tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post7922098560715016541..comments2024-01-08T09:37:04.406+01:00Comments on RÉSONAANCES: 2014 Mad Hat awardsJesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08947218566941608850noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-11707534906476433962015-01-05T12:44:15.414+01:002015-01-05T12:44:15.414+01:00Haha, what fun! Let's insult some physicists! ...Haha, what fun! Let's insult some physicists! As long as they are too weak to do our host here any harm, of course!Rastus Odinga Odingahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615544434035028500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-57374314862366893242015-01-04T01:17:25.690+01:002015-01-04T01:17:25.690+01:00Sounds to me like the general modus operandi of re...Sounds to me like the general modus operandi of recent decades in theoretical physics.Robert L. Oldershawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396555790655312393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-19300985892755505352015-01-03T11:15:13.297+01:002015-01-03T11:15:13.297+01:00This paper attempts to explain an anomaly in a com...This paper attempts to explain an anomaly in a complicated observable affected by messy conventional physics. To do so, they invoke a speculative new physics model and a mechanism that is probably unphysical. Naively, one expects the solar axion conversion signal to be observed from the direction toward (not perpendicular to) the sun, and the paper does nothing to show it is otherwise. Jesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08947218566941608850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-43761793739275871452015-01-02T19:06:10.596+01:002015-01-02T19:06:10.596+01:00Hi, could you explain in more detail what you thin...Hi, could you explain in more detail what you think are the errors made in this paper; I am quite interested in it. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-8027548901850608232015-01-02T13:03:44.320+01:002015-01-02T13:03:44.320+01:00Brilliant
MichelBrilliant<br /><br />MichelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-42238449699712171642015-01-02T10:37:00.485+01:002015-01-02T10:37:00.485+01:00Anon, the Mad Hat awards are supposed to play the ...Anon, the Mad Hat awards are supposed to play the same role as the Golden Raspberry awards in the movie industry. Jesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08947218566941608850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-12245732138106739432015-01-02T00:01:33.116+01:002015-01-02T00:01:33.116+01:00I'd keep an eye on these guys, journalists mig...I'd keep an eye on these guys, journalists might be just around the corner: <br />http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1678<br /><br />Also, you are my hero for receiving such a first-of-the-year reader comment! <br />Have a great 2015.tulpoeidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-9855323325388297182015-01-01T21:28:34.098+01:002015-01-01T21:28:34.098+01:00You do not do full justice to the deep insights of...You do not do full justice to the deep insights of this paper. Even allowing for the hard-left-turn X-rays, and even granting that the only explanation for a seasonal modulation is axionic, there would *still* be no relation to axion dark matter: as the axions are produced in the sun by the regular Primakoff effect, and the sun is not dark matter, it would still tell us nothing about what constituted dark matter!piscatorhttp://www.anon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2846514233477399562.post-86701530296481587492015-01-01T18:02:11.423+01:002015-01-01T18:02:11.423+01:00When you say "axion dark matter is clearly th...When you say "axion dark matter is clearly the most plausible explanation" are you supporting their claims or are you being sarcastic? If so, why or why not? Sorry, I couldn't quite tell if you think they did good work or not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com