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Is Newtonian physics secretly Keplerian?
5 Comments Published by admin March 19th, 2008 in Physics, Doctors of Philosophy, Newton, Lisi Affair, Puns, KeplerFor physicists Newton’s laws are sacred.1 When Nature contradicts Newton’s laws physicists add an amendment to the law to save Newton’s authority. String Theory is such an amendment invented to explain an imaginary singularity2 in Newton’s force definition. It never occurs to physicists to discard Newtonian legislature no matter how strongly Nature rejects it.
In practice, […]
An exceptionally simple theory of everything
0 Comments Published by admin December 7th, 2007 in Uncategorized, Physics, Lisi AffairHas physics made a quantum leap from the 18th century to the 21st? Are we witnessing physicists finally dropping distribution and evaluation methods invented by people wearing authority wigs in favor of online discussion? It appears so.
Consider this paper called An exceptionally simple theory of everything. Rather than going through traditional channels of slow moving […]
Doctor Lisi the new Einstein - 2
0 Comments Published by admin November 24th, 2007 in Uncategorized, Lisi AffairDoctor Lisi’s successful campaign earned him that great honor the news media reserves for physicists: the new Einstein.
His peers who also covet the New Einstein title now hate him and will unleash a series of commentary thrashing the content of the paper. Big mistake. What the media giveth science cannot take back. Once canonized forever […]
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