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snoyes 16:09, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on modern geocentrism. :-) Evercat 13:50, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the honest perspective. I cannot make you (or any one else) "believe" in geo-centrism, but it clearly is as feasible as heliocentrism, discounting the notion of natural simplicity (i.e., God would likely have to have willed it for it to turn out this way). Does understanding that fact make you wonder sometimes? Truth_Seeker.
I call the fusing of nuclei heavier than iron nucleosynthesis. I use nuclear fusion to describe the creation of a heavier nucleus from lighter nuclei in a process that releases energy. But I see that the article is not written from that point of view; which is why I didn't re-edit. Off topic, but you seemed to be very contentious and appeared to be trying to condescend; unnecessary. ProfessorToomin ( talk) 17:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
I saw that you were basically the only one to edit the Langmuir probe page. I was wondering if you had any knowledge in Langmuir himself. I am currently working on reworking his page (my grandmother was his secretary and i have some of his journals and notes in my possession). 01:33, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I am currently rewriting the article and i just wondered if you would like to help, (I am rewriting the article in word and either tonight or tomorrow night i will upload it to wikipedia), i was wondering if you would be willing to look through it for spelling or grammar errors after i upload to wikipedia thanks. I live in Gainesville Florida, but i was born in Munich Germany so its a small world eh, (my german is rather bad i can speak it but wirting it is a whole differnt story) bakuzjw (aka 578) 20:36, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I think Wikipedia could use a page on emmisive probes. I found the page on Langmuir probes very helpful. I don't know if you have the knowledge to start such an article, but perhaps you might know someone who could. Just an idea.
I just came upon the Langmuir Probe page yesterday. I would like to refer you to the overview article written by Larry Brace in "Measurement techniques in space plasmas: particles"
By Robert F. Pfaff, Joseph E. Borovsky
< http://books.google.com/books?id=3pBNNEykLIIC&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false> which speaks to spaceflight LP's that he was involved with from 1959 (IGY) through Pioneer Venus (1978-1992) and Dynamics Explorer 2 (ca. 1980). The paper includes an extensive bibliography. Unfortunately, Larry is no longer with us to answer followup questions.
I was flight electronics designer for the PV and DE-2 and would like to question the line at the end of the Single Probe section stating that the need for "sophisticated electronics..." is a driver to go to multiple probes. Larry used two probes at right angles on PV, but they were used as two independent single probes. The Instrument had several pre-programmed operating modes that could independently be applied to each of the probes. Either of the Krehbiel, et. al., articles in the bibliography will give details on the Instrument system design. Wpinkus ( talk) 01:32, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
A fair "compromise"; but I fear that it will probably be declared too wordy by the homeopathy apologists and watered down/removed. Jooler 20:09, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I do not appreciate your reversals of the Totally Disputed tag. I have detailed precisely what points are factually incorrect and misleading, and I think readers need to be made aware that your version of the truth is disputed. -- Leifern 15:16, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
Off the top of my head:
I realize you and Geni have decided your grasp on science exceeds that of anybody who disagrees with you, but I have caught a) Geni making so many wrong assertions about statistics, rhetorical fallacies, and clinical trials that he has lost all credibility, and b) being polemic about the topic, that it's clear that this article is worthless for anyone who is interested in learning about the topic (as opposed to being indoctrinated on one perspective). -- Leifern 15:50, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
The infobox removed had two versions - one added manually into the article, and the other, containing the same information and formatting, that could be added through use of a template. The template version was deleted, which means that manual versions of it are bad for comparable reasons (In this case, because of a consensus that it was not really an infobox at all). In this case, if you wanted to preserve the information, I'd suggest categories, or simply adding the relevent facts into the text of the article. Snowspinner 13:48, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
To see the infobox on Acupuncture and Homeopathy simply click on their repective history hyperlink. Then look for my name and click on the time and date stamp to the left of my name and you will see an old version of the respective articles complete with the very useful infobox that Snowspinner keeps on deleting. -- John Gohde 13:21, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
« With some exceptions, nuclei lighter than iron release energy when they fuse, while heavier nuclei absorb energy [...] ». What exceptions had you in mind? I can't think of any.
Urhixidur 19:19, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)
There exist certain metastable nuclei, at the very least, which fuse and also release a ton of alphas. I don't know any specific one, but that might be how to find one. Danielfong 08:59, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to gather information to update the fusor article (see Talk:Farnsworth-Hirsch_Fusor#updates), and found this article. Unless there's a large secret underground organization of PhD physicists named Art Carlson, I'm going to assume it was written by you. Do you have a link to a current version? I just get dead links everywhere else. Or perhaps you changed your mind and took it down? Regardless, I bet you could help expand on the article... - Omegatron 18:53, May 2, 2005 (UTC)
Can I have your vote on whether to move the page to Fusor? Talk:Farnsworth-Hirsch_Fusor#Rename_to_plain_old_.22Fusor.22_or_.22Fusor_tube.22.3F - Omegatron 23:41, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Art. Thanks for merging the Faraday disc and homopolar generator articles: you did a good job. I found the disc to be a fascinating subject. When I started the article I thought I was writing about a simple dynamo, but then I realised that I had to learn about the Lorentz force, and to understand that I had to read about special relativity. I'm hoping that providing an easy-to-read explanation in Wikipedia will help combat the unnecessary mysticism that surrounds this device. Regards, -- Heron 29 June 2005 09:24 (UTC)
Hi again, Art. User:Occultations has just queried your addition of the "Configuration without a return path" section to the Faraday Paradox article, and I have to say I agree with him, although I'm an engineer and not a physicist. Could you give a reference to back up your information, please? (And it would be nice to know whether anybody has verified it experimentally.) You seem to be saying that either (1) the field is not uniform, so its rotation can have an effect on the disc, or (2) somehow the disc knows that the source of the field is rotating, even though the field itself is uniform. Which of these statements is true, or are they both wrong? -- Heron 22:45, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
See: Talk:Inertial electrostatic confinement Maury 5 July 2005 21:43 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting out aether. You might perhaps be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Pseudoscience and Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Physics. William M. Connolley 08:32:13, 2005-07-13 (UTC).
Could you ask User:Reddi to respond on the Talk:Plasma cosmology page? He seems to have decided I'm not worth discussing.
If this fails, would you support an RfC against User:Reddi? He responded on his talk page that he will not respond to my comments because he considers me a troll.
Thanks, -- Joshuaschroeder 20:56, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Now he's at it on the Quasi-steady state cosmology page. I'm going to start the RfC.
-- Joshuaschroeder 21:42, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I've started the RfC here: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Reddi. Joshuaschroeder 22:17, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I have added a request for comment on Eric Lerner's editing, at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Elerner. Please take a look at it and endorse if you feel it is appropriate. – Joke137 00:23, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Art, If you would, please take a moment to comment on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Pseudoscience/Proposed_decision, since you have experience discussing aneutronic fusion with Lerner. Thanks. ABlake 21:01, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Arbitrartion request for Reddi's refusal to engage me. I don't know what else to do at this point: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration.
-- Joshuaschroeder 18:16, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Your comment on the redshift page just disappeared, but here are the references.
-- Iantresman 21:04, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Your input to an RfC at Talk:Depleted uranium#Request for Comments would be appreciated. DV8 2XL 07:51, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
User:Iantresman is using you as a supporter of his RfC that he thinks was inappropriately closed. Can you comment on the Talk:Redshift page please? Thanks, -- ScienceApologist 15:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I have suggested a small panel of users competent in science to evaluate editors of scientific articles. Please comment at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Reddi_2/Workshop#Troika. Fred Bauder 20:26, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Art, sorry for bothering you, but I wonder if you could help with a problem. The foxes appear to be guarding the henhouse in the cold fusion article. Could you have a look at the talk page, and also Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/Cold fusion? Much obliged. – Joke 19:26, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
There's currently a controversy at Cold fusion that I would appreciate it if you could look at. The article is about to fail a Featrued Article Removal Candidate vote. There are at least 3 fairly different versions in play: one based on the original Featured Article dating back to 2004-08-20 and tossing out all edits between now and then [3] ("FA version"), one which was the current version up until that [4] ("current version"), and a proposed new draft written originally by Edmund Storms (a retired Los Alamos scientist) and edited by me [5] ("Storms version"). At the moment the article is being rather agressively edited by a few people who support the version from a year ago, and if this stands, a lot of good material will be lost. Frankly, I can't entirely support any of the versions; the article just needs more work and more different perspectives. Hence this invitation. I hope you can help.
I'm posting this to you because I've seen you on various physics-related pages, and/or because you've worked on the Cold fusion page before. Thank you for your time.
ObsidianOrder 06:24, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Be assured the pdf exits on the web on a Royal Society server. I downloaded it round about 2000 GMT. It is itself a review, so summarising a conclusion in one sentence would be 'Singer did review'!.If it's characterisable as POV, then we are all doomed! Please track down and read so we can reach an agreed position. Bob aka Linuxlad 21:20, 14 January 2006 (UTC) Here's the link (it was still on an open page!)
