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Or at least someone smarter than me does:
http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/
Job opening to work on actual science instead of hand-wavy, platform nine and three quarters, oompa-loompa dark matter magic.
There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing
Is it raining, is it snowing
Is a hurricane a-blowing
Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of Hell a-glowing
Is the grisly reaper mowing
Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing
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innovate, v.:
To annoy people.
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Tuesday October 23 2018, @03:30PM
I am not 100% on his whole situation, I am certainly not a physics postdoc, but my understanding is that he hopes to eventually be able to escape orbit on pure QI, as well as perform terrestrial tasks. Also Buzzy, you shouldn't forget the incalculable gain removing some fragment of humanity from the surface of the planet would be.
One thing I haven't seen, and didn't find in a cursory search, is what his detractors say about his theories. I can find plenty of people who complain that a quack got DARPA money, but nowhere a refutation of his ideas directly. Frankly dark matter has always seemed hand wavy to me, but he seems to be regarded as a fool by and large, and I would like to know why. I fear it may be a domain knowledge thing where I don't know the right key words to find the objections or I may not comprehend them (yet).