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Are you interested in forming a WikiProject ando/or WikiPortal cosmology? See also [1], [2]. -- Pjacobi 18:15, 2005 Mar 5 (UTC)
I'm utterly baffled as to why this article hasn't been VfD'ed as original research. Where are you hoping to go with it? Gazpacho 03:30, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
Replied to your post on my talk page. I don't know what you mean when you say "the statements are inconsistent". I read the article, I read the VfD discussion. I'm sorry my statements are puzzling. I tried to state the obvious as honestly and simply as I could. linas 23:20, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi Christopher. I'm just following up on your invitation on VfD to ask about references to criticisms of Harmonics Theory. Your rewritten sandbox article contains only 3 references. The "Remarks on the KARMEN anomaly" paper is really only tangentially related as it doesn't mention harmonics theory at all. It's important to Tomes, but I don't think anyone can reproduce his work that claims to predict a particle that isn't yet confirmed. The other two references are for HT advocacy. There are no references to HT criticism at all. What are your specific references for these two claims in your HT rewrite:
Thanks. Quale 15:39, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to say "thanks" for all the effort you've put into the thankless (and apparently endless) effort to salvage something presentable from the outpourings of Ray Tomes' brain. As time goes by, however, it seems that Tomes' behavior is becoming increasingly non-collegial (e.g., broadcast insults, sock-puppet voting) such that I'm getting to the point where I'd rather see the thing get VfD'd for good, rather than have Tomes et al. be able to sneak their stuff back in via misdirection (..."but sandbox2 is clearly better than the current article!") or simply wearing down all opposition. -- Dcfleck 00:11, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)
Hi
well I've made a start on swiss roll (metamaterial). I must have created the link but not created the page (so it naturally wasn't on my watchlist). Thinking about it, this is a likely loophole for all sorts of vandalism and unwiki type behaviour (Oh, and I'm definitely not an expert...I probably made the edits you picked up on when I was wikifying a Nature paper that caught my eye one Thursday lunchtime!)
very best wishes and keep up the good pseudoscience NPOVing
Robinh 21:20, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
All the links I removed where dead. User:Oleg Alexandrov has a bot that scanned for them and I do the manual confirmation. The dead link list is at User:Mathbot/Bad_links and a discussion I had with Oleg at User talk:Oleg Alexandrov#Dead links. As you see the list is quite large so I'm trying to save some time by not adding any comments.
(Anti-grav isn't in the bots domain ( Category:Mathematics) but I stumbled on the article when checking a possible crank page, both had a dead link to this domain.)
-- R.Koot 16:44, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jpg/dabble/ , does appear to be broken).
You're probably right about saving my breath with people like that (whatever his number was). It's just annoying when ignorant people aren't willing to listen to other people's advice. Anyway, back to more editting ... --- Mpatel 07:12, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Please could you have a quick look at http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/time.pdf I am, if anything, a philosopher and Penrose is about the limit (and beyond) my understanding. But I am concerned with well-anchored cross-disciplinary work. I hope this is not too far from your interests/knowledge. If so - could you 'refer on'? Also, and secondarily, there seems a Wikipedia convention of categorising problematic, challenging and difficult material as ' psuedoscience'which seems to be POV and I am beginning to wonder whether there needs much greater definition about this. Any thoughts? Thanks for any help. I am new to WIKI - is there a convention as to whether you reply on your page or on mine? Jeffrey Newman 08:42, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your response - and to User:Pjacobi also. Given what you have written, I will take this no further at present. The issues on mainstream science, proto and pseudo do concern me but I shall not rush! Jeffrey Newman 17:28, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
I accidentally ended up this page and was more than amazed by the very peculiar comments about my work made by Christopher Thomas.
a) No mechanism of consciousness is proposed. The very notion is nonsensical in the conceptual framework considered. The problem of consciousness is much much more deeper than inventing some mechanism. A deep generalization of quantum measurement theory as well as quantum theory itself together with a new ontology is needed before one can have even definition of consciousness. The theory relies on a unification of fundamental forces leading to a rich spectrum of predictions besides explaining the known basic facts. Mechanisms are proposed for various biological and brain functions such as long term memory: these mechanisms are inspired by the new view about time, space-time, and quantum. It seems that the attribute "wild" projects to the external world the deep ignorance of the person who wrote the comments above.
b) It is amusing to find that there still exist people who think seriously that classical mechanics might be enough to explain consciousness and regard as unscientific approaches based on the physics born in nineteenth century. Where do all these people come from?
c) There exists no chapter "Tesla was a master of space-time" which suggests that the person who wrote the comments has never visited my homepage. I hope that this person does not act as administrator.