I found it quite high up Google earlier- but it seems to not be in pole position now (odd, but not unknown). Tend to agree it probably shouldn't be in Intro. But its general style seemed appropriate to what finally goes there. Bob aka Linuxlad
Hi I gave a little more precision on the Tired light Talk page. Is his mechanism clear now? I would be interested to discuss a little more about it if you like, although it won't be fast as I don't have much time. Harald88 08:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Art, are you not a big name in the world of drowsing? I think I remember seeing your name in some drowsing literature I picked up from the library. I don't mean to accuse you of being POV. I just thought it would be cool to be arguing with someone of your status. JohnJohn 02:52, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I have a friend who works for the LaGrange water department. One day I saw him working by the road and stopped to talk. I was astonished to see him walking around with a dowsing rod. What are you doing? I asked him. "Looking for the pipe" he replied matter of factly. "But don't you have electronics to do that?" "Sure, but this works just as good. Finds plastic too." he said. That's when my friends helper chimed in "I have a friend who doesn't believe it." Tommysun 19:27, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
So, I have dutifully taken the mediation of plasma cosmology. Before we start, I would like to know what form of mediation you would like to take? You guys basically have three options: the first (and most popular) is to just do it on the wiki, probably at Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Plasma cosmology. The second is to do it by email (I wouldn't recommend it as there are quite a few users listed). And the third is to do it be IRC. Please respond at Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Plasma cosmology where you would like to do it. Thanks. Sasquatch t| c 05:18, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but I was impressed with your command of plasma physics on the plasma talk page, and I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. In a one atmosphere uniform glow Discharge plasma (OAUGDP) what is the voltage drop for a large current, say 1000 amps, running across it? Is there an equation that one could use to compute this for different voltages? Thanks a lot for your patience. cc 24.137.78.34 00:00, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Art. First, I'd like to say that I really respect what you've done so far. It's very impressive (especially your help in the fusion FAQ and the glossary), and your pages have lead me onto an entirely different path of inquiry.
I have a question and concern regarding your repeated citation of Rider's thesis and paper, however. Unfortunately, I can't access the thesis (the links that I could find were all down), nor could I read your review of the paper. Perhaps you still have some copies. In any case, certain statements seemed spurious, and they appeared to be highlighted in the following poster at the APS meeting. I haven't looked at Rider's calculation directly, but the poster notices that Rider assumes that the velocity space is always isotropic, and then proves that the redistribution power required for at least one example is smaller than the ideal fusion power. I see that you cite many of Rider's original paper's without taking this vulnerablity into account. Could you look into this? Is the jury still out on this issue? Articles referencing fundamental limitations and claiming 'impossibility' should really at -least- mention that there is some controversy. From my, admittedly green, standpoint, it looks like there really is a problem with some of the impossibility claims. We should look into this quickly, and revert if necessary. Kindly, Danielfong 09:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I may (from a purely theoretical viewpoint) agree that my addition [7] did not add "content", in exactly the same sense that any mathematical theorem does not add content, although it may be surprising or revealing. But what makes you call it POV? I'm about as puzzled by your comment as you would presumably have been, had someone reverted your debunking of the hypothesis that ball lightning is a highly ionized plasma contained by magnetic fields with the comment "POV addition that doesn't add content". Lambiam Talk 18:02, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Geocentrism has been fully disproven by modern science. Science has now shown that the Sun is at the center of the solar system, not the Earth. Further, the Sun is not the center of the universe; it is merely the center of one local solar system, and itself orbits around the center of our galaxy. Space probes which have visited the other planets in our solar system have followed paths which were calculated using Heliocentrism; if the geocentric model were true, then none of these spaceships could ever have arrived at their target planets or moons.
I've started a tentative article on Redshift quantization -- Iantresman 15:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I've started an article on the " Pinch (plasma physics)" over which you may wish to cast your more experienced eye. I've not merged with Z-pinch, since the latter seems more about the Z-pinch machine, rather than the process. -- Iantresman 16:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Art, you seem to be (one of) the resident experts on fusion, can I ask your opinion of Eric Lerner's attempts to get proton-boron fusion to produce net energy? From what I have read on your talk page, it seems that you agree with Tod Rider's thesis that dismisses p-11B as a viable fuel mix for a future fusion power reactor. Would I be correct in assuming that in your opinion Lerner has not addressed Rider's criticisms either in whole or in part? -- User:Jaganath 13:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Art for replying so quickly and taking the time to craft a comprehensible and detailed reply. Seems like p-11B fusion still faces huge, if not insurmountable problems before it can become a future energy source; in light of this, can I ask if you think ITER, and (spherical) tokamaks in general are the right direction to be going in if we are to harness fusion to produce useful power within your or my lifetimes? -- User: Jaganath 18:42, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
You placed a Copyright violation tag on this article. All of the info is from a .mil site. This means it is Public Domain info from the US government. Might be best to remove the tag. Cheers-- Looper5920 09:41, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Just to let you know that I've requested Peer Review for the Plasma physics artciles, discussion should appear on the page at Wikipedia:Peer review/Plasma (physics)/archive1 -- Iantresman 11:06, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
It is clear that this user won't give up. [8] I suggest that from now on we just ignore his ramblings on the talk page. -- Lambiam Talk 22:18, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Art, are you familliar with the "fulcher band"? Being a plasma physicist I thought you'd probably have at least some experience with not so hot H2 plasmas and might be able to help me here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Deuterium arc lamp/archive1. Any input is appreciated! thanks. -- Deglr6328 07:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
User:Iantresman has started a request for arbitration you may wish to comment on WP:RfArb#Pseudoscience__vs_Pseudoskepticism. -- ScienceApologist 12:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher131 11:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Art. In your recent diff [9] , "doesn't jive with" should be "doesn't jibe with". I didn't fix it directly because I didn't want to become part of the case. Cardamon 20:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Nice rewrite of the intro! Much better now. Maury 22:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Would you mind giving Riggatron and Migma a quick once-over? I noticed both were being referred to in various articles but had no articles of their own. Hopefully I've made a start, at least. I did notice an older thread between you and Gordon on whether or not the non-equilibrium issue applies to the Migma approach. Gordon seemed to be suggesting it didn't really apply. What was the outcome here? Maury 15:17, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
...For your hard work on Aneutronic fusion. From the little I've read, I can't really tell if you or Elerner is generally right, but it seems that you are, or he does a really (and un-editor-worthy) lousy job supporting or being careful in his edits, which greatly enhances your credibility in my book. If its any consolation, it seems your edit war has resulted in a better-sourced article. And a very good one, even if it's far from perfection. -- Elvey 09:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Please respond on the Afshar Experiment Talk Page as to whether you would accept impartial mediation for that article. Thank you! Sdirrim 18:10, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed your edits on Quasineutrality.
I'm no scientist, nor do I exactly know the details of what IP 68 added. However a quick Google search did show that this concept might deserve its own page. Even if a stub, we should have a few lines and a seperate section for external links or references which the user can lookup for further details.
Secondly, if you are in a position to improve on the article content, please do so. Calling a good faith edit "worse than useless" isn't right. Allow me to remind you that the majority of WP's content is written by anon IPs, their inaccuracies and irrelevant material can be improved upon, but shouldn't be removed outright.
By your contributions, I see you are an expert in this field, please don't take this as criticism, it isn't. Looking forward to working on an article with you in future :) Cheers! - xC - | ☎ 13:50, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Maybe you should seek an IP ban from the non english speaking folks from editing this article. Or maybe you can ask them to seek someone they know who speaks better english or refer them to the japanese wikipedia. I can see that their edits are irritating in that they are hard to understand because of grammar problems as well as the fact that they are discussing fairly obscure technical details. Mathchem271828 04:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Dear Art, your criterion for notability and Wiki-entries seemed to me very dubious, however I respect your view on the problem. Since Wikipedia is free-encyclopedia and its biographic database is expanding, I have myself been editing several entries on famous bulgarian scientists, yet I have created this entry on Tabish Qureshi, who is known for his analysis of Popper's experiment, and the so-called entangled biphoton wavefunction. Well, this is all based on my old readings done several years ago [when I was not Wikipedian], when I have not even met prof. Qureshi personally. The fact that I have met him in Wikipedia changes nothing, I have opened the entry solely on scientific grounds. You can check the bibliographic list of his publications in the main article. Kind Regards, Danko Georgiev MD 12:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
So let us calculate the evolution of the quantum state in Unruh's setup directly [look my figure 2]:
p.s. contrary to Unruh, I have said that putting the obstacle or NOT does not matter. It is the presence of destructive interference at path 5 itself that "erases" the which way. Look at the expression . You can drop the zero term [comment: multiplied by zero vector |5> cannot be regained without dividing to zero! - impossible math operation]. Indeed the existent negative interference mathematically is formulated like that: . The measurement of the negative interference by obstacle physically mathematically is written like that . So my conclusion is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to have difference in the which way claim for interference + obstacle vs. interference + no obstacle. The mathematical expression is always the SAME . I am excited because it seems Unruh will publish his original 1 page letter-to-editor in PP (full of errors), and as his letter explicitly claims the inconsistency decribed in my sec. 3.3, I will have the beautiful opportunity to publicly solve the Georgiev-Unruh issue in the pages of reputable peer-review journal. Danko Georgiev MD 09:08, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm very busy right now, you may want to post this to WP:ANI where an admin who has time can take of it. JoshuaZ 14:15, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear Art, please see this entry Unruh's interferometer, if you are interetsed in clarification the problem that ocurred with interpreting Unruh's claims. Regards, Danko Georgiev MD 06:56, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your contributions on fusion articles. It's great to have you here to sort things out that the rest of us don't understand.
