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Rejected Science, my A**e!
almond13 said:There are two ways of dealing with an upstart like me.
almond13 said:It's only one hundred years away from the date I gave and a sudden interest in Venus. I can't for the life of me see how you can use this to debunk me? I'd be interested in your comments on this.
almond13 said:The planet Venus was born in the first half of the second millennium. In the third millennium only four planets could have been seen,
The cats he drowned came back from the dead
Didn't Babbage cut her loose after she also proposed to help him with his business dealings, which he was completely crap at?Looking back to post #32.
I don't see Ada Lovelace amongst the great and good.
Surprising as she wrote the worlds first computer program and has a programing language named after her.
But maybe it is understandable as she stood on Charles Babbage's toes by wishing to be included in the credits for the work they did together.
And so it always was.
Do you mean Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS?You want another ?
Joscelin Bell.
INT21
Looking back to post #32.
I don't see Ada Lovelace amongst the great and good.
Surprising as she wrote the worlds first computer program and has a programing language named after her.
But maybe it is understandable as she stood on Charles Babbage's toes by wishing to be included in the credits for the work they did together.
And so it always was.
You want another ?
Joscelin Bell.
INT21
Can anyone recommend some good books/articles on the morphogenic field? Besides Sheldrake's works.
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Eric Weinstein's Error
Eric Weinstein has released his highlyself-aggrandizedanticipated research paper on geometric unity.
I read the paper. I gave it a solid hour or two. I did read the whole thing.
The paper is not really a research paper, it's a collection of briefly formalized mathematical intuitions combined with some comments about how these intuitions could possibly be turned into a significant finding, plus a number of paranoid intuitions about why and how this significant finding is thwarted by various political forces.
I'm not sure we've seen this kind of megalomania since Nietzsche. To be clear, I would say that's a compliment, given that Nietzsche was the absolute chad of late-19th century Europe. What happens to this kind of intellectual temperament in the 21st century is, of course, a different question.
I was mostly interested in this paper as an example of what a sophisticated outsider intellectual could do, after having gained a large social-media audience. For a couple years now, I've been listening to Eric's story about his suppressed theory, which, he has claimed, overturns all of modern economic theory, transcends Satoshi Nakamoto's conception of the blockchain, and more.
And how could you accurately replicate a 200 year old experiment, with regard to things like the exact composition of the glassware used, whatever was used to sterilise beforehand, the sealant used to creeate a closed environment, the method of generating electricity...One wonders if such experiments would be successful nowadays.
There's a telling slant on this in an episode of Yes, Prime Minister. (written by people wth direct experience of how Government works)OK, you’re telling me that the government rejects such things without consulting scientific advisors.
A weird article on "WTF" (I really can't summarize that), nowretracted. And the Twitter thread with more:
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Yes I would be honoured. But I myself would probably nominate the "dumb cops who parked a car with a suspect on the rails" or "Somerton Man identified".@uair01, may I ask your permission to nominate you for the FMB's WTF award? For possibly the weirdest posting ever - and you know you have a lot of competition here. I'm thinking of an annual event, with different categories, like the Nobel or ig-Nobel prizes. Oh please say yes!
Thanks. Yes, there are so many excellent posts....Yes I would be honoured. But I myself would probably nominate the "dumb cops who parked a car with a suspect on the rails" or "Somerton Man identified".