d) The article does NOT state that psychokinesis and remote viewing are empirical facts but leaves their ontological status open. Only TGD based mechanisms giving rise to this kind of phenomena are considered. The same mechanisms apply to ordinary sensory perception but in shorter time and length scales. No one in his right mind would claim that elementary particle theories or cosmology are pseudoscience although most or this work relates to phenomena which are not yet shown to exist.
e) Concerning the deletion of the article. I wrote it using the stub created by a person who had written an article about theories of consciousness. For the simple reason that I am the only person able to do this. This created a storm and some wandal (one of the respected administrators?) even destroyed the original links! The claim about manipulation of the vote is an unashamed lie and demonstrates how miserable the moral level of some people involved is.
f) What strengthens the impression that something stinks very badly is that my work was labelled as pseudoscience by criticists although <A HREF=" http://www.ams.org/mathweb/mi-mathbyclass.html">Mathematical Subject Classification Table of American Mathematical Society</A> has a link to my homepage. This together with above comments should really give to anyone with brains something to ponder about.
Matti Pitkanen
Hi Christopher, I have translated your nice page into german [3]. Regards, MBq -- 217.237.186.245 14:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Christopher. Page Talk:Solar sail claims you know something about laser cooling.
I thought the laser cooling article sounded more complicated than necessary. "an ensemble of atoms" -- is such technical terminology really necessary? (I don't mind technical terminology, when it can be used to create a brief, succinct definition. But when it's not significantly shorter than plain talk, why bother?) (Is it obvious I'm not a physicist?)
I hacked out a rough draft of a simpler-to-understand version at Talk:Laser_cooling . Would you mind reading it and either moving it to the corresponding article, or pointing out thing that must be fixed before moving it?
Surprisingly often, I think something is simple, yet when I try to explain it to someone else, my explanation gets longer and longer and I start to realize I don't really understand it as well as I thought I did.
Today, I realized that I don't really know if a single atom's transistion frequency is really only one precise and exact fixed frequency (merely appearing as a wider band because of the doppler effects of the atoms-to-be-cooled at nonzero temperatures, and the doppler effects of the atoms in the equipment used to produce the laser beam), or if it's a band of frequencies. (Don't metals and other large molecules interact with photons over a wide bands of frequencies? Or is just a large number of very closely-spaced exact frequencies?)
-- DavidCary 04:00, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Christopher, You re-redirected the gibberish-laden negative energy article to the exotic matter article, but i'm not sure it belongs there as there is currently no information about any negative energy there. Please see the exotic matter talk page for more Intangir 07:04, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Chris. On Energy, was an article I wrote some time ago and published elsewhere, I copied it into my user page more to see what topics turned up red (so I could write the entries) than anything else. I thank you for your thoughtful observations.
The main thrust of the article, in the context in which it was written, was to attack the fear-mongering of energy shortages on one hand and shine a harsh light on the pie-in-the-sky biofuel/wind/sunlight "solutions" that were being touted as fixes. The thrust of my argument was (and remains) that there are only two energy technologies that can scale fast enough to deal with the worlds appetite for power: coal and nuclear. And that the two reasons for this are; they are mature systems withs enough of their particular fuels available to grow their output significantly; they fit within the existing energy distribution infrastructure. All the other alternatives fail one of those two tests and ultimately because of that they cannot contribute significantly to the supply.
I will take umbrage with this statment of yours however:
The "denatured" plutonium can still have its weapons-suitable isotopes extracted. India did that after buying CANDU reactors from us, if memory serves. I was amused when Chretien claimed there was no way our reactors could be used for weapons programs when talking about selling them to China. He almost certainly knew this wasn't strictly true (just more difficult). Such is politics.
CANDUs were not used by India for Pu production. The reactor was CIRUS a pool reator based on the NRX design. This is a Canadian design- true- but it was fuelled with US enriched uranium, originaly Canada had fueled it with natural uraniun which would not have produced Pu in large enough amounts. Yes a CANDU can breed Pu, but China and everyone else that makes weapons grade fissionable material uses dedicated breeders. The issue is a bit of a red herring. The two links will give you the full story.
Thanks again for taking the time to comment DV8 2XL 06:01, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
I agree, this has to be put to a rest. DV8 2XL 04:16, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
A 10 kiloton explosion really does have a 1,000,000 m/sec debris velocity.
