionality theorem. This law
states that every physical state is a partition of eight (8), and by partition
we mean bits and pieces of primitive numbers that add up to 8. As such, the
whole of nature is determined by number 8, and this number I call cosmic number
8. The second law is physical, and states that every physical state is
electrically neutral. With these two laws, I have constructed all of nature,
including those things my predecessors and colleagues could not do for the past
100 years”.
-
A.
Nduka (2015). Science in the 21st Century: What has Changed. Science
Nigeria Lectures held June 17, 2015 at the University of Abuja.
Speaking at
the Science Nigeria Lectures 2015, Professor Amagh Nduka reviewed
physics in the last 3000 years, and categorized its development into four
periods: period of antiquity, renaissance (intellect-driven period),
machine-driven period, and the future. For the renaissance or intellect-driven
period, Professor Amagh Nduka said:
“The
second period is the renaissance period. This was the period when the ancient
scientists wanted to understand the works of Greek philosophers in the period
of antiquity. They wanted to understand mathematically the theory of motion.
They wanted to understand mathematically the theory of electricity and
magnetism. And within the same period, chemists discovered periodic table and
periodic law. There were actually a lot of things to understand, and this
period, I call the intellect-driven period. The giants of the period were Isaac
Newton, Albert Einstein and PAM Dirac. There were also others: JC Maxwell,
Heisenberg and Schrondinger. This last three were good, but not very good
scientists. This period recorded a lot of triumphs and came to an end by the work
of Dirac, who studied the hydrogen atom to understand the empirical work of
chemists that created the periodic table and the periodic law”.
On the third period, Professor Amagh
Nduka had this to say:
“The
third period began from 1930 to date. This period is the machine-driven period.
It is the golden age of experimental physics, but the dark age of theoretical
physics. The giants of this period brought in all sorts of things – guage
theory, string theory, perturbation theory, and renormalization theory – just
to give result for experiments. There is supposed to be symbiosis between
experimental physics and theoretical physics, but because these people had no
good mathematics, they could not do it. This was the kind of science that was
done in the period. These people gave themselves Nobel Prizes (including one of
my former students in the US), came up with theories such as quantum
electrodynamics (QED), quantum flavordynamics (QFD), quantum chromodynamics
(QCD), quark model, and standard model – all of which is rubbish”.
-
A.
Nduka (2015). Science in the 21st Century: What has Changed. Science
Nigeria Lectures held June 17, 2015 at the University of Abuja.
“A quantitative estimate, however,
shows that changes in the concentration of greenhouse gases make insignificant
contribution to the observed global temperature rise. Alternatively, recalling
that the earth absorbs a large quantity of energy per second from the sun, we
infer, on the basis of thermodynamics, that the earth’s environment is a heat
bath; hence, changes in the greenhouse gas concentrations cannot affect its
temperature.”
- A. Nduka (2015). The World Energy
Challenge and Global Warming. Energy and
Power Engineering 7: 105-109
“Einstein’s theory of general relativity
(GTR) is not a theory of gravitation; hence its consequences, gravitational
radiation, black holes, quantum gravity, etc. have nothing to do with physical
reality! As a physical theory, GTR is a massive blunder, but as a geometrical
theory of curved space-time, it is a thing of exquisite beauty.”
-
A.
Nduka (2013). The Neutrino Mass. Applied
Mathematics 4 : 310-313
“Our geometrical theory, called
quantum geometro-dynamics, has enormous implications. Indeed almost all of the
conventional microphysical theories are now for the trash can – It is a
revolution!”
- A. Nduka (2012). The Geometrical
Theory of Science. Applied Mathematics
3: 1598-1600
“The
meaning of the potent word ‘development’ has eluded the Africans since
colonization. The G8 and most of G20 countries have imbibed it. Its motive
elements are only four in number politics, science, technology and economy; the
four fused into one by covalent bonds: The technology is dictated by the science,
the economy by the technology, the politics by the economy, and the science by
the politics – this is the magic wand. Africans awkward predicaments and misery
will persist so long as they fail to understand this.”
- A.
Nduka (2010). Science and its Three Revolutions. First Valedictory Lecture of
the Federal University of Technology, Owerri
“If I were to be in the US, with all these things
I’m doing here in Nigeria [referring to his works], I would have won three
Nobel Prizes in Science.”
-
A. Nduka
(2010). In an interactive session with Chigozie Ubani.
“While
in one of the American universities, we were only six black students – four
from Nigeria and the other two, from other African countries. At this time,
public lectures were organized periodically and eminent scientists were brought
to give lectures. But in all these lectures, the one that will remain indelible
in my mind was that of the walking-stick-aided old man – William Shockley [the
transistor genius and physics Nobel laureate]. Every opportunity given to
Shockley was used in demeaning the blacks on how intellectually inferior we
are, and at the same time, buttressing white’s intellectual superiority over
us. This mindset pervaded the atmosphere to the extent that even the teachers
who taught us never believed in us. These were the stimuli that drove most of
us to our excellent performance”.
- A. Nduka (2010). In an interactive session with
Chigozie Ubani, and published in the book – Inculcating
the Tenets of Great Scientists
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