Re: [Pen-l] I want to know

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> That would be a pretty sweet quote to have.
> In the meantime, speaking of crankery/crackpottery, Boyer is here talking
> about scientific crackpots, but I imagine it would be easy to understand
> this in terms of economics.
> http://www.cognitionandculture.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=435:how-i-found-glaring-errors-in-einsteins-calculations&catid=57:pascals-blog&Itemid=34
> for your amusement.

the first paragraph is great:
>Call me radical, call me a maverick. Rather than slavishly swallowing the scientific orthodoxy from establishment textbooks, I decided to go back to the original papers. I have identified several embarassing errors of mathematics and physical reasoning in Einstein’s original 1905 paper on the “Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”, the alleged beginning of “special relativity”, one of the main tenets of standard modern physics (despite its manifest absurdity). Once Einstein’s errors are corrected, we can establish a new foundation for physics that is consistent with commonsense experience, and does not require fancy mathematical tricks. Not surprisingly, I have been thwarted in all my attempts to publish these findings in scientific journals, which is why I have decided to post them on the Internet.<

(his tongue is securely lodged in his cheek.)

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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