Your refusal to recognize this fact testifys of your ignorance about nuclear physics.*That is also why your nuclear weapons articles are unsatisfactory also. They contaim multiple physics errors which I tried to correct by editing them. Then I tried to address your physics errors in my A-bomb article which you have repeatedly vandalized becuase you are a megalomanic young kid with an unreasonable attitude. Tmayes1999
Could you please explain how is the allegations of systemic bias in the scientific community off-topic in scientific articles? Sincerley, JDR
That answer totally ignores the fact of systemic bias and glosses over the distortion of the count. And it's not "what it would be like under different conditions", it's the "use of biased samples" that is the point. But, I will continue the talk in T:BB. JDR 20:49, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for filling out the computronium article. I hope you don't mind my block move of a big chunk over to the low-power article. -- DavidCary 19:45, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Your input to an RfC at Talk:Depleted uranium#Request for Comments would be appreciated. DV8 2XL 07:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Your edit in GR was good, but the comment is less so. Electromagnetic forces have little to do with the solidity of objects, the Earth's surface, etc. It is the Pauli Exclusion Principle that establishes a Fermi level (see Fermi energy) which requires a great expenditure of energy to compress solid bodies such as rocks or steel, or to cause them to interpenetrate. With sufficient pressure, or at high temperature, the effect can be overcome; indeed the collapse to a neutron star is caused by the failure of electron degeneracy pressure to stop the collapse. Carrionluggage 06:39, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, we are reaching closure. Truly, if you refer to rigidity in terms of resistance to shear stress, then the E&M forces do help create atoms, molecules, crystals - so that's right. If one is talking of resistance to compression and to interpenetration, I still think the Fermi level dominates. In neutron stars, one does not have much rigidity (except some people believe they may have crystallized cores and then I am not sure about E&M effects), and the Fermi level determined the relative incompressibility. Same in a while dwarf but there it's electron degeneracy, not neutron degeneracy (though in a neutron star there is significant electron degeneracy, too). Carrionluggage 20:47, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
A couple of your recent reactions made me think I must have stepped on your toes, for which I apologize. My edits may get sloppy when my patience runs short; however, I think we're both on the same side, so if you spot errors that I've made, do fix them. I'm pretty sure I won't complain. Thanks, in general, I do appreciate your presence here on WP. linas 22:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Christopher, thanks for cleaning out some recent vandalism on the page devoted to radiation and nuclear accidents. I was the editor who separated the radiation and nuclear accident. Cadmium 21:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
![]() | This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Are you interested in forming a WikiProject ando/or WikiPortal cosmology? See also [1], [2]. -- Pjacobi 18:15, 2005 Mar 5 (UTC)
I'm utterly baffled as to why this article hasn't been VfD'ed as original research. Where are you hoping to go with it? Gazpacho 03:30, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
Replied to your post on my talk page. I don't know what you mean when you say "the statements are inconsistent". I read the article, I read the VfD discussion. I'm sorry my statements are puzzling. I tried to state the obvious as honestly and simply as I could. linas 23:20, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi Christopher. I'm just following up on your invitation on VfD to ask about references to criticisms of Harmonics Theory. Your rewritten sandbox article contains only 3 references. The "Remarks on the KARMEN anomaly" paper is really only tangentially related as it doesn't mention harmonics theory at all. It's important to Tomes, but I don't think anyone can reproduce his work that claims to predict a particle that isn't yet confirmed. The other two references are for HT advocacy. There are no references to HT criticism at all. What are your specific references for these two claims in your HT rewrite:
Thanks. Quale 15:39, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I just wanted to say "thanks" for all the effort you've put into the thankless (and apparently endless) effort to salvage something presentable from the outpourings of Ray Tomes' brain. As time goes by, however, it seems that Tomes' behavior is becoming increasingly non-collegial (e.g., broadcast insults, sock-puppet voting) such that I'm getting to the point where I'd rather see the thing get VfD'd for good, rather than have Tomes et al. be able to sneak their stuff back in via misdirection (..."but sandbox2 is clearly better than the current article!") or simply wearing down all opposition. -- Dcfleck 00:11, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)
Hi
well I've made a start on swiss roll (metamaterial). I must have created the link but not created the page (so it naturally wasn't on my watchlist). Thinking about it, this is a likely loophole for all sorts of vandalism and unwiki type behaviour (Oh, and I'm definitely not an expert...I probably made the edits you picked up on when I was wikifying a Nature paper that caught my eye one Thursday lunchtime!)
very best wishes and keep up the good pseudoscience NPOVing
Robinh 21:20, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
All the links I removed where dead. User:Oleg Alexandrov has a bot that scanned for them and I do the manual confirmation. The dead link list is at User:Mathbot/Bad_links and a discussion I had with Oleg at User talk:Oleg Alexandrov#Dead links. As you see the list is quite large so I'm trying to save some time by not adding any comments.
