Re: Nobel Prize for David Thomson?!

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 16:01:00 -0800

Paul Stowe wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:56:21 GMT, "Bill Hobba" <bhobba@rubbish.net.au> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Morituri-|-Max" <newage@sendarico.net> wrote in message
> >news:wgjzd.22628$yv2.9803@fe2.texas.rr.com...
> >> caltechdude wrote:
> >> > What gives matter and energy their identities? Physics just
> >> > describes them without explaining the origin. Mr. Thomson is
> >> > just giving a theory that attempts to explain them. Notice his
> >>
> >> How long have you been at college (assumption based on post name)? Have
> >you
> >> been there long enough to know the difference between the scientific
> >"theory"
> >> and the laymans "theory?"
> >>
> >> At this point, your targeted idol does not have a theory, at best he has
> >an
> >> hypothesis.
> >
> > I think at this point he is using a lot of typical crank tactics eg
> > he says 'The Aether is non-physical in nature'. Both you and I have
> > read a lot of crank spew and many standard tactics stand out. One
> > common one is to call something in your theory a metaphysical
> > construct or 'non physical or something like that. That way if you
> > are actually pinned down on anything it gives you wiggle room.
>
> Oh, like 'Dark Matter', 'Dark Energy', virtual particles. So-called
> mainstream physics has no high ground here...!

Indeed. However, your cited examples do not contradict common
observation. On the contrary - they are exact curve fittings. David
Thompson is an empirical idiot for being deep-sixed by an overwhelming
number of falsifying observations (a mere single contradiction would
do it, of course), the whole of which are trivially and freely
available in the open literature, the Web, arXiv, etc.

The quintessential hallmark of the crank/crackpot/spewing psychotic is
a vigorously maintained ignorance of catalogued observations. That is
usually decorated with the inability to do basic math past (or to)
algebra and an equally vigorously maintained ignorance of that. They
revel in their ignorance, untainted by manefest reality. Mystics are
baffled by the obvious yet possess a complete understanding of the
nonexistent.

A carpenter, plumber, electrician, mason... any tradesman need not
have knowledge of the scentific and engineering bases of his craft.
He can do it by rote, following plans made by others. However, you
won't find any journeyman anywhere so stupid as to make the same
dysfunctional mistake twice. That is weeded out in apprentices. 

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