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- From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor)
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- Subject: Re: "The Universe of MOTION" (book review)
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- Date: 14 Oct 92 23:15:07 GMT
- References: <1992Oct13.191813.1751@cnsvax.uwec.edu> <1992Oct14.193139.8517@galois.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Oct14.193139.8517@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
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- > "nuclear" physics, general relativity, relativistic mass
-
- >To recall, the crackpot index is presently given as follows.
-
- >-1) A -5 point starting credit.
- >0) 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false.
- >1) 2 points for every statement that is logically inconsistent.
- >2) 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful
- >correction.
- >3) 30 points for each posting that claims a revolutionary theory but
- >gives no concrete testable predictions.
- >4) 10 points for each favorable comparison of oneself to Einstein, or
- >claim that special or general relativity are fundamentally misguided
- >(without good evidence).
- >5) 10 points for each claim the quantum mechanics is fundamentally
- >misguided (without good evidence).
- >6) 20 points for each favorable comparison of oneself to Newton
- >claim that classical mechanics is fundamentally misguided (without
- >evidence).
- >7) 5 points for each word in all capital letters (except for posters
- >with defective keyboards).
- >9) 10 points for every use of science fiction works as if they were
- >fact.
- >10) 20 points for claiming that the "scientific establishment" is engaged
- >in a "conspiracy" to prevent ones work from gaining its well-deserved fame,
- >or suchlike.
- >11) 10 points for pointing out that one has gone to school, as if this was
- >evidence of sanity.
-
- You should add:
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- 12> 2 points (per word) for well-defined physics terms enclosed in quotation
- marks, as if there were something wrong with them.
-
- 13> using the word relativistic without knowledge of its meaning, as
- evidenced from the context ;-)
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