Is there a reason you haven't contributed to Polywell? — Omegatron 15:23, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
It seems you have pounced ;). I'm suspicious of your use of the words "might" and "verifiable content" together here. I'm not convinced that running the current through the edges of the polyhedron would be the best bet; won't the magnetic field curve at the vertices leaving them unshielded, and a source of electron losses? I can't find anything in the Google transcript. I subconsciously corrected Bussard's truncated cube and truncated dodecahedron into cuboctahedron and icosidodecahedron, respectively, when I tried to work out all the shapes. I suppose if he says "truncated cube" when he means "cuboctahedron with solenoids on the square faces," then when he says "truncated dodecahedron" he means "icosidodecahedron with solenoids on the pentagonal faces." When does filling in the gaps turn into original research? Let's discuss. Eassin 16:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Mea culpa; I should have read instead of using the search function. Bussard does skirt the fact that where the round coils touch the field goes to zero: his models show a progressive decrease in amount of metal sitting in the field lines. I think it has something to do with the fact that quadrupole magnets can only focus in one direction and you should design your vertex based on that. I guess my question is: why do you think the NPG polyhedral grid might be the best way to go, and why didn't Bussard stick with it?
I don't believe for a minute that Bussard is going to save the world; I'm just curious about some basic E&M if you have the time for original research, verging on speculation and outright mind-reading. If not, I've been meaning to read Jackson for many years now anyway. Thanks. Eassin 05:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
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I'm awarding you this barnstar for your particularly fine contributions regarding mathematics or science-related topics! Great work! Wikidudeman (talk) 21:23, 20 June 2007 (UTC) |
I have finished my draft of the Homeopathy article. The draft is a rough approximation of what it should be like. It obviously has some flaws in it's format and wording right now but they will be kinked out within the next couple of days. Right now what I want is for you, if you're interested in helping to improve the article, to come to the articles talk page. There we will all discuss the article and how it could be improved before we replace the current homeopathy article with it. In order for this to work we need to follow a few rules. The first rule, the most important rule, is that no one but me can edit the rough draft. Do not edit the rough draft. This precaution is used to prevent edit warring and loss or addition of information that might not be up to consensus. Don't worry, It's just a draft and you'll have all the time you want to make changes after we've replaced it with the current article. The second rule is that all proposed changes in the rough draft must be made on the talk page of the rough draft and must be clear and concise. At that point anyone involved will discuss the proposed changes and if agreed by consensus they will be implemented. We will do that until there is no disputes or disagreements. After all disputes are hammered out, we will replace the homeopathy article with the rough draft. At that point there shouldn't be anyone needing to make huge edits, and if you do see an edit that you want to make, be sure to add a note on the talk page PRIOR to making the edit so that consensus can be reached and then you should make the edit. If you have any questions you can leave me a message on my talk page. Here is the link to the rough draft Link to rough draft. Wikidudeman (talk) 13:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
The Homeopathy draft seems about ready to go live. I'll wait a few more days and see if any other people make proposed changes though, Tell me what you think of it currently and if you see a problem with it then please propose some changes on the talk page for me to make to it. I want to make sure everyone agrees on the article before replacing it so that edit wars don't instantly begin. Thanks. Wikidudeman (talk) 17:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
FYI. PS. Is your Wiki email address up-to-date? -- 82.80.248.177 10:55, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Can you take another look at the Homeopathy draft? I think it's looking very good and I would appreciate some more input. It has drastically improved since its creation and any input would be great. Thanks. Wikidudeman (talk) 23:08, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey Art, I plan to implement the homeopathy rough draft( link) by September 1st, 5 days from now. Unless of course more proposals are made to change it, in which case I will postpone the implementation until it is ready and agreed upon. Some things concerning the rough draft are still in discussions, which can easily continue once it goes live. An example is the inclusion of mentions of Jacques Benveniste. Other things can easily be fixed after a week or so of copy editors from the general public going over it and removing redundancy and rewording sentences to be more brief and precise, which will cut down size of the article including the lead without removing relevant info. So If by September 1st I receive no more suggestions on improving the rough draft then I will replace the Homeopathy article with it. If you see problems with the draft, please make suggestions on improving it. Even if the suggestions might have already been made, just make a new post with the suggestions so that we can discuss them. Here is the link to the rough draft again: Link to rough draft. Thanks. Wikidudeman (talk) 13:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
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I'm awarding you this barnstar for your help in rewriting the homeopathy article. It is now implemented and hopefully will improve even further in the near future. Great job! Wikidudeman (talk) 14:50, 1 September 2007 (UTC) |
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Thanks, Art, for your recent civil and helpful editing of the Homeopathy article. I for one felt it was a pleasure to work with you. Thanks again. Peter morrell 08:46, 5 September 2007 (UTC) |
Here's the reference to that, It's cited a sentence down from the initial claim. [10]. Wikidudeman (talk) 13:31, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Ernst, E. Homeopathy revisited. Arch Intern Med 1996; 156: 2162 2164.
Please refrain from insulting me. If you would check here you will see a message from you calling me clueless. I don't appreciate this kind of namecalling, please stop doing it. Thanks. SteakNotShake 20:25, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
You are in danger of violating the
three-revert rule on
Flood geology. Please cease further reverts or you may be
blocked from editing. If you want to make big changes, make your case on the talk page.--
Filll
16:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi. With permission from an arbitrator, Iantresman has filed an appeal to the Arbitration Committee, seeking review of the ban against him imposed after discussion at the Community Sanctions Noticeboard, and listed you as a potentially interested party. Your comments would be welcome at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#iantresman indefinite ban appeal. Newyorkbrad 18:40, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
To all involved: please see "My two cents" edit of homeopathy intro here
Friarslantern 22:51, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
The proposal to split the Homeopathy article into separate articles is not a good idea. Prior to the rewrite of the article, It was split into 5 or 6 separate articles. One on the "history" of homeopathy. A few on each tenet of homeopathic philosophy. One on criticism of homeopathy. Etc. This mass of articles was impossible to navigate through and they all generally contained redundant info except for the small amount of info differentiating them per the name of the article. I merged them all into that one article and cut down all of the redundant material. I would suggest that the best way to solve this is not to split the article into other articles but to try to best summarize the scientific studies as a whole. Using only the most reputable and reliable sources or meta-analysis and simply summarizing them in a NPOV manner. Wikidudeman (talk) 16:37, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
You sorted the production grids list on the Grid Computing page (something I approve of in general) but it's not at all clear to me what the criteria for the ordering you used were. Definitely not alphabetic! If there's some other objective criterion involved, please state what it is on that page or change it back to alphabetic. (Alphabetic sucks, but it's the best inherent order we've got without introducing additional information so that we can objectively measure "importance"). Right now, you've made it marginally harder for people to find information about the production grids without any conspicuous counterbalancing benefit, which is hardly improving anything. Donal Fellows 14:51, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Regarding your edit: [12]
Critical density is a "[[Category:Redirects with possibilities|redirect with possibilities]]". It doesn't have its own article now, but it could have one -- maybe I'll even write one, if I can get around to it. Until then it seems to make sense to have links go right to it. As the category page says, "Do not replace these redirected links with a link directly to the target page."
Maybe I'm wrong and no one will ever write an article on it (which would surprise me, since a lot of articles mention it) -- but even then the link still goes to the right place. Of course it will be a redirect until an article is made, but I don't think it's that bad.
I actually often remove redirects myself, but I don't think this is one to remove. Still, since you reverted me, I'll WP:0RR and leave it.
