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On Jul 18, 10:07�pm, ben_dolan_...@reet.com (Ben Dolan) wrote:
> rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 18, 8:44?am, ben_dolan_...@reet.com (Ben Dolan) wrote:
> > > BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > > > > I am doing it seriously. ?What matters are the equations, not the
> > > > > money.
>
> > > > Well okay, when you're published, let us know!
>
> > > You know, I've been reading Bobby's ardent defense of his "equations"
> > > year after year. It really is quite bizarre.
>
> > > This week's podcast of This American Life contains a segment which is
> > > eerily similar. A man, high school educated, working as an electrician,
> > > with no physics education concluded that "E = mc squared" was false. He
> > > quit his job and spent a year working on his theory, believing with
> > > every fiber of his being that he had found a mistake which every
> > > physicist (including Einstein) had missed.
>
> > > Of course, it turned out the guy was completely off base, making
> > > mistakes a first year physics student wouldn't. But when that was
> > > pointed out to him (for example, that the units in his calculations
> > > don't match), he of course refused to believe it, claiming instead that
> > > the physics "elite" were just out to get him. It really was sadly
> > > comical.
>
> > > One of the interesting bits that came out of the story is just how many
> > > crackpots like this guy are out there. Apparently it has been observed
> > > often enough that physicists have numerous stories of encounters with
> > > these nutcases, and they always follow the same pattern. They believe
> > > they have discovered something everyone else missed, and they completely
> > > block out any rebuttal or debunking of their argument. One professor
> > > commented that such behavior is usually associated with schizophrenia.
>
> > > Bobby follows this exact same pattern.
>
> > > And of course, schizophrenia has also long been associated with
> > > pathological religious beliefs, so in Bobby's case, we have a
> > > "twofer"...
>
> > Well, the thing to do then, it seems to me, would be to show the
> > dispproof of these equations. �No physicist has done it.
>
> Sorry, child. If you haven't listened to the scores of people who have
> clearly shown your foolishness to you, there's no chance you'll listen
> to it now.
>
> Of course, it is also well established that schizophrenics have a hard
> time recognizing their own illness, or the behaviors associated with it.
>
> So, the thing to do then, it seems to me, would be to admit that you are
> mentally ill, and that your so called equations are simply a
> manifestation of that illness. No schizophrenic has done it...- Hide quoted text -
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You have not yet admitted that I am not your child, Satan.
Robert B. Winn