mixed_biscuits
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'Extremely basic errors', none of which you can point out (other than the error of not having gifs on his webpage or something)
Intuitionist Maths might help reconcile quantum physics and relativity
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Mr. Tea
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I could, but there's no point because you lack the physics knowledge to understand it, and then you just go off on some waffly and entire semantic tangent and chalk it up as a "win".
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Win
Mr. Tea
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I mean, do my explanations make any sense to you:
"We also have no evidence or data showing that matter and anti-matter annihilate one another." - not true, we have decades of experimental data from colliders that worked by annihilating matter and antimatter, e.g. protons and antiprotons at the Tevatron (Fermilab, USA), and electrons and positrons (anti-electrons) at LEP, CERN.
"Our experiments only show that when matter and anti-matter collide, our machines cannot detect any residue." - the detectors in these experiments measure all sorts of particles being produced as a result of the annihilation, so again, flatly wrong.
"However, since our machines are measuring E/M residue, it is possible that both the matter and anti-matter have simply stopped acting in a detectable manner." - hard to even make out what he's saying here. But it's certainly possible to detect uncharged particles, such as neutrons and neutral pions, so it's no as if only charged particles can be measured. And particles of matter and antimatter are produced in equal quantities in these experiments, and both can be, and are, measured by the detectors.
"For instance, if E/M detection is ultimately a matter of spins or angular momenta..." - well it's not.
"...then both matter and anti-matter could become undetectable simply by losing all spins. In this way, colliding anti-matter and matter cancel spins, which greatly reduces energies, and completely reduces detection in a magnetic field." - completely meaningless, and since spin is a conserved quantity, particles cannot simply "lose" their spin.
Basically, about half of this is wrong, and about half of it is what Pauli used to call "not even wrong", in other words, so garbled and confused that it can't even put into the category of "wrong", because that would imply the existence of enough coherent thought that you could explain why it was wrong.
"We also have no evidence or data showing that matter and anti-matter annihilate one another." - not true, we have decades of experimental data from colliders that worked by annihilating matter and antimatter, e.g. protons and antiprotons at the Tevatron (Fermilab, USA), and electrons and positrons (anti-electrons) at LEP, CERN.
"Our experiments only show that when matter and anti-matter collide, our machines cannot detect any residue." - the detectors in these experiments measure all sorts of particles being produced as a result of the annihilation, so again, flatly wrong.
"However, since our machines are measuring E/M residue, it is possible that both the matter and anti-matter have simply stopped acting in a detectable manner." - hard to even make out what he's saying here. But it's certainly possible to detect uncharged particles, such as neutrons and neutral pions, so it's no as if only charged particles can be measured. And particles of matter and antimatter are produced in equal quantities in these experiments, and both can be, and are, measured by the detectors.
"For instance, if E/M detection is ultimately a matter of spins or angular momenta..." - well it's not.
"...then both matter and anti-matter could become undetectable simply by losing all spins. In this way, colliding anti-matter and matter cancel spins, which greatly reduces energies, and completely reduces detection in a magnetic field." - completely meaningless, and since spin is a conserved quantity, particles cannot simply "lose" their spin.
Basically, about half of this is wrong, and about half of it is what Pauli used to call "not even wrong", in other words, so garbled and confused that it can't even put into the category of "wrong", because that would imply the existence of enough coherent thought that you could explain why it was wrong.
Mr. Tea
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Another victory for Team Dunning-Kruger!Win
mixed_biscuits
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Half of the above is your not being able to parse the grammar/logic and the rest is based on his alternative theories (so obv would be inconsistent with the theory he's critiquing).
Mr. Tea
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Yes, that must be it. I'm just too stupid to understand his mind-bending "theory."
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His aim is to explain all of the physical phenomena strictly mechanically with no fudge of any flavour and he uses spin a lot.
Leo
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I hope you have an enjoyable 4th of July, @Clinamenic. Always nice to commemorate and celebrate our escape from the clutches of this imperial lot.
Mr. Tea
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What would it take, I wonder, to get you to admit that you haven't got the faintest fucking clue what you're on about?
mixed_biscuits
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Modern physics, when failing to explain things in the orthotrad mechanomanner of the old masters, resorts to mathematical meandering and metaphysical mumbo-jumbo
Mr. Tea
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In the spirit of a stopped clock telling the right time twice a day, yes, physics uses mathematics to express itself, which Prof Timecube certainly doesn't.
mixed_biscuits
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You make it sound like no mistakes can be made in this personified process...I refer you to the German goalkeeper
mixed_biscuits
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Mr Tea is providing an object lesson in the enervated, panicked response to ideas that threaten the fundament of one's worldview rather than just a detail within it.
Mr. Tea
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I just assumed you'd got Thomas Kuhn's name wrong like you'd got the entire point of his book wrong.
Don't follow football so I hadn't heard of the other guy.
mixed_biscuits
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Madly calling everything wrong, arms spinning, corpse of a fox in the back garden, guts splayed - a lamentable sight
Clinamenic
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Clinamenic
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How could I be so dense?
Clinamenic
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I've never done well under pressure.