CRGreathouse ( t | c) 16:29, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Arsenicum album, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arsenicum album. Thank you. TableManners C· U· T 03:15, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I agree with your intro in the Carpe Diem section. Anthon01 ( talk) 14:47, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting on the homeopathy page. I think we just need to nip these things in the bud. Some editors don't know when to stop. David D. (Talk) 18:50, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I've just got notice that I've been banned for stonewalling. We have been largely agreeing on the current issues. Any thoughts. Anthon01 ( talk) 17:48, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
The article states: The ideas of homeopathy are scientifically implausible[5][6] and its "theory is diametrically opposed to modern pharmaceutical knowledge."[7] Claims for its efficacy beyond placebo are unsupported by the collective weight of scientific and clinical studies[8][9][10][11] and it is considered to be pseudoscientific.[12][13][14][15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Homeopathy&diff=next&oldid=188572923
I encourge you to read the references in the article. Thanks, Quack Guru 17:58, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Beware. Banned from the page for stonewalling. Anthon01 ( talk) 18:55, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I just realized I posted twice. sorry. Anthon01 ( talk) 19:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I took the position that you have taken on the Psci issue. Anthon01 ( talk) 21:10, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Thought you should know that every article related to homeopathy is under article probation now - please familiarize yourself with the terms here. I hope that you understand that this notice is a mere formality and hope that set a good example for some of our other editors. east.718 at 21:07, February 2, 2008
You are banned for 7 days from editing homeopathy and its talk page. You have been tendentiously pushing an agenda [13] [14] [15] and furthering an edit war, [16] in opposition to all evidence and Wikipedia policy. This is disruptive. Pseudoscience has a plain English meaning. Many reliable sources say that homeopathy is pseudoscience. [1] [2] [3] [4] Arguing otherwise is like arguing that the moon is made of cheese. This manner of disruption will no longer be tolerated. Jehochman Talk 22:02, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I have undone this ban. Your calmness during the aftermath convinced me that a ban was no longer needed. Jehochman Talk 23:29, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
(Answering here to avoid posting on homeopathy articles) I mean that the study says that homeopathy seems to have no effect beyond placebo. It also says "scientific implausibility of the basic concepts that underlie homeopathic thinking,", altought out of context, it surely refers to the law of similars, increased effect with decreased dose, etc, which go against stablished principles of modern science. So, while it doesn't specifically say "it contradicts scientific principles", it's also clear that it does say at all "it is in agreement with scientific principles" Ah, forget it, I see that it needs to be exactly the same wording down to the last word in the same order in order to get past the filters in place, not sure if this is good or bad --
Enric Naval (
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08:50, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Art, I wonder if you would mind checking this article Samuel Hahnemann because footnote #9, though the title is embedded in the html text, it does not appear in the listed footnotes, except as an op.cit. I can't seem to work out how to reformat it so the title appears in a citation a bit further up as well as the op.cit. Hope you follow that! Would you please mind checking it and doing what needs doing? many thanks Peter morrell 16:36, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, Art, no worries, Tim Vickers fixed it as I guessed you had gone off. It was a tangled mess of codes that blocked several refs from appearing in the main text even though the refs were embedded in the html tx of the article in draft form. thanks anyway Peter morrell 13:52, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Art,
Could you avoid inserting comments into the middle of other people comments like in talk:homeopathy. In moderate doses it's not too big an issue, but if it gets out of hand then it becomes next to impossible to tell who's saying what since the sections lose their signature. Take a look at talk:chiropractic and you'll see what I mean.
Best wishes, anyway Jefffire ( talk) 12:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Dear Art,
I note you are supporting deletion of my article, but you have at least asked for a second opinion and I thank you for this. I also note that , like myself , you are a plasma physicist who has worked on aneutronic fusion, as have I. I consider it will one day save the world from global warming. I am also from Oregon originally, ( Medford). Perhaps my theory is not noteable, I have not made a effort to make it into a headline, but I will soon, because i have decided it is time. What if i succeed?
So i ask you to reread the article and consider as a plasma physicist, who is familiar with the ExB drift, and with cosmology ( like most plasma physicists , since the known cosmos is 99% plasma, it gives us a license to be cosmlogists) , to look at the article, and ask yourself: are its physical premises in obvious error? Are its results for G, for the Hubble time, and the temperature of the CBR noteable?
I am not a "surfer dude" with a E (8) unified field theory, I am a working plasma physicist, who like many of our vocation in the US , being unable to do fusion, we have gone into space, where i work on plasma propulsion and other plasma technologies. I can build and run a langmuir probe, a coax plasmas into doing what i want. That makes me stay close to the practical. My theory is good physics, as for being noteable, that is simply a new project to me.
with every good wish John Brandenburg Ph D —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deepthought137 ( talk • contribs) 14:37, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Basically, when a discussion is closed as keep, that means that there is consensus that the article as it was on March 2007 was satisfactory enough for an independent article. That being said, since the AfD took place over a year ago, newfound developments could very well have made that AfD void (see Wikipedia:Consensus can change). If there is consensus to merge, that can be done at the talk page, and is the best option if there is just a keep v. merge debate. If there's a keep v. merge v. delete battle, AfD is generally a better option, but in this case you guys seem to be coming to a consensus rather nicely. To answer your questions in short, keep = to keep the content in some form, merges can be decided by consensus on the talk page. Hopefully I answered your questions fully. Wizardman 15:38, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Art. Further to the recent new-user edits at Expanding Earth theory, if you've got a moment you might like to check out a new article created by the same new-user, Savannah apes. To give the new-user some credit, at least their username is the same as their real name (which is more than can be said for me!). Anyway, I've tagged the article with a {{notability}} flag, but I suspect it really needs deleting. That said, a Google trawl reveals that a "Savannah ape hypothesis" does appear to exist, but not in association with the apparent author of this new article, "Andrew D. Mackay". Anyway, what do you reckon? Cheers, -- Plumbago ( talk) 17:16, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Do you have information about the flammability in the plasma (state of matter)?
Thanks,
-- 190.67.186.169 ( talk) 18:53, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
HELP! We have Cold Fusion proponents dramatically asserting ownership over cold fusion. I need all the help I can get. ScienceApologist ( talk) 16:03, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
In spite of what you think, I do know a thing or two, likely plenty to get myself in Big Trouble. If the word "hydrino" caused your eyeballs to roll up and make you stop reading, tough. You would have missed the part where I said I don't put much credence in the claims. And if you would care to offer a few concepts associated with the notion that somehow atomic nuclei separated by 100,000 diameters can have greater electric repulsion than electrons separated by 100 nuclear diameters, I'd be happy to hear it. In the meantime, here's a wild idea to think about:
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/BEC_20Fusion
V (
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05:47, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if you were related to User:Steve carlson?-- Stereotyper ( talk) 21:00, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Your comment about Bayesian priors strikes a cord with me. I have noticed how intuitive reasoning (in the immediate belief or recognition sense of the word) shows the workings of a probabilistic depedency model. All training data seems to have been subconsciously processed to form a maximum likliehood estimate. A good example is face recognition being affected by the place or environment where the face is encountered. No big surprise given that nueral networks are probabolistic dependancy models.
Taking perhaps a different direction, I have also been struck by how the filtration of incoming information based on past information causes people to become polarized, yet clustered, in their beliefs. In recent years, this became very noticeable in the divisions between political camps. Belief in seemingly unpolitical matters like whether global warming is real became predictable based on political affiliation.
I had an idea for developing a model that would cluster people into political camps without relying on aprior divisions like race, sex, income, etc. A naïve Bayes model with a hidden variable predictive of cluster was what I had in mind. I do not mean to be misleading, I never knew the math very well and have forgotten much of what I learned. The training data would use a bunch of candidate questions. Part of the model-building process would be to find which small group of questions best sorted people into clusters that were predictive of voting behavior and political views. Next step would be a nationwide study to get the population distribution of clusters (too expensive, idea fails here). In future polls you ask the cluster sorting questions along with whatever else you are interested in and use the cluster information to correct for sample bias. I was sure it would work better than demographics and would also be useful in building focus groups.
Getting back on track, I though it would be interesting to study how people decide what is true and whether there was something to be learned about distinguishing between functional and disfunctional belief forming habits or rooting our weak premises. Have you gone anywhere with any of this? Paul V. Keller ( talk) 20:42, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Please help to reformulate the text. Carn ( talk) 12:31, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey there, I noticed from your talk page that you seem to know something about physics. Might I interested you in joining WikiProject Physics? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:33, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello Dr. Carlson. I've read with interest your entries at Talk-Polywell.org as well as some of your contributions here at WP. I respect your approach of testing an idea or theory's strength by subjecting it to the most rigorous scrutiny. I also understand that you have limited time and must choose your topics of interest. I was hoping you were familiar with an article by Dr. David Goodstein, of CalTech titled, "Whatever Happened to Cold Fusion?" If not, I was hoping I could interest you enough to read it here.
With respect to Dr. Goodstein's article, a recent (April 19, 2009) 60 Minutes piece profiled the work of Energetics Technologies. The 60 Minutes piece is linked on the company's commercial site. Also on the company's site is a presentation demonstrating their technique that is mentioned in the 60 minutes piece.
If you have followed along this far, my question is whether you think Energetics' technique might be a realistic way to increase the "x" that Dr. Goodstein discusses in his article?
Krellkraver ( talk) 10:55, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Art. Any thoughts on Rydberg matter? Cheers. ABlake ( talk) 13:56, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Good day sir! I'm merely a layman in the field of high energy physics, but I find plasma to be a fascinating topic to research for the fun of it. I was hoping that you could disambiguate something for me since you appear to be the man in the know. Several times while reading various articles about linear shaped explosive charges, the author(s) refer to the 'jet', (which is a ductile metal, most commonly copper that is shaped and accelerated by the surrounding explosive to cut through hardened objects such as steel beams or concrete) as a plasma. My question is this; Is enough energy imparted by the explosive to the metal such that the electrons jump up an orbit and are able to 'boil off' and ionize the metal jet into a plasma state, or was the term used flippantly in the articles that I read? If you have the time to answer, that would be super. Since the question is of a trivial nature, it's not going to hurt my feelers any if you fail to reply.
Thanksamillion, Dreadp00l ( talk) 08:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Art!
While I'm still associated academically with TUM , I'm no longer working there for mu salary - I'm in Karlsruhe at the moment. How is life at the LRZ?
-- Stephan Schulz ( talk) 10:53, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Art, I re-read your statement and realised in my rush to reply, I didn´t take it all in. I am quite busy these days. Apologies. I have now added in bold, three points, to my original answer. These points hopefully more directly address the questions raised by you, even if I realise additional reflection would be needed to make them more concise. Odin 85th gen ( talk) 04:10, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Art. In this I suspect you made a typo: astrology/astronomy. Thrice you write "astronomy", where "astrology" is probably what you meant. It's an easy one to make. -- Brangifer ( talk) 13:51, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help on modern geocentrism. :-) Evercat 13:50, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the honest perspective. I cannot make you (or any one else) "believe" in geo-centrism, but it clearly is as feasible as heliocentrism, discounting the notion of natural simplicity (i.e., God would likely have to have willed it for it to turn out this way). Does understanding that fact make you wonder sometimes? Truth_Seeker.