(Anti-grav isn't in the bots domain ( Category:Mathematics) but I stumbled on the article when checking a possible crank page, both had a dead link to this domain.)
-- R.Koot 16:44, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jpg/dabble/ , does appear to be broken).
You're probably right about saving my breath with people like that (whatever his number was). It's just annoying when ignorant people aren't willing to listen to other people's advice. Anyway, back to more editting ... --- Mpatel 07:12, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Please could you have a quick look at http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/articles/time.pdf I am, if anything, a philosopher and Penrose is about the limit (and beyond) my understanding. But I am concerned with well-anchored cross-disciplinary work. I hope this is not too far from your interests/knowledge. If so - could you 'refer on'? Also, and secondarily, there seems a Wikipedia convention of categorising problematic, challenging and difficult material as ' psuedoscience'which seems to be POV and I am beginning to wonder whether there needs much greater definition about this. Any thoughts? Thanks for any help. I am new to WIKI - is there a convention as to whether you reply on your page or on mine? Jeffrey Newman 08:42, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your response - and to User:Pjacobi also. Given what you have written, I will take this no further at present. The issues on mainstream science, proto and pseudo do concern me but I shall not rush! Jeffrey Newman 17:28, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
I accidentally ended up this page and was more than amazed by the very peculiar comments about my work made by Christopher Thomas.
a) No mechanism of consciousness is proposed. The very notion is nonsensical in the conceptual framework considered. The problem of consciousness is much much more deeper than inventing some mechanism. A deep generalization of quantum measurement theory as well as quantum theory itself together with a new ontology is needed before one can have even definition of consciousness. The theory relies on a unification of fundamental forces leading to a rich spectrum of predictions besides explaining the known basic facts. Mechanisms are proposed for various biological and brain functions such as long term memory: these mechanisms are inspired by the new view about time, space-time, and quantum. It seems that the attribute "wild" projects to the external world the deep ignorance of the person who wrote the comments above.
b) It is amusing to find that there still exist people who think seriously that classical mechanics might be enough to explain consciousness and regard as unscientific approaches based on the physics born in nineteenth century. Where do all these people come from?
c) There exists no chapter "Tesla was a master of space-time" which suggests that the person who wrote the comments has never visited my homepage. I hope that this person does not act as administrator.
d) The article does NOT state that psychokinesis and remote viewing are empirical facts but leaves their ontological status open. Only TGD based mechanisms giving rise to this kind of phenomena are considered. The same mechanisms apply to ordinary sensory perception but in shorter time and length scales. No one in his right mind would claim that elementary particle theories or cosmology are pseudoscience although most or this work relates to phenomena which are not yet shown to exist.
e) Concerning the deletion of the article. I wrote it using the stub created by a person who had written an article about theories of consciousness. For the simple reason that I am the only person able to do this. This created a storm and some wandal (one of the respected administrators?) even destroyed the original links! The claim about manipulation of the vote is an unashamed lie and demonstrates how miserable the moral level of some people involved is.
f) What strengthens the impression that something stinks very badly is that my work was labelled as pseudoscience by criticists although <A HREF=" http://www.ams.org/mathweb/mi-mathbyclass.html">Mathematical Subject Classification Table of American Mathematical Society</A> has a link to my homepage. This together with above comments should really give to anyone with brains something to ponder about.
Matti Pitkanen
Hi Christopher, I have translated your nice page into german [3]. Regards, MBq -- 217.237.186.245 14:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Christopher. Page Talk:Solar sail claims you know something about laser cooling.
I thought the laser cooling article sounded more complicated than necessary. "an ensemble of atoms" -- is such technical terminology really necessary? (I don't mind technical terminology, when it can be used to create a brief, succinct definition. But when it's not significantly shorter than plain talk, why bother?) (Is it obvious I'm not a physicist?)
I hacked out a rough draft of a simpler-to-understand version at Talk:Laser_cooling . Would you mind reading it and either moving it to the corresponding article, or pointing out thing that must be fixed before moving it?
Surprisingly often, I think something is simple, yet when I try to explain it to someone else, my explanation gets longer and longer and I start to realize I don't really understand it as well as I thought I did.
Today, I realized that I don't really know if a single atom's transistion frequency is really only one precise and exact fixed frequency (merely appearing as a wider band because of the doppler effects of the atoms-to-be-cooled at nonzero temperatures, and the doppler effects of the atoms in the equipment used to produce the laser beam), or if it's a band of frequencies. (Don't metals and other large molecules interact with photons over a wide bands of frequencies? Or is just a large number of very closely-spaced exact frequencies?)
