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It "doesn't have any math behind it"?

Re: "and it requires Relativity to be completely wrong"

All you've done here is to ignore the disconnect between Relativity and quantum mechanics. The two ideas cannot be made to work with one another, so simple logic suggests that at least one of them must be in error.

Also: the failure to observe dark matter, even as instrumentation for observing it has become a million times more sensitive over the past 15 years, is further reason to suspect -- as has been stated by the Electric Universe theorists -- that gravity does not dominate beyond the planetary scale.

To the extent that people contemplate alternative ideas in cosmology, they do so because of cosmology's own failure to solve these same problems.

The reasons for 'crankery'

The advancement of science requires - absolutely - what I call 'forced' induction (as opposed to 'free' induction - what animals do). This requires that you go off on your own to think independently. The extent to which you 'go off alone' determines whether you will become an acceptable scientist or what you call a 'crank'. Unfortunately, the originality of your ideas is tied inextricably to the measure of your 'aloneness'.

Other people act as guides and supports (a frame of reference) upon which you can rely to 'set you straight' when you stray into the realm of the 'illucid'. As I have said, 'Self delusion is the bane of induction'. I know this to be true from extensive personal experience. It is a real struggle to keep one's thoughts on track without the assistance of other readily available opinion.

Thus, if a scientist at Cern has a really bad idea, he may mention it to a colleague who says,

'Did you slip on a bar of soap in the shower? Don't you remember the 'X' factor we were just talking about last week?'

And then the first guy says, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Forget it.'

Now he's back on track in less than ten seconds.

Someone alone however, may struggle for weeks in the same situation, unable to see a simple thing that another disinterested person would notice immediately. He may pursue the wrongheaded matter to some new bizarre conclusion and believe that he has found the Holy Grail. And the more effort he has put into it, the less he will be willing to give it up.

Therefore, if you go off alone you tend to become a 'crank'... but if you remain with the herd you tend to discover nothing new, i.e. and become a 'pundit'.

There is a Gaussian distribution here.

There are perhaps five or six thousand individuals who actually try to do 'forced induction' at the highest level. Half of them fall on the left 'crank' side of the distribution and half fall on the right 'pundit' side. Each half needs the other.

You could make the case that the 'extremes' ought to be cut off. But I would say, 'Who is to decide the cutoff point?'. I certainly wouldn't want to make such a momentous decision. Hence, I don't criticize other people's stuff in general since I understand how difficult it is to produce anything at all.

The same applies in the larger sense to wide groups of individuals. If the 'ship of science' (or one of its smaller boats) decides to drop anchor and wait for the truth to come to it ... they will stagnate and you will find that many more 'cranks' pop up to point out the paucity of perpendicular progress ... at the same time offering new and evermore bizarre solutions to present problems.

This is actually the present situation. The physics establishment has decided that they can proceed by experiment alone (data gathering) and that the data will tell them what to 'induce' next.

In fact, it will.

But this is the method of the animal population ... fre

The average AOL user is reason to doubt darwin

What's yours called? I've seen several. http://ebtx.com/lang/eminfrm.htm was the first google hit today. But I don't think it has color coding :).

WTF? Your being paranoid. Noone accused USA of being the fault of this.

If we want to find a source for the blame, China should be first on the list. China has let numerous coal fires burn out of control, becoming the number one source for carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.

According to experts, 2% to 3% of CO2 emissions originate from this single source. Check this map out to see how widespread the problem is - literally all of northern China has fires raging uncontrolled and disregarded by the Chinese government. So what if the USA has more storms that kill its citizens - in fact, this is a good thing for China.

If only the Deep Atlantic Conveyer Belt would shut down so the colonialist European pigs would freeze to death. Then China would be the world's only superpower. Serves them right for all their meddling!!!

EBTX had this idea a long, long time ago:
http://www.ebtx.com/mech/mech05.htm
True, this guy didn't actually have the materials in mind, but we ought to give him credit for coming up with it first.

I found a neat website on this thing:

http://www.ebtx.com/mech/optolite.html

They sound like the real deal. I'm going to stop by target and grab one. :)

Sun face must be related to Martian face.

I encountered an interesting idea for an electoral system here (Explained fully on subsequent pages)

I have a feeling this system might appeal to geek-types, as it seems to resemble a hill-climbing algorithm - an algorithm to find the global maxima of candidates. It might be said that current systems find only local maxima (Well-known candidates) if they can be considered to work at all.