I call the fusing of nuclei heavier than iron nucleosynthesis. I use nuclear fusion to describe the creation of a heavier nucleus from lighter nuclei in a process that releases energy. But I see that the article is not written from that point of view; which is why I didn't re-edit. Off topic, but you seemed to be very contentious and appeared to be trying to condescend; unnecessary. ProfessorToomin ( talk) 17:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
I saw that you were basically the only one to edit the Langmuir probe page. I was wondering if you had any knowledge in Langmuir himself. I am currently working on reworking his page (my grandmother was his secretary and i have some of his journals and notes in my possession). 01:33, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I am currently rewriting the article and i just wondered if you would like to help, (I am rewriting the article in word and either tonight or tomorrow night i will upload it to wikipedia), i was wondering if you would be willing to look through it for spelling or grammar errors after i upload to wikipedia thanks. I live in Gainesville Florida, but i was born in Munich Germany so its a small world eh, (my german is rather bad i can speak it but wirting it is a whole differnt story) bakuzjw (aka 578) 20:36, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I think Wikipedia could use a page on emmisive probes. I found the page on Langmuir probes very helpful. I don't know if you have the knowledge to start such an article, but perhaps you might know someone who could. Just an idea.
I just came upon the Langmuir Probe page yesterday. I would like to refer you to the overview article written by Larry Brace in "Measurement techniques in space plasmas: particles"
By Robert F. Pfaff, Joseph E. Borovsky
< http://books.google.com/books?id=3pBNNEykLIIC&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false> which speaks to spaceflight LP's that he was involved with from 1959 (IGY) through Pioneer Venus (1978-1992) and Dynamics Explorer 2 (ca. 1980). The paper includes an extensive bibliography. Unfortunately, Larry is no longer with us to answer followup questions.
I was flight electronics designer for the PV and DE-2 and would like to question the line at the end of the Single Probe section stating that the need for "sophisticated electronics..." is a driver to go to multiple probes. Larry used two probes at right angles on PV, but they were used as two independent single probes. The Instrument had several pre-programmed operating modes that could independently be applied to each of the probes. Either of the Krehbiel, et. al., articles in the bibliography will give details on the Instrument system design. Wpinkus ( talk) 01:32, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
A fair "compromise"; but I fear that it will probably be declared too wordy by the homeopathy apologists and watered down/removed. Jooler 20:09, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I do not appreciate your reversals of the Totally Disputed tag. I have detailed precisely what points are factually incorrect and misleading, and I think readers need to be made aware that your version of the truth is disputed. -- Leifern 15:16, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
Off the top of my head:
I realize you and Geni have decided your grasp on science exceeds that of anybody who disagrees with you, but I have caught a) Geni making so many wrong assertions about statistics, rhetorical fallacies, and clinical trials that he has lost all credibility, and b) being polemic about the topic, that it's clear that this article is worthless for anyone who is interested in learning about the topic (as opposed to being indoctrinated on one perspective). -- Leifern 15:50, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
The infobox removed had two versions - one added manually into the article, and the other, containing the same information and formatting, that could be added through use of a template. The template version was deleted, which means that manual versions of it are bad for comparable reasons (In this case, because of a consensus that it was not really an infobox at all). In this case, if you wanted to preserve the information, I'd suggest categories, or simply adding the relevent facts into the text of the article. Snowspinner 13:48, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
To see the infobox on Acupuncture and Homeopathy simply click on their repective history hyperlink. Then look for my name and click on the time and date stamp to the left of my name and you will see an old version of the respective articles complete with the very useful infobox that Snowspinner keeps on deleting. -- John Gohde 13:21, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
« With some exceptions, nuclei lighter than iron release energy when they fuse, while heavier nuclei absorb energy [...] ». What exceptions had you in mind? I can't think of any.
Urhixidur 19:19, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)
There exist certain metastable nuclei, at the very least, which fuse and also release a ton of alphas. I don't know any specific one, but that might be how to find one. Danielfong 08:59, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to gather information to update the fusor article (see Talk:Farnsworth-Hirsch_Fusor#updates), and found this article. Unless there's a large secret underground organization of PhD physicists named Art Carlson, I'm going to assume it was written by you. Do you have a link to a current version? I just get dead links everywhere else. Or perhaps you changed your mind and took it down? Regardless, I bet you could help expand on the article... - Omegatron 18:53, May 2, 2005 (UTC)
Can I have your vote on whether to move the page to Fusor? Talk:Farnsworth-Hirsch_Fusor#Rename_to_plain_old_.22Fusor.22_or_.22Fusor_tube.22.3F - Omegatron 23:41, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Art. Thanks for merging the Faraday disc and homopolar generator articles: you did a good job. I found the disc to be a fascinating subject. When I started the article I thought I was writing about a simple dynamo, but then I realised that I had to learn about the Lorentz force, and to understand that I had to read about special relativity. I'm hoping that providing an easy-to-read explanation in Wikipedia will help combat the unnecessary mysticism that surrounds this device. Regards, -- Heron 29 June 2005 09:24 (UTC)
Hi again, Art. User:Occultations has just queried your addition of the "Configuration without a return path" section to the Faraday Paradox article, and I have to say I agree with him, although I'm an engineer and not a physicist. Could you give a reference to back up your information, please? (And it would be nice to know whether anybody has verified it experimentally.) You seem to be saying that either (1) the field is not uniform, so its rotation can have an effect on the disc, or (2) somehow the disc knows that the source of the field is rotating, even though the field itself is uniform. Which of these statements is true, or are they both wrong? -- Heron 22:45, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
See: Talk:Inertial electrostatic confinement Maury 5 July 2005 21:43 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting out aether. You might perhaps be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Pseudoscience and Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Physics. William M. Connolley 08:32:13, 2005-07-13 (UTC).
Could you ask User:Reddi to respond on the Talk:Plasma cosmology page? He seems to have decided I'm not worth discussing.
If this fails, would you support an RfC against User:Reddi? He responded on his talk page that he will not respond to my comments because he considers me a troll.
Thanks, -- Joshuaschroeder 20:56, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Now he's at it on the Quasi-steady state cosmology page. I'm going to start the RfC.
-- Joshuaschroeder 21:42, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I've started the RfC here: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Reddi. Joshuaschroeder 22:17, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I have added a request for comment on Eric Lerner's editing, at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Elerner. Please take a look at it and endorse if you feel it is appropriate. – Joke137 00:23, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Art, If you would, please take a moment to comment on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Pseudoscience/Proposed_decision, since you have experience discussing aneutronic fusion with Lerner. Thanks. ABlake 21:01, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Arbitrartion request for Reddi's refusal to engage me. I don't know what else to do at this point: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration.
-- Joshuaschroeder 18:16, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Your comment on the redshift page just disappeared, but here are the references.
-- Iantresman 21:04, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Your input to an RfC at Talk:Depleted uranium#Request for Comments would be appreciated. DV8 2XL 07:51, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
User:Iantresman is using you as a supporter of his RfC that he thinks was inappropriately closed. Can you comment on the Talk:Redshift page please? Thanks, -- ScienceApologist 15:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I have suggested a small panel of users competent in science to evaluate editors of scientific articles. Please comment at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Reddi_2/Workshop#Troika. Fred Bauder 20:26, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Art, sorry for bothering you, but I wonder if you could help with a problem. The foxes appear to be guarding the henhouse in the cold fusion article. Could you have a look at the talk page, and also Wikipedia:Featured article removal candidates/Cold fusion? Much obliged. – Joke 19:26, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
There's currently a controversy at Cold fusion that I would appreciate it if you could look at. The article is about to fail a Featrued Article Removal Candidate vote. There are at least 3 fairly different versions in play: one based on the original Featured Article dating back to 2004-08-20 and tossing out all edits between now and then [3] ("FA version"), one which was the current version up until that [4] ("current version"), and a proposed new draft written originally by Edmund Storms (a retired Los Alamos scientist) and edited by me [5] ("Storms version"). At the moment the article is being rather agressively edited by a few people who support the version from a year ago, and if this stands, a lot of good material will be lost. Frankly, I can't entirely support any of the versions; the article just needs more work and more different perspectives. Hence this invitation. I hope you can help.
I'm posting this to you because I've seen you on various physics-related pages, and/or because you've worked on the Cold fusion page before. Thank you for your time.
ObsidianOrder 06:24, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Be assured the pdf exits on the web on a Royal Society server. I downloaded it round about 2000 GMT. It is itself a review, so summarising a conclusion in one sentence would be 'Singer did review'!.If it's characterisable as POV, then we are all doomed! Please track down and read so we can reach an agreed position. Bob aka Linuxlad 21:20, 14 January 2006 (UTC) Here's the link (it was still on an open page!)
