Letter to all physicists, astronomers and scientists ...

[CarlJoseph]

This "Open letter to all physicists, astronomers and scientists" was amongst the advertisements in the Courier-Mail a few days ago. Thought some of you might get a kick out of it.

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Cheers,
Af.

P.S. Hoping Jake Wodhams isn't a member of these forums! :question:

[avandonk]

Rather than dismiss him as another ignorant nutter, all I ask is evidence for his rather simplistic worldview. If he is correct there could be a Nobel Prize in the offing.

Ask Dunning and Kruger about people like him.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias) in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority), mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition) inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#cite_ note-morris-1)

Bert

[bojan]

What is particularly annoying with the types like him (Jake Wodhams) is their dismissive and arrogant attitude.... fueled by their ignorance.

I mean, HE is writing to ALL physicists and scientists !!!

[Suzy]

I just love everything that Bert just said- great response, gold! :lol:

I enjoyed that morning read, thanks Af. :thumbsup:

[Waxing_Gibbous]

Ah-ha!
I knew there was reason I can't get IKEA furniture together!

[Lee]

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[Shano592]

I'm hoping that Jake Wodhams IS a member of these forums. I think that the boldness in taking out a public advertisement like that, needs to be flamed out of the guy.

I'm no physicist, but I certainly understand a lot of it's concepts.

"Travelling at light speed ... according to what?" I assume that it would be in relation to where it was a second (nano-second, femto-second) ago, if mapped on an XYZ-axis chart.

At least he had the stones to put his name to his gibberish!

Better for the world to think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and prove it!

[Dave2042]

I am unimpressed.

The timecube guy has already reached the pinnacle of this kind of thing.

www.timecube.com

[Octane]

Haha, someone else who is aware of the time cube! Awesome. :)

[ZeroID]

I don't get what his point is. What is he trying to prove .. or disprove ? Just seems like a lost mind blabbering on to himself with no real reason.

I'd call those nice men with the white coats, they'll know what to do...

[lacad01]

:screwy: holy smoke, there are some scary people out there...

[frenchbluehour]

:rofl::rofl: :rofl: ... cripes!

[sjastro]

Or what about this character.
(I have posted this before)

I have had the misfortune of "debating" with these sort of idiots.

http://youstupidrelativist.com/

Steven

[Steffen]

…and they are probably allowed to buy and own firearms :scared:

[DavidU]

Time cube:eyepop:OMG

[AstralTraveller]

Somewhere or other I have a copy of a rather lengthy correspondence sent to the editor of a serious scientific journal berating him for rejecting the authors paper wherein the luminary revealed hitherto unsuspected truths which could save the world from an immanent disaster. The editor was therefore solely responsible for the demise of humanity which would doubtless occur in the relatively hear future. Apparently similar contribution to the scientific literature make up a small but noticeable fraction of papers submitted to this (and I presume other) reputable journals. There's a few of them out there.

EDIT I just spoke to the editor and he estimates he gets similar papers submitted about once a year. I also found the paper in question and its basic hypothesis appears to be that the glacial/interglacial cycles can be explained by the Earth being periodically shrouded in the debris of a large comet that broke up. I'm not clear whether each glacial is meant to be the same cometary debris or a fresh one. I must admit that I was wrong to assert that the failure to publish this will result in the demise of humanity, it will merely be billions of deaths.

[Wavytone]

Worse... these people are legally required to vote and I'm sure there are a few among our current members of parliament.

[bojan]

I had a look at his discussion on Euclid geometry.... :rofl:
And that was enough!

[sjastro]

This dropkick who uses the F or C word in every second sentence when one converses with him has a rather chequered history.

He jailed for 33 months for industrial espionage amongst other things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gaede

Regards

Steven

[blink138]

wow he lost me after his "belly button logic"
pat

[TrevorW]

One of mans greatest achievements is our own propensity towards stupidity

[Stardrifter_WA]

Now, ain't that the truth :)