(April 8, 2014 at 7:32 am)Galacticer Wrote:

(April 8, 2014 at 7:30 am)Zen Badger Wrote: But I looked up the wiki article on Tom van Flandern.

That was amusing.

Ohh trying that angle now?


won't help

it really is bollocks the whole of relativity


it looks like you are defending a belief system without any substance.

Sort of like Tom Van Flandern

Quote:In his book, and also in his newsletter and web site, Van Flandern alleged that experimental evidence is incompatible with mainstream scientific theories, but that mainstream scientists refuse to acknowledge this to avoid jeopardizing their funding.[9] He espoused a set of principles for assessing ideas, and dubbed theories that he deemed compliant with these principles as "Deep Reality Physics." He claimed that mainstream scientific theories, especially the prevailing theories regarding the big bang, solar system formation, relativity, and electrodynamics, are incompatible with his principles, and advocated his own replacement theories. Notably, he contended that some features on the surface of Mars were created artificially, likely by an extra-terrestrial civilization that had fled its original home planet which, Van Flandern believed, had been a moon of an exploded planet where the asteroid belt is now located. His views have not found acceptance within the mainstream scientific community.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Van_Flandern

Nutter Butters say the darnedest things.

http://youtu.be/q_XLE9WZKTw

(April 8, 2014 at 7:03 am)Zen Badger Wrote: You are either a troll or a genuinely stupid person.
I have yet to decide which.

Offering much more evidence than he has presented for his attack on relativity, he has proven he is both.

Tom Van Flandern?

Kook.

Crackpot.

Take your pick.

(April 8, 2014 at 9:14 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Admins, can we institute a literacy test for new members?
I think this would go a long way to filtering out the idiots.

We could, but then we would be discriminating against illitrerate people. I know a few pretty smart, comparing to this specimen.

Still, a test where you must select "they're, their, and there" correctly in a sentence would make the forum a whole lot more readable.

(April 8, 2014 at 3:07 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Still, a test where you must select "they're, their, and there" correctly in a sentence would make the forum a whole lot more readable.

Yet, you would be excluding people that aren't native English speakers, perhaps with interesting discussion. Yeah, its a whole bad idea.

Here's a pretty simple experimental verification of relativistic theory:

Take your time frame as 600 seconds (ten minutes).

In phase one of the experiment, use the time frame in talking to the love of your life.

In phase two of the experiment, use the time frame in parking your arse on a hot stove.

THAT'S relativity.

Boru

Oh man, that's so unfair, the one day I don't read, the circus comes to town!

Oh, and I forgot to mention muon decay. So there's that.

(April 8, 2014 at 10:09 pm)Sejanus Wrote: Oh, and I forgot to mention muon decay. So there's that.

Ooh, actual science? Get ready for vague, dismissive nothings from Mr Troll, if he ever comes back!