Re: Nobel Prize for David Thomson?!

From: Bilge (dubious_at_radioactivex.lebesque-al.net)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 06:20:01 GMT

 Paul Stowe:
>On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:56:21 GMT, "Bill Hobba" <bhobba@rubbish.net.au> wrote:

>> 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...!

  On the contrary. Mainstream physics has not accepted dark matter or dark
energy as an explanation for anything yet, despite being a hell of a lot
more quantitative and more plausible than anything you've suggested. The
most outrageous propositions made by mainstream physicists are based on
more solid physics than anything you've suggested. As for virtual
particles, the proof is in the calculations in which virtual particles
appear. Weinberg and salam _predicted_ the W/Z to mass ratio based upon
the data in which the W and Z are virtual. Even the prediction of the
existence of the Z was based upon the need for a neutral (virtual)
particle exchange.

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