Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > That would be a pretty sweet quote to have. > In the meantime, speaking of crankery/crackpottery, Boyer is here talking > about scientific crackpots, but I imagine it would be easy to understand > this in terms of economics. > http://www.cognitionandculture.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=435:how-i-found-glaring-errors-in-einsteins-calculations&catid=57:pascals-blog&Itemid=34 > for your amusement.
the first paragraph is great: >Call me radical, call me a maverick. Rather than slavishly swallowing the >scientific orthodoxy from establishment textbooks, I decided to go back to the >original papers. I have identified several embarassing errors of mathematics >and physical reasoning in Einstein’s original 1905 paper on the >“Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, the alleged beginning of “special >relativity”, one of the main tenets of standard modern physics (despite its >manifest absurdity). Once Einstein’s errors are corrected, we can establish a >new foundation for physics that is consistent with commonsense experience, and >does not require fancy mathematical tricks. Not surprisingly, I have been >thwarted in all my attempts to publish these findings in scientific journals, >which is why I have decided to post them on the Internet.< (his tongue is securely lodged in his cheek.) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