I found it quite high up Google earlier- but it seems to not be in pole position now (odd, but not unknown). Tend to agree it probably shouldn't be in Intro. But its general style seemed appropriate to what finally goes there. Bob aka Linuxlad
Hi I gave a little more precision on the Tired light Talk page. Is his mechanism clear now? I would be interested to discuss a little more about it if you like, although it won't be fast as I don't have much time. Harald88 08:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Art, are you not a big name in the world of drowsing? I think I remember seeing your name in some drowsing literature I picked up from the library. I don't mean to accuse you of being POV. I just thought it would be cool to be arguing with someone of your status. JohnJohn 02:52, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I have a friend who works for the LaGrange water department. One day I saw him working by the road and stopped to talk. I was astonished to see him walking around with a dowsing rod. What are you doing? I asked him. "Looking for the pipe" he replied matter of factly. "But don't you have electronics to do that?" "Sure, but this works just as good. Finds plastic too." he said. That's when my friends helper chimed in "I have a friend who doesn't believe it." Tommysun 19:27, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
So, I have dutifully taken the mediation of plasma cosmology. Before we start, I would like to know what form of mediation you would like to take? You guys basically have three options: the first (and most popular) is to just do it on the wiki, probably at Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Plasma cosmology. The second is to do it by email (I wouldn't recommend it as there are quite a few users listed). And the third is to do it be IRC. Please respond at Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Plasma cosmology where you would like to do it. Thanks. Sasquatch t| c 05:18, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but I was impressed with your command of plasma physics on the plasma talk page, and I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. In a one atmosphere uniform glow Discharge plasma (OAUGDP) what is the voltage drop for a large current, say 1000 amps, running across it? Is there an equation that one could use to compute this for different voltages? Thanks a lot for your patience. cc 24.137.78.34 00:00, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Art. First, I'd like to say that I really respect what you've done so far. It's very impressive (especially your help in the fusion FAQ and the glossary), and your pages have lead me onto an entirely different path of inquiry.
I have a question and concern regarding your repeated citation of Rider's thesis and paper, however. Unfortunately, I can't access the thesis (the links that I could find were all down), nor could I read your review of the paper. Perhaps you still have some copies. In any case, certain statements seemed spurious, and they appeared to be highlighted in the following poster at the APS meeting. I haven't looked at Rider's calculation directly, but the poster notices that Rider assumes that the velocity space is always isotropic, and then proves that the redistribution power required for at least one example is smaller than the ideal fusion power. I see that you cite many of Rider's original paper's without taking this vulnerablity into account. Could you look into this? Is the jury still out on this issue? Articles referencing fundamental limitations and claiming 'impossibility' should really at -least- mention that there is some controversy. From my, admittedly green, standpoint, it looks like there really is a problem with some of the impossibility claims. We should look into this quickly, and revert if necessary. Kindly, Danielfong 09:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I may (from a purely theoretical viewpoint) agree that my addition [7] did not add "content", in exactly the same sense that any mathematical theorem does not add content, although it may be surprising or revealing. But what makes you call it POV? I'm about as puzzled by your comment as you would presumably have been, had someone reverted your debunking of the hypothesis that ball lightning is a highly ionized plasma contained by magnetic fields with the comment "POV addition that doesn't add content". Lambiam Talk 18:02, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Geocentrism has been fully disproven by modern science. Science has now shown that the Sun is at the center of the solar system, not the Earth. Further, the Sun is not the center of the universe; it is merely the center of one local solar system, and itself orbits around the center of our galaxy. Space probes which have visited the other planets in our solar system have followed paths which were calculated using Heliocentrism; if the geocentric model were true, then none of these spaceships could ever have arrived at their target planets or moons.
I've started a tentative article on Redshift quantization -- Iantresman 15:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
I've started an article on the " Pinch (plasma physics)" over which you may wish to cast your more experienced eye. I've not merged with Z-pinch, since the latter seems more about the Z-pinch machine, rather than the process. -- Iantresman 16:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Art, you seem to be (one of) the resident experts on fusion, can I ask your opinion of Eric Lerner's attempts to get proton-boron fusion to produce net energy? From what I have read on your talk page, it seems that you agree with Tod Rider's thesis that dismisses p-11B as a viable fuel mix for a future fusion power reactor. Would I be correct in assuming that in your opinion Lerner has not addressed Rider's criticisms either in whole or in part? -- User:Jaganath 13:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Art for replying so quickly and taking the time to craft a comprehensible and detailed reply. Seems like p-11B fusion still faces huge, if not insurmountable problems before it can become a future energy source; in light of this, can I ask if you think ITER, and (spherical) tokamaks in general are the right direction to be going in if we are to harness fusion to produce useful power within your or my lifetimes? -- User: Jaganath 18:42, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
You placed a Copyright violation tag on this article. All of the info is from a .mil site. This means it is Public Domain info from the US government. Might be best to remove the tag. Cheers-- Looper5920 09:41, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Just to let you know that I've requested Peer Review for the Plasma physics artciles, discussion should appear on the page at Wikipedia:Peer review/Plasma (physics)/archive1 -- Iantresman 11:06, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
It is clear that this user won't give up. [8] I suggest that from now on we just ignore his ramblings on the talk page. -- Lambiam Talk 22:18, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Art, are you familliar with the "fulcher band"? Being a plasma physicist I thought you'd probably have at least some experience with not so hot H2 plasmas and might be able to help me here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Deuterium arc lamp/archive1. Any input is appreciated! thanks. -- Deglr6328 07:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
User:Iantresman has started a request for arbitration you may wish to comment on WP:RfArb#Pseudoscience__vs_Pseudoskepticism. -- ScienceApologist 12:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Pseudoscience/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher131 11:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Art. In your recent diff [9] , "doesn't jive with" should be "doesn't jibe with". I didn't fix it directly because I didn't want to become part of the case. Cardamon 20:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Nice rewrite of the intro! Much better now. Maury 22:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Would you mind giving Riggatron and Migma a quick once-over? I noticed both were being referred to in various articles but had no articles of their own. Hopefully I've made a start, at least. I did notice an older thread between you and Gordon on whether or not the non-equilibrium issue applies to the Migma approach. Gordon seemed to be suggesting it didn't really apply. What was the outcome here? Maury 15:17, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
...For your hard work on Aneutronic fusion. From the little I've read, I can't really tell if you or Elerner is generally right, but it seems that you are, or he does a really (and un-editor-worthy) lousy job supporting or being careful in his edits, which greatly enhances your credibility in my book. If its any consolation, it seems your edit war has resulted in a better-sourced article. And a very good one, even if it's far from perfection. -- Elvey 09:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Please respond on the Afshar Experiment Talk Page as to whether you would accept impartial mediation for that article. Thank you! Sdirrim 18:10, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed your edits on Quasineutrality.
I'm no scientist, nor do I exactly know the details of what IP 68 added. However a quick Google search did show that this concept might deserve its own page. Even if a stub, we should have a few lines and a seperate section for external links or references which the user can lookup for further details.
Secondly, if you are in a position to improve on the article content, please do so. Calling a good faith edit "worse than useless" isn't right. Allow me to remind you that the majority of WP's content is written by anon IPs, their inaccuracies and irrelevant material can be improved upon, but shouldn't be removed outright.
By your contributions, I see you are an expert in this field, please don't take this as criticism, it isn't. Looking forward to working on an article with you in future :) Cheers! - xC - | ☎ 13:50, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Maybe you should seek an IP ban from the non english speaking folks from editing this article. Or maybe you can ask them to seek someone they know who speaks better english or refer them to the japanese wikipedia. I can see that their edits are irritating in that they are hard to understand because of grammar problems as well as the fact that they are discussing fairly obscure technical details. Mathchem271828 04:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Dear Art, your criterion for notability and Wiki-entries seemed to me very dubious, however I respect your view on the problem. Since Wikipedia is free-encyclopedia and its biographic database is expanding, I have myself been editing several entries on famous bulgarian scientists, yet I have created this entry on Tabish Qureshi, who is known for his analysis of Popper's experiment, and the so-called entangled biphoton wavefunction. Well, this is all based on my old readings done several years ago [when I was not Wikipedian], when I have not even met prof. Qureshi personally. The fact that I have met him in Wikipedia changes nothing, I have opened the entry solely on scientific grounds. You can check the bibliographic list of his publications in the main article. Kind Regards, Danko Georgiev MD 12:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
So let us calculate the evolution of the quantum state in Unruh's setup directly [look my figure 2]:
p.s. contrary to Unruh, I have said that putting the obstacle or NOT does not matter. It is the presence of destructive interference at path 5 itself that "erases" the which way. Look at the expression . You can drop the zero term [comment: multiplied by zero vector |5> cannot be regained without dividing to zero! - impossible math operation]. Indeed the existent negative interference mathematically is formulated like that: . The measurement of the negative interference by obstacle physically mathematically is written like that . So my conclusion is that it is IMPOSSIBLE to have difference in the which way claim for interference + obstacle vs. interference + no obstacle. The mathematical expression is always the SAME . I am excited because it seems Unruh will publish his original 1 page letter-to-editor in PP (full of errors), and as his letter explicitly claims the inconsistency decribed in my sec. 3.3, I will have the beautiful opportunity to publicly solve the Georgiev-Unruh issue in the pages of reputable peer-review journal. Danko Georgiev MD 09:08, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm very busy right now, you may want to post this to WP:ANI where an admin who has time can take of it. JoshuaZ 14:15, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear Art, please see this entry Unruh's interferometer, if you are interetsed in clarification the problem that ocurred with interpreting Unruh's claims. Regards, Danko Georgiev MD 06:56, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your contributions on fusion articles. It's great to have you here to sort things out that the rest of us don't understand.
