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- From: polowin@chem.queensu.ca (Joel Polowin)
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA ABIAN replies to KEITH THOMPSON
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- Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Queen's University
- References: <abian.725749960@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu> <1992Dec31.151458.21713@telesoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:09:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.151458.21713@telesoft.com> kst@telesoft.com (Keith Thompson @pulsar) writes:
-
- >My problem with Dr. Abian's theory is that it can explain anything, and
- >therefore it explains nothing. I've asked Dr. Abian to present one or
- >more of the following:
- >
- >1. A potential observation, actual or imaginary, possible or
- > impossible, which could *not* be explained by, or which would
- > contradict, his theory. Without this, I assert that his theory has
- > no predictive power. It doesn't truly explain observations; at best,
- > it merely re-states them in different (and less rigorous) terms.
-
- Abian has given several consequences of his theory which contradict
- experimental observation. He has stated that subatomic particles are
- unstable inversely proportional to how "big" they are. He has stated
- that all of the interactions which currently are thought to vary as
- 1/r^2 really vary as 1/r^3. He has stated that concentrated sulfuric
- acid releases heat on mixing with water in order to maintain the status
- quo of its concentration by evaporating the water away -- even though
- conc. sulfuric readily absorbs water vapour from the air.
-
- One doesn't win any Nobel prizes for theories that contradict piles and
- piles of experimental data.
-
- Joel Polowin
- polowin@silicon.chem.queensu.ca, polowin@chem.queensu.ca,
- polowinj@qucdn.queensu.ca
-