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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: "Are your theories falsifiable?"
- Message-ID: <C1Hz3I.L1n@well.sf.ca.us>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:26:05 GMT
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- re:From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.skeptic,alt.paranormal,alt.sci.physics.new-
- theories,
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- rec.arts.startrek.tech
- Subject: Re: New Physics, Healing, Paranormal
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:41:38 GMT
- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
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- sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
- >I have been told that I am a "super star" in some powerful
- >circles that have decided that traditional universities are "brain dead"
- >and that something new-age is needed.
-
- And you're humble, too, apparently.
-
- >How is the new physics different from the old physics?
-
- The main difference is that the old physics exists to explain
- experimental evidence. You, on the other hand, don't seem to make
- much mention of evidence.
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- Are your theories falsifiable?
- --
- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
-
- Dear Don,
- Humility is not one of my false virtues. Is Murray Gell-Mann humble?
- "Now take for example my case,
- I've a bright intellectual brain.
- In all London City, there's no one so witty.
- I've said so, again, and again!
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- You must stir it and strump it.
- And blow your own trumpet.
- Or, trust me, you haven't a chance!"
- I think that's Ruddygore.
-
- Yes, Don my theories are always falsifiable. Even Marcello Truzzi was
- very clear about that.
-
- In one of my mad dog schemes to communicate faster than light and from
- future to past on the quantum spin connection, I predict that the receiver
- light will be linearly polarized by amount sin twice the angle between the
- sender and receiver doubly refracting polarizers multiplied by cos of the
- sender interferometer phase difference.
-
- There are three problems, linearity of the time evolution operator,
- unitarity of the time evolution operator and orthogonality of the single
- sender photon polarization states.
-