Is there a reason you haven't contributed to Polywell? — Omegatron 15:23, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
It seems you have pounced ;). I'm suspicious of your use of the words "might" and "verifiable content" together here. I'm not convinced that running the current through the edges of the polyhedron would be the best bet; won't the magnetic field curve at the vertices leaving them unshielded, and a source of electron losses? I can't find anything in the Google transcript. I subconsciously corrected Bussard's truncated cube and truncated dodecahedron into cuboctahedron and icosidodecahedron, respectively, when I tried to work out all the shapes. I suppose if he says "truncated cube" when he means "cuboctahedron with solenoids on the square faces," then when he says "truncated dodecahedron" he means "icosidodecahedron with solenoids on the pentagonal faces." When does filling in the gaps turn into original research? Let's discuss. Eassin 16:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Mea culpa; I should have read instead of using the search function. Bussard does skirt the fact that where the round coils touch the field goes to zero: his models show a progressive decrease in amount of metal sitting in the field lines. I think it has something to do with the fact that quadrupole magnets can only focus in one direction and you should design your vertex based on that. I guess my question is: why do you think the NPG polyhedral grid might be the best way to go, and why didn't Bussard stick with it?
I don't believe for a minute that Bussard is going to save the world; I'm just curious about some basic E&M if you have the time for original research, verging on speculation and outright mind-reading. If not, I've been meaning to read Jackson for many years now anyway. Thanks. Eassin 05:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
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I have finished my draft of the Homeopathy article. The draft is a rough approximation of what it should be like. It obviously has some flaws in it's format and wording right now but they will be kinked out within the next couple of days. Right now what I want is for you, if you're interested in helping to improve the article, to come to the articles talk page. There we will all discuss the article and how it could be improved before we replace the current homeopathy article with it. In order for this to work we need to follow a few rules. The first rule, the most important rule, is that no one but me can edit the rough draft. Do not edit the rough draft. This precaution is used to prevent edit warring and loss or addition of information that might not be up to consensus. Don't worry, It's just a draft and you'll have all the time you want to make changes after we've replaced it with the current article. The second rule is that all proposed changes in the rough draft must be made on the talk page of the rough draft and must be clear and concise. At that point anyone involved will discuss the proposed changes and if agreed by consensus they will be implemented. We will do that until there is no disputes or disagreements. After all disputes are hammered out, we will replace the homeopathy article with the rough draft. At that point there shouldn't be anyone needing to make huge edits, and if you do see an edit that you want to make, be sure to add a note on the talk page PRIOR to making the edit so that consensus can be reached and then you should make the edit. If you have any questions you can leave me a message on my talk page. Here is the link to the rough draft Link to rough draft. Wikidudeman (talk) 13:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
The Homeopathy draft seems about ready to go live. I'll wait a few more days and see if any other people make proposed changes though, Tell me what you think of it currently and if you see a problem with it then please propose some changes on the talk page for me to make to it. I want to make sure everyone agrees on the article before replacing it so that edit wars don't instantly begin. Thanks. Wikidudeman (talk) 17:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
FYI. PS. Is your Wiki email address up-to-date? -- 82.80.248.177 10:55, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Can you take another look at the Homeopathy draft? I think it's looking very good and I would appreciate some more input. It has drastically improved since its creation and any input would be great. Thanks. Wikidudeman (talk) 23:08, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey Art, I plan to implement the homeopathy rough draft( link) by September 1st, 5 days from now. Unless of course more proposals are made to change it, in which case I will postpone the implementation until it is ready and agreed upon. Some things concerning the rough draft are still in discussions, which can easily continue once it goes live. An example is the inclusion of mentions of Jacques Benveniste. Other things can easily be fixed after a week or so of copy editors from the general public going over it and removing redundancy and rewording sentences to be more brief and precise, which will cut down size of the article including the lead without removing relevant info. So If by September 1st I receive no more suggestions on improving the rough draft then I will replace the Homeopathy article with it. If you see problems with the draft, please make suggestions on improving it. Even if the suggestions might have already been made, just make a new post with the suggestions so that we can discuss them. Here is the link to the rough draft again: Link to rough draft. Thanks. Wikidudeman (talk) 13:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
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I'm awarding you this barnstar for your help in rewriting the homeopathy article. It is now implemented and hopefully will improve even further in the near future. Great job! Wikidudeman (talk) 14:50, 1 September 2007 (UTC) |
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Thanks, Art, for your recent civil and helpful editing of the Homeopathy article. I for one felt it was a pleasure to work with you. Thanks again. Peter morrell 08:46, 5 September 2007 (UTC) |
Here's the reference to that, It's cited a sentence down from the initial claim. [10]. Wikidudeman (talk) 13:31, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Ernst, E. Homeopathy revisited. Arch Intern Med 1996; 156: 2162 2164.
Please refrain from insulting me. If you would check here you will see a message from you calling me clueless. I don't appreciate this kind of namecalling, please stop doing it. Thanks. SteakNotShake 20:25, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
You are in danger of violating the
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Flood geology. Please cease further reverts or you may be
blocked from editing. If you want to make big changes, make your case on the talk page.--
Filll
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Hi. With permission from an arbitrator, Iantresman has filed an appeal to the Arbitration Committee, seeking review of the ban against him imposed after discussion at the Community Sanctions Noticeboard, and listed you as a potentially interested party. Your comments would be welcome at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#iantresman indefinite ban appeal. Newyorkbrad 18:40, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
To all involved: please see "My two cents" edit of homeopathy intro here
Friarslantern 22:51, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
The proposal to split the Homeopathy article into separate articles is not a good idea. Prior to the rewrite of the article, It was split into 5 or 6 separate articles. One on the "history" of homeopathy. A few on each tenet of homeopathic philosophy. One on criticism of homeopathy. Etc. This mass of articles was impossible to navigate through and they all generally contained redundant info except for the small amount of info differentiating them per the name of the article. I merged them all into that one article and cut down all of the redundant material. I would suggest that the best way to solve this is not to split the article into other articles but to try to best summarize the scientific studies as a whole. Using only the most reputable and reliable sources or meta-analysis and simply summarizing them in a NPOV manner. Wikidudeman (talk) 16:37, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
You sorted the production grids list on the Grid Computing page (something I approve of in general) but it's not at all clear to me what the criteria for the ordering you used were. Definitely not alphabetic! If there's some other objective criterion involved, please state what it is on that page or change it back to alphabetic. (Alphabetic sucks, but it's the best inherent order we've got without introducing additional information so that we can objectively measure "importance"). Right now, you've made it marginally harder for people to find information about the production grids without any conspicuous counterbalancing benefit, which is hardly improving anything. Donal Fellows 14:51, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Regarding your edit: [12]
Critical density is a "[[Category:Redirects with possibilities|redirect with possibilities]]". It doesn't have its own article now, but it could have one -- maybe I'll even write one, if I can get around to it. Until then it seems to make sense to have links go right to it. As the category page says, "Do not replace these redirected links with a link directly to the target page."
Maybe I'm wrong and no one will ever write an article on it (which would surprise me, since a lot of articles mention it) -- but even then the link still goes to the right place. Of course it will be a redirect until an article is made, but I don't think it's that bad.
I actually often remove redirects myself, but I don't think this is one to remove. Still, since you reverted me, I'll WP:0RR and leave it.
