The Concept of the Journal
The word “trivial” in our magazine’s title may seem out of place, but if one considers that by the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Science was just beginning to reign supreme in society (and before that, Trivia had always prevailed), thanks to a fundamental transformation of the basic views and concepts that existed in society at the time, Trivia was overthrown and banned along with its core concepts: ether, phlogiston, caloric, somatids1, … and they were replaced by a vast number of various misconceptions, and by the late
19th–early 20th centuries, the views known as “Science”—with their dogmas and illusions—had become established and prevailed; these were assigned a 300-year history, for which scientists who never existed were invented, or rather, they may have existed, but had no connection whatsoever to the discoveries attributed to them. These discoveries were attributed to them, even though they had long been known; knowledge of them came to us from the depths of the centuries, and their surnames were used to mask the fundamental concepts of Trivia. For example, the surname Volt (1745) concealed from us the concept of a “magic doll” that transfers any properties to any objects. The surname Ampère (1775) (the Ampère device) concealed from us the frequency converter, and the surname Galvani (1737) obscured from us the concept of “Galvan” (devices for converting one unit of measurement into another), for example: “time into space,” or “motion into memory,” or “sound into electromagnetic radiation,” etc.