-- DavidCary 04:00, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Christopher, You re-redirected the gibberish-laden negative energy article to the exotic matter article, but i'm not sure it belongs there as there is currently no information about any negative energy there. Please see the exotic matter talk page for more Intangir 07:04, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Chris. On Energy, was an article I wrote some time ago and published elsewhere, I copied it into my user page more to see what topics turned up red (so I could write the entries) than anything else. I thank you for your thoughtful observations.
The main thrust of the article, in the context in which it was written, was to attack the fear-mongering of energy shortages on one hand and shine a harsh light on the pie-in-the-sky biofuel/wind/sunlight "solutions" that were being touted as fixes. The thrust of my argument was (and remains) that there are only two energy technologies that can scale fast enough to deal with the worlds appetite for power: coal and nuclear. And that the two reasons for this are; they are mature systems withs enough of their particular fuels available to grow their output significantly; they fit within the existing energy distribution infrastructure. All the other alternatives fail one of those two tests and ultimately because of that they cannot contribute significantly to the supply.
I will take umbrage with this statment of yours however:
The "denatured" plutonium can still have its weapons-suitable isotopes extracted. India did that after buying CANDU reactors from us, if memory serves. I was amused when Chretien claimed there was no way our reactors could be used for weapons programs when talking about selling them to China. He almost certainly knew this wasn't strictly true (just more difficult). Such is politics.
CANDUs were not used by India for Pu production. The reactor was CIRUS a pool reator based on the NRX design. This is a Canadian design- true- but it was fuelled with US enriched uranium, originaly Canada had fueled it with natural uraniun which would not have produced Pu in large enough amounts. Yes a CANDU can breed Pu, but China and everyone else that makes weapons grade fissionable material uses dedicated breeders. The issue is a bit of a red herring. The two links will give you the full story.
Thanks again for taking the time to comment DV8 2XL 06:01, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
I agree, this has to be put to a rest. DV8 2XL 04:16, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
A 10 kiloton explosion really does have a 1,000,000 m/sec debris velocity.
Your refusal to recognize this fact testifys of your ignorance about nuclear physics.*That is also why your nuclear weapons articles are unsatisfactory also. They contaim multiple physics errors which I tried to correct by editing them. Then I tried to address your physics errors in my A-bomb article which you have repeatedly vandalized becuase you are a megalomanic young kid with an unreasonable attitude. Tmayes1999
Could you please explain how is the allegations of systemic bias in the scientific community off-topic in scientific articles? Sincerley, JDR
That answer totally ignores the fact of systemic bias and glosses over the distortion of the count. And it's not "what it would be like under different conditions", it's the "use of biased samples" that is the point. But, I will continue the talk in T:BB. JDR 20:49, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for filling out the computronium article. I hope you don't mind my block move of a big chunk over to the low-power article. -- DavidCary 19:45, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Your input to an RfC at Talk:Depleted uranium#Request for Comments would be appreciated. DV8 2XL 07:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Your edit in GR was good, but the comment is less so. Electromagnetic forces have little to do with the solidity of objects, the Earth's surface, etc. It is the Pauli Exclusion Principle that establishes a Fermi level (see Fermi energy) which requires a great expenditure of energy to compress solid bodies such as rocks or steel, or to cause them to interpenetrate. With sufficient pressure, or at high temperature, the effect can be overcome; indeed the collapse to a neutron star is caused by the failure of electron degeneracy pressure to stop the collapse. Carrionluggage 06:39, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, we are reaching closure. Truly, if you refer to rigidity in terms of resistance to shear stress, then the E&M forces do help create atoms, molecules, crystals - so that's right. If one is talking of resistance to compression and to interpenetration, I still think the Fermi level dominates. In neutron stars, one does not have much rigidity (except some people believe they may have crystallized cores and then I am not sure about E&M effects), and the Fermi level determined the relative incompressibility. Same in a while dwarf but there it's electron degeneracy, not neutron degeneracy (though in a neutron star there is significant electron degeneracy, too). Carrionluggage 20:47, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
A couple of your recent reactions made me think I must have stepped on your toes, for which I apologize. My edits may get sloppy when my patience runs short; however, I think we're both on the same side, so if you spot errors that I've made, do fix them. I'm pretty sure I won't complain. Thanks, in general, I do appreciate your presence here on WP. linas 22:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Christopher, thanks for cleaning out some recent vandalism on the page devoted to radiation and nuclear accidents. I was the editor who separated the radiation and nuclear accident. Cadmium 21:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)