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- From: sec@otter.hpl.hp.com (Simon Crouch)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Re: "The Universe of MOTION" (crackpot index)
- Message-ID: <640037@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: 16 Oct 92 13:42:01 GMT
- References: <1992Oct14.212707.12950@spss.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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- WHAT we REALLY NEED is some NOTION of......
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- oops, sorry, I got carried away there. Let's try again:
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- What we really need is some notion of "crackpot density" (CPD). It's one
- thing to demolish(TM) western science in a long tedious spouting but another
- thing entirely to manage it in one page! So, let's have these indices
- normalised.
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- Oh, BTW, I've noticed that the maximum possible crackpot density (using
- JB's definitions and a TOP SECRET normalisation procedure) is
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- (Pi/Fine Structure Constant)^(Feigenbaum's number)
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- Can I have my Nobel Prize now?
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