More math stuff, truth and social reality

jstevh_at_msn.com
Date: 03/07/05 

Date: 7 Mar 2005 04:10:44 -0800

One thing that I learned from my misadventures and adventures in the
area of amateur pursuit of mathematical discoveries is that the truth
doesn't help you much.

There are any number of ways I can demonstrate the validity and
importance of my work across a number of areas, from prime number
research to advanced algebraic number theory, to now, factoring, where
the math people have basically set up one criteria to block the proofs:

They deny.

To break through, notice, I have to have the best and fastest out
there.

If I can't *personally* build the fastest prime counting function ever,
they act like my work should be dismissed.

If I can't factor better than anything else out there, they act like my
factoring research should be ignored.

With research where I can't so easily demonstrate, like with my other
work in algebraic number theory, they just change the rules, so I get a
paper published in a small electronic math journal, and most math
people ignore it, while the sci.math'ers band together to email the
journal!!!

The journal breaks basic academic rules and yanks my paper, at first
with no mention of it, only later saying it was "Withdrawn" which could
actually mislead some people into thinking I withdrew it, when the
editors of the journal did.

Now that journal shut down, and the sci.math'ers talked as if it were
nothing, as if it were the most normal damn thing in the world, because
the truth is not what these people care about, at all.

Before I came along you may have naively thought that if some guy, even
if you thought he was a bit obnoxious, came along and found his own
prime counting function then that would be news.

Not in today's math world, where mathematicians tell you they decide
what's important or not.

Before I came along, an amateur mathematician getting a math paper
published showing a major result would have been news.

That paper being yanked under email pressure from Usenet posters would
have been news as well.

A new paper covering that original result and more ending up at
Princeton to be reviewed would have been news as well.

But the math people come forward and post about how all the facts just
make *me* look crazy. Somehow according to them, each and every detail
can be explained away to the negative so that there's nothing at all to
my research, nothing of importance in anything I do, and oh yeah,
shouldn't I just quit posting?

But it's Usenet for God's sake! The math people changed the rules here
too so that they can tell posters whether to even post or not!!! And
they act like that's just normal as well!!!

It doesn't matter what the area, if they want something then they say
that's logical, reasonable, and the way it should be, despite what's
actually a value, like posting and not just commanding other posters,
on Usenet.

They are not rational. They make up their own rules, and then break
them as they see fit. The math people are not who you think they are.

Notice we're talking about *mathematics* where I have actual proof,
including mathematical proofs, which the math people blithely ignore,
and then they lie about just about everything, and they keep getting
away with it.

You have no security, no foundation in the belief that the truth can
help you when it comes to situations where a LOT of powerful people
don't want to accept that truth.

Look around you people. Look at how many things are debated into the
ground despite the evidence.

And look at how rarely the truth matters in today's world.

James Harris

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