To this "genius", Brent, I ask this. Why, in the entirety of human history, hasn't there been a "bad hair day", when gravity kicks out and sends thousands soaring off into space?
Maybe, MAYBE, in a hundred years or so, something may walk in the door to support this hare-brained chicanery. I haven't been involved in the physics community for close to fifteen years, and it's stuff like this that makes me happy that I estranged myself. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:41 PM, brent wodehouse < brent_wodeho...@thefence.us> wrote: > > > Yes. The 'bad hair day' theory of gravity. > > 'It goes something like this: your hair frizzles in the heat and humidity, > because there are more ways for your hair to be curled than to be > straight, and nature likes options. So it takes a force to pull hair > straight and eliminate nature’s options. Forget curved space or the spooky > attraction at a distance described by Isaac Newton’s equations well enough > to let us navigate the rings of Saturn, the force we call gravity is > simply a byproduct of nature’s propensity to maximize disorder.' > > From: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13gravity.html?src=mv > > Brent > > > martinbaxt...@gmail.com <martinbaxter7%40gmail.com> wrote: > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >From: Martin Baxter > ><martin.baxter....@gmail.com<martin.baxter.013%40gmail.com> > > > >Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:54 PM > >Subject: Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist > >To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com <martinbaxter7%40gmail.com> > > > > > >Even as I post this, I feel compelled to say that this is a post from a > >new Siffy-powered site and that, IMO, that association renders this and > >all other things reported that as null and void, being too far divorced > >from reality... > > > > >========================================================================================================== > > > >Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist > >Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist > >Stephen Hawking experiences weightlessness in a jet > >7Share > > > >I know that something is keeping me from floating off as I type away at > >this keyboard, but thanks to Erik Verlinde, a string theorist and > >professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, I no longer know > >what. But I'm not the only one feeling a little, well, adrift right now. > > > >According to an article in the NY Times, "Some of the best physicists in > >the world say they don't understand Dr. Verlinde's paper." Which makes us > >feel a little better that we don't either. > > > >That paper, "On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton," claims > >that gravity is an illusion. > > > > > >More at: http://blastr.com/2010/07/eccentric-but-brilliant-p.php > > > > > >-- > >"Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live." > > > >(About little moments of happiness) "If this isn't nice, I don't know > >what is." -- Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" > > > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
