tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post989117215126104062..comments2024-01-08T09:37:04.406+01:00Comments on RÉSONAANCES: Crackpot for DummiesJesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08947218566941608850noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-22185710735198383762009-07-12T06:17:10.322+01:002009-07-12T06:17:10.322+01:00Hm, one way to state Moffat's idea is: nonloca...Hm, one way to state Moffat's idea is: nonlocality allows to avoid unitarity issues without introducing a Higgs, if you have a mass generation mechanism. <br /><br />Could this be true?<br /><br />GregAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-38194915896988839442008-05-11T17:00:00.000+01:002008-05-11T17:00:00.000+01:00"...fringe or non-mainstream ideas are important, ...<I>"...fringe or non-mainstream ideas are important, even when they're weird"</I><BR/><BR/>I recently read that after Ernst Mach died it was learned that he considered Einstein's ideas to be weird fringe paradoxical non-sense that would be proven wrong... <BR/><BR/>Unfortunate that Einstein worked so hard to try to win Ernst Mach's respect.<BR/><BR/>What I find weird is the reliance on the 1999 RHIC safety study, (http://www.bnl.gov/<BR/>RHIC/docs/rhicreport.pdf), it did not address the safety of actually creating micro black holes on Earth at all, not possible mbh stability, capture rates or accretion rates...<BR/><BR/>Unsure why it seems to be so cool to just be un-concerned... Weird to me.JTankershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01016299097944020569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-29830751894353440472008-05-09T04:55:00.000+01:002008-05-09T04:55:00.000+01:00Heh, Tommaso invited me to give a talk over your w...Heh, Tommaso invited me to give a talk over your way. But since I rank quite highly on the crackpot index, you might want to have a few words with him.Keahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05652514294703722285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-44372783421235618782008-05-07T23:21:00.000+01:002008-05-07T23:21:00.000+01:00And of course, there's the 'crackpot index' of J. ...And of course, there's the <A HREF="http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html" REL="nofollow">'crackpot index' of J. Baez:</A><BR/><BR/>As in golf, lowest score wins (i.e., the higher your c. index, the less likely you'll be taken seriously).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-41120606161642711082008-05-07T07:30:00.000+01:002008-05-07T07:30:00.000+01:00Hey, that was close to home! I'm an "amateur physi...Hey, that was close to home! I'm an "amateur physicist". I wrote a <A HREF="http://brannenworks.com/MASSES2.pdf" REL="nofollow">paper</A> on the neutrinos predicting their masses to an accuracy of 8 decimal places. I put it up on my website and didn't try to publish it, just went to some physics meetings and gave talks.<BR/><BR/>The result? The paper is <A HREF="http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=1376238&postcount=40" REL="nofollow">cited</A> in the published, peer reviewed physics literature four times, LOL.CarlBrannenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17180079098492232258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-83745049492948999152008-05-07T06:43:00.000+01:002008-05-07T06:43:00.000+01:00I'm not doing very well on your requirements. Any...I'm not doing very well on your requirements. Any suggestions?L. Riofriohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02692071626849849079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-18495161880431813882008-05-07T00:07:00.000+01:002008-05-07T00:07:00.000+01:00Can I book some seminar room say next September? I...Can I book some seminar room say next September? If you are interested on the bridge, I also got a Sbootstrap theory to sell you...Alejandro Riverohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181521111080562335noreply@blogger.com