Letter to all physicists, astronomers and scientists ...
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.
Cheers,
Af.
P.S. Hoping Jake Wodhams isn't a member of these forums!
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 in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.[1]
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.[1]
Bert
Ah-ha!
I knew there was reason I can't get IKEA furniture together!
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!
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.
Last edited by AstralTraveller; 23-04-2013 at 01:29 PM.
Reason: Update
holy smoke, there are some scary people out there...
OMG
