SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
The Fine print: The following are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Journal by Gaaark
Do you want free energy?
Do you want Star Trek replicators?
QI got funding...over a $million!
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.ca
What's dark matter done for YOU lately?
Can I buy stock in this guy?
Boldly go...Star Trek style! (Go Boldly? Supposeably....)
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 14 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
(1)
(1)
innovate, v.:
To annoy people.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:57PM
Now, I'd like to premiere my own grand unified hypothesis before launching my website (physicsfromthefridge.science).
I'm calling my theory "Quackery Infinitum", it's a work in progress but you should all invest early at oneborneveryminute.science
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @03:20PM (1 child)
https://xkcd.com/1758/ [xkcd.com]
(Score: 2, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:00PM
Except it does fit the data: better than dark matter!
Read up!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Insightful) by turgid on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:09PM (8 children)
Really? The proof is in the pudding. I'll believe it when I see independently repeated and verified experiments.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:59PM (7 children)
I'll believe in dark matter when IT is independently repeated and verified experimentally (or even brought above hand waving fantasy).
At least now he's getting a FRACTION of the money spent on chasing DM: hopefully he'll get more.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday May 01 2018, @10:47PM (6 children)
Two wrongs do not a right make (but three lefts do). One of the things about Physics and Nature in general is that energy is usually conserved. As an old curmudgeon and party pooper I would say that not having to carry all that rocket fuel smells like a fishy old rat and that energy must come from somewhere. Unfortunately, I am getting old and my brain is turning into Swiss cheese so that's all you're getting. Sorry.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday May 02 2018, @12:20AM (5 children)
https://undergroundscience.net/other/leaked-nasa-paper-shows-their-impossible-emdrive-engine-actually-works-video/ [undergroundscience.net]
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/nasa-impossible-emdrive-physics-peer-review-space-science/ [nationalgeographic.com]
Could be wrong, but I like the idea, the science better than dark matters non-predictive, created just to save General Relativity, has yet to be found even after spending hundreds of millions of dollars....kind of 'science'.
The only reason dark matter was thought up was to save General Relativity: but we know Einstein has been wrong before
http://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-prove-spooky-action-distance-absolutely-real/ [iflscience.com]
so why leave the scientific method behind JUST to save GR?
His theory
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.ca [blogspot.ca]
is interesting and follows the scientific method. Hopefully with him getting funding, he can move science back to reality.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 02 2018, @05:06AM (4 children)
What's non-predictive about dark matter? It has mass (else it wouldn't be even the slightest use in explaining anomalies in a theory of gravitation)? That makes it observable. We already know that there's a lot of matter, like neutrinos and rogue planets (that is, non-stars that don't orbit stars) that are hard to observe.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday May 02 2018, @11:03AM (3 children)
GR predicted that light should bend under gravity: it did.
QI predicts the emdrive, which NASA says works.
Dark matter predicts? Nothing, because it is a kludge to make GR work: this galaxy has 600 'gravities'. To make GR right, it needs 900 gravities to keep from flying apart, so there are 300 gravities of dark matter in this galaxy.
Dark matter is just a mathematical 'fix' to make GR not wrong.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 02 2018, @01:57PM (2 children)
So does a lot of other theories involving bad experimental setup. Keep in mind the thrust is on the order of thrust from the microwaves alone.
Mass that is hard to see via EM wavelengths.
And yet it can still exist.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday May 02 2018, @08:04PM (1 child)
>>>So does a lot of other theories involving bad experimental setup
Like dark matter, but they spend hundreds of millions on it while still finding nothing.
Meh, it's like arguing the existence of God. You say God, I say potato. :)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 02 2018, @09:53PM
They've found neutrinos and some evidence capping the collective mass of MACHOs, for example. And the gravity lensing stuff is quite interesting in that it can indirectly find such mass distributions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @07:04PM (1 child)
Civilizations learn to exploit the vacuum energy, leading to their eventual destruction. This is the true explanation for the Fermi Paradox. Gaaark is partially to blame for hyping the instruments of our doom.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday May 02 2018, @07:41PM
I’m a great believer in all forms of energy. This includes renewable energies and the technologies of the future. Now Canada has found free energy. And maybe they want to send some to us. Subject to a renegotiation of terms by us -- we're going to renegotiate some of the terms -- and if they'd like, we'll see if we can get that pipeline built.