CRGreathouse ( t | c) 16:29, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Arsenicum album, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arsenicum album. Thank you. TableManners C· U· T 03:15, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I agree with your intro in the Carpe Diem section. Anthon01 ( talk) 14:47, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting on the homeopathy page. I think we just need to nip these things in the bud. Some editors don't know when to stop. David D. (Talk) 18:50, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I've just got notice that I've been banned for stonewalling. We have been largely agreeing on the current issues. Any thoughts. Anthon01 ( talk) 17:48, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
The article states: The ideas of homeopathy are scientifically implausible[5][6] and its "theory is diametrically opposed to modern pharmaceutical knowledge."[7] Claims for its efficacy beyond placebo are unsupported by the collective weight of scientific and clinical studies[8][9][10][11] and it is considered to be pseudoscientific.[12][13][14][15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Homeopathy&diff=next&oldid=188572923
I encourge you to read the references in the article. Thanks, Quack Guru 17:58, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Beware. Banned from the page for stonewalling. Anthon01 ( talk) 18:55, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I just realized I posted twice. sorry. Anthon01 ( talk) 19:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I took the position that you have taken on the Psci issue. Anthon01 ( talk) 21:10, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Thought you should know that every article related to homeopathy is under article probation now - please familiarize yourself with the terms here. I hope that you understand that this notice is a mere formality and hope that set a good example for some of our other editors. east.718 at 21:07, February 2, 2008
You are banned for 7 days from editing homeopathy and its talk page. You have been tendentiously pushing an agenda [13] [14] [15] and furthering an edit war, [16] in opposition to all evidence and Wikipedia policy. This is disruptive. Pseudoscience has a plain English meaning. Many reliable sources say that homeopathy is pseudoscience. [1] [2] [3] [4] Arguing otherwise is like arguing that the moon is made of cheese. This manner of disruption will no longer be tolerated. Jehochman Talk 22:02, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
I have undone this ban. Your calmness during the aftermath convinced me that a ban was no longer needed. Jehochman Talk 23:29, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
(Answering here to avoid posting on homeopathy articles) I mean that the study says that homeopathy seems to have no effect beyond placebo. It also says "scientific implausibility of the basic concepts that underlie homeopathic thinking,", altought out of context, it surely refers to the law of similars, increased effect with decreased dose, etc, which go against stablished principles of modern science. So, while it doesn't specifically say "it contradicts scientific principles", it's also clear that it does say at all "it is in agreement with scientific principles" Ah, forget it, I see that it needs to be exactly the same wording down to the last word in the same order in order to get past the filters in place, not sure if this is good or bad --
Enric Naval (
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08:50, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Art, I wonder if you would mind checking this article Samuel Hahnemann because footnote #9, though the title is embedded in the html text, it does not appear in the listed footnotes, except as an op.cit. I can't seem to work out how to reformat it so the title appears in a citation a bit further up as well as the op.cit. Hope you follow that! Would you please mind checking it and doing what needs doing? many thanks Peter morrell 16:36, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, Art, no worries, Tim Vickers fixed it as I guessed you had gone off. It was a tangled mess of codes that blocked several refs from appearing in the main text even though the refs were embedded in the html tx of the article in draft form. thanks anyway Peter morrell 13:52, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi Art,
Could you avoid inserting comments into the middle of other people comments like in talk:homeopathy. In moderate doses it's not too big an issue, but if it gets out of hand then it becomes next to impossible to tell who's saying what since the sections lose their signature. Take a look at talk:chiropractic and you'll see what I mean.
Best wishes, anyway Jefffire ( talk) 12:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Dear Art,
I note you are supporting deletion of my article, but you have at least asked for a second opinion and I thank you for this. I also note that , like myself , you are a plasma physicist who has worked on aneutronic fusion, as have I. I consider it will one day save the world from global warming. I am also from Oregon originally, ( Medford). Perhaps my theory is not noteable, I have not made a effort to make it into a headline, but I will soon, because i have decided it is time. What if i succeed?
So i ask you to reread the article and consider as a plasma physicist, who is familiar with the ExB drift, and with cosmology ( like most plasma physicists , since the known cosmos is 99% plasma, it gives us a license to be cosmlogists) , to look at the article, and ask yourself: are its physical premises in obvious error? Are its results for G, for the Hubble time, and the temperature of the CBR noteable?
I am not a "surfer dude" with a E (8) unified field theory, I am a working plasma physicist, who like many of our vocation in the US , being unable to do fusion, we have gone into space, where i work on plasma propulsion and other plasma technologies. I can build and run a langmuir probe, a coax plasmas into doing what i want. That makes me stay close to the practical. My theory is good physics, as for being noteable, that is simply a new project to me.
with every good wish John Brandenburg Ph D —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deepthought137 ( talk • contribs) 14:37, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Basically, when a discussion is closed as keep, that means that there is consensus that the article as it was on March 2007 was satisfactory enough for an independent article. That being said, since the AfD took place over a year ago, newfound developments could very well have made that AfD void (see Wikipedia:Consensus can change). If there is consensus to merge, that can be done at the talk page, and is the best option if there is just a keep v. merge debate. If there's a keep v. merge v. delete battle, AfD is generally a better option, but in this case you guys seem to be coming to a consensus rather nicely. To answer your questions in short, keep = to keep the content in some form, merges can be decided by consensus on the talk page. Hopefully I answered your questions fully. Wizardman 15:38, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Art. Further to the recent new-user edits at Expanding Earth theory, if you've got a moment you might like to check out a new article created by the same new-user, Savannah apes. To give the new-user some credit, at least their username is the same as their real name (which is more than can be said for me!). Anyway, I've tagged the article with a {{notability}} flag, but I suspect it really needs deleting. That said, a Google trawl reveals that a "Savannah ape hypothesis" does appear to exist, but not in association with the apparent author of this new article, "Andrew D. Mackay". Anyway, what do you reckon? Cheers, -- Plumbago ( talk) 17:16, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Do you have information about the flammability in the plasma (state of matter)?
Thanks,
-- 190.67.186.169 ( talk) 18:53, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
HELP! We have Cold Fusion proponents dramatically asserting ownership over cold fusion. I need all the help I can get. ScienceApologist ( talk) 16:03, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
In spite of what you think, I do know a thing or two, likely plenty to get myself in Big Trouble. If the word "hydrino" caused your eyeballs to roll up and make you stop reading, tough. You would have missed the part where I said I don't put much credence in the claims. And if you would care to offer a few concepts associated with the notion that somehow atomic nuclei separated by 100,000 diameters can have greater electric repulsion than electrons separated by 100 nuclear diameters, I'd be happy to hear it. In the meantime, here's a wild idea to think about:
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/BEC_20Fusion
V (
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05:47, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if you were related to User:Steve carlson?-- Stereotyper ( talk) 21:00, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Your comment about Bayesian priors strikes a cord with me. I have noticed how intuitive reasoning (in the immediate belief or recognition sense of the word) shows the workings of a probabilistic depedency model. All training data seems to have been subconsciously processed to form a maximum likliehood estimate. A good example is face recognition being affected by the place or environment where the face is encountered. No big surprise given that nueral networks are probabolistic dependancy models.
Taking perhaps a different direction, I have also been struck by how the filtration of incoming information based on past information causes people to become polarized, yet clustered, in their beliefs. In recent years, this became very noticeable in the divisions between political camps. Belief in seemingly unpolitical matters like whether global warming is real became predictable based on political affiliation.
I had an idea for developing a model that would cluster people into political camps without relying on aprior divisions like race, sex, income, etc. A naïve Bayes model with a hidden variable predictive of cluster was what I had in mind. I do not mean to be misleading, I never knew the math very well and have forgotten much of what I learned. The training data would use a bunch of candidate questions. Part of the model-building process would be to find which small group of questions best sorted people into clusters that were predictive of voting behavior and political views. Next step would be a nationwide study to get the population distribution of clusters (too expensive, idea fails here). In future polls you ask the cluster sorting questions along with whatever else you are interested in and use the cluster information to correct for sample bias. I was sure it would work better than demographics and would also be useful in building focus groups.
Getting back on track, I though it would be interesting to study how people decide what is true and whether there was something to be learned about distinguishing between functional and disfunctional belief forming habits or rooting our weak premises. Have you gone anywhere with any of this? Paul V. Keller ( talk) 20:42, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Please help to reformulate the text. Carn ( talk) 12:31, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey there, I noticed from your talk page that you seem to know something about physics. Might I interested you in joining WikiProject Physics? Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:33, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
Hello Dr. Carlson. I've read with interest your entries at Talk-Polywell.org as well as some of your contributions here at WP. I respect your approach of testing an idea or theory's strength by subjecting it to the most rigorous scrutiny. I also understand that you have limited time and must choose your topics of interest. I was hoping you were familiar with an article by Dr. David Goodstein, of CalTech titled, "Whatever Happened to Cold Fusion?" If not, I was hoping I could interest you enough to read it here.
With respect to Dr. Goodstein's article, a recent (April 19, 2009) 60 Minutes piece profiled the work of Energetics Technologies. The 60 Minutes piece is linked on the company's commercial site. Also on the company's site is a presentation demonstrating their technique that is mentioned in the 60 minutes piece.
If you have followed along this far, my question is whether you think Energetics' technique might be a realistic way to increase the "x" that Dr. Goodstein discusses in his article?
Krellkraver ( talk) 10:55, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi Art. Any thoughts on Rydberg matter? Cheers. ABlake ( talk) 13:56, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Good day sir! I'm merely a layman in the field of high energy physics, but I find plasma to be a fascinating topic to research for the fun of it. I was hoping that you could disambiguate something for me since you appear to be the man in the know. Several times while reading various articles about linear shaped explosive charges, the author(s) refer to the 'jet', (which is a ductile metal, most commonly copper that is shaped and accelerated by the surrounding explosive to cut through hardened objects such as steel beams or concrete) as a plasma. My question is this; Is enough energy imparted by the explosive to the metal such that the electrons jump up an orbit and are able to 'boil off' and ionize the metal jet into a plasma state, or was the term used flippantly in the articles that I read? If you have the time to answer, that would be super. Since the question is of a trivial nature, it's not going to hurt my feelers any if you fail to reply.
Thanksamillion, Dreadp00l ( talk) 08:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi Art!
While I'm still associated academically with TUM , I'm no longer working there for mu salary - I'm in Karlsruhe at the moment. How is life at the LRZ?
-- Stephan Schulz ( talk) 10:53, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi Art, I re-read your statement and realised in my rush to reply, I didn´t take it all in. I am quite busy these days. Apologies. I have now added in bold, three points, to my original answer. These points hopefully more directly address the questions raised by you, even if I realise additional reflection would be needed to make them more concise. Odin 85th gen ( talk) 04:10, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi Art. In this I suspect you made a typo: astrology/astronomy. Thrice you write "astronomy", where "astrology" is probably what you meant. It's an easy one to make. -- Brangifer ( talk) 13:51, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
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