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21st December 2010, 05:39 PM | #1 |
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Nassim Haramein's unified theory enters mainstream science!
While perusing Scepcops site I came across this
http://www.shamanicattraction.com/bl...d-field-theory This Winston fellow aka scepcop states.
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If you care to read what more Winston says follow the link http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/for...hp?f=11&t=1563 |
21st December 2010, 05:49 PM | #2 |
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21st December 2010, 05:53 PM | #3 |
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Moreover, it appears to be a completely insane conference. http://www2.ulg.ac.be/mathgen/CHAOS/CASYS.html |
21st December 2010, 06:14 PM | #4 |
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So is the American Institute of Physics website representational of:
a. Good science, done well (solid, well-reasoned, valid). b. Good science, badly done (sloppy, guesswork, iffy). c. Bad science, done well (might fool the tinfoil-hat crowd). d. Bad science, badly done (even the tinfoil-hat crowd might laugh). |
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21st December 2010, 09:11 PM | #5 |
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22nd December 2010, 06:46 AM | #6 |
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Looking over the AIP site the word networking hub I think would better identify it's purpose. Looking at the magazine Physics Today the articles look sound. I searched for Nassim Haramein within the magazine no results. He does appear on the home site under this *link . However, I'm unable to find the article on that page. But like Ben said they will list your conferences etc. without stated or implied endorsement. AIP also lists a number of other publications none of which have even the slightest whiff of woo about them. Thanks Ben for the help. * http://www.aip.org/aip/search_result...%2Fpubs%2F#161 |
22nd December 2010, 07:08 AM | #7 |
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Here's a self described teacher of physics and math, who writes a blog:
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22nd December 2010, 07:12 AM | #8 |
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i have heard his theory fails becuase he just asumes that the mass of a proton is the way he wants it. But that stuff is way above my head
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22nd December 2010, 09:29 AM | #9 |
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Let me add this link to explain AIP's "involvement"
http://proceedings.aip.org/organizers/publish_with_aip |
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22nd December 2010, 02:15 PM | #11 |
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I'm having fun with the rest of this conference program.
My guess at what's going on: it looks like there's some subfield of computer science/dynamical systems modeling, that ostensibly runs this conference. For some reason this subfield also attracts sort of woo "deep thoughts about the emergent nature of consciousness, whoa, dude" people who are happy to venture into the pseudo-relativity and pseudo-quantum speculations. However, I think that one or two of the conference organizers are outright physics crackpots in their spare time, and I think that they sent the call-for-papers email out to the European crackpot community. This results in such papers as the following:
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I suspect that all phenomena is plasmoid phenomena, and that galaxies, atoms, and particles are plasmoids. Plasmoids seem to be basically an electrical-magnetic phenomena. In other articles(1,2), I've described plasmoids and plasmoid behavior extensively, and shown that plasmoids are responsible for the excess energy and transmutation effects observed in various kinds of "cold fusion" apparatus."
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22nd December 2010, 04:42 PM | #12 |
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Thank you, ben m, your post is informative and entertaining .
"Mainstream science" it ain't. Mainstream philosophy - quite possibly. |
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