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Super Principia Mathematica
An anonymous reader writes "This is not an ordinary book and extraordinary would still be an understatement. Robert Louis Kemp has built a plateau of quod erat demonstrandum (Q.E.D.) in math, physics and logic; defined as his Super Principia Mathematica. Beyond brilliant, Kemp has worked on his book for over two decades, sacrificing personal comfort and financial security to laboriously bring to fruition his textbook style, hardback, expertly illustrated principles to the understanding level prevailed by most people. By 'most people' he means those who have a basic understanding of mathematics, geometry, algebra, calculus, physics and most importantly possessing the curiosity to learn." Read on for the rest of Gary's review.
Super Principia Mathematica: The Rage to Master Conceptual and Mathematica Physics
author
Robert Louis Kemp
pages
544
publisher
Flying Car Publishing Company
rating
10/10
reviewer
Gary R. Sorkin
ISBN
0984151826
summary
Presents physics and mathematics in the form of simple math models, pictures, definitons, and aphorisms
Kemp unpretentiously begins with a quick introduction of the laws of physics, math, relativity, quantum mechanics, and other issues regarding creation of matter, the beginning of the universe, plus dark energy, particle physics, atomic energy, geometry, time and space. In doing so he credits the groundbreaking work done by others over the centuries, such as; Nicolas Copernicus, Jonannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, and more recently Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Hendrik Lorentz, Alexander Friedman and the contemporary and controversial work of Steven Rado. However most notably Robert Louis Kemp celebrates the work and wisdom on one which he quotes throughout his prose and cites credit beyond all the others, and that is God. I would not classify this book within the genre of theology; however it is refreshing to see a man with such scientific acumen articulate his respect for a fundamentally diametrically opposing thought process.
It would be impossible to describe the scientific descriptions of Kemp without quoting an excerpt from his work to illustrate the nature of his writing. Halfway into this book he talks about the principles of The Vacuum Force. To quote, 'The Vacuum Force is popularly thought of as an attractive effect, which is incorrect since vacuums do not innately attract matter like Gravity does using mass. The Vacuum Force behaves similar to a home vacuum where the dust being "sucked" into a vacuum cleaner is actually being pushed in by the higher pressure air on the outside of the cleaner.' Kemp then goes into a discussion of the suction of fluids, which quite interestingly, 'if the pressure is inward (centripetal) motion, its motion does not follow a straight (radial) path to the center; it follows a spiraling path; this is called a vortex.' This is brought deeper into the discussion of the forces of the vacuum, the effect of 'zero-point energy,' called the Casimir Effect, proposed by Dutch physicist Hendrik B. G. Casimir. 'In quantum field theory, the Casimir effect and vacuum force are physical forces arising from a quantized field.' Kemp further goes on to show the relationships using algebraic equations.
An analytical critique of the examples of Robert Louis Kemp's work in a book review is like taking all of Mozart's music and summarizing it into a 30 second sound bite. Kemp writes concisely and cohesively on Einstein's Theory of Relativity, further explaining the relationships of gravitational force, energy, matter and time with countless drawings, equations, and formulas. This book is not to be read in one sitting, but to be savored, chapter by chapter preferably by a discussion group or class, and used as a foundation for further discovery. I have found nothing to contradict or state any opposing comments.
I will reiterate the tools described by Kemp, as stated in his Prologue, 'For me, the mathematics of physics, are the tools that God gave man that he may understand, describe, and predict the great works of God's created universe.' This textbook style book has hundreds of 'white board' equations, numerous expertly diagramed illustrations, and an index precisely affording the reader access to the points of reference within the text by subject. The reader will understand the relationships between such abstract forces and be able to compute the solution of an unknown variable based upon known formulas. His work is recommended for college level classroom studies, independent learning, and as a satisfying source of information for the curiosity within all of us. Robert Louis Kemp takes these tools and in this, one of his series of publications, Super Principia Mathematica: The Rage to Master Conceptual & Mathematical Physics -The General Theory of Relativity becomes a man and with a clear, cognitive vision describing God's universe to all fellow men.
You can purchase Super Principia Mathematica: The Rage to Master Conceptual & Mathematica Physics from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.
It would be impossible to describe the scientific descriptions of Kemp without quoting an excerpt from his work to illustrate the nature of his writing. Halfway into this book he talks about the principles of The Vacuum Force. To quote, 'The Vacuum Force is popularly thought of as an attractive effect, which is incorrect since vacuums do not innately attract matter like Gravity does using mass. The Vacuum Force behaves similar to a home vacuum where the dust being "sucked" into a vacuum cleaner is actually being pushed in by the higher pressure air on the outside of the cleaner.' Kemp then goes into a discussion of the suction of fluids, which quite interestingly, 'if the pressure is inward (centripetal) motion, its motion does not follow a straight (radial) path to the center; it follows a spiraling path; this is called a vortex.' This is brought deeper into the discussion of the forces of the vacuum, the effect of 'zero-point energy,' called the Casimir Effect, proposed by Dutch physicist Hendrik B. G. Casimir. 'In quantum field theory, the Casimir effect and vacuum force are physical forces arising from a quantized field.' Kemp further goes on to show the relationships using algebraic equations.
An analytical critique of the examples of Robert Louis Kemp's work in a book review is like taking all of Mozart's music and summarizing it into a 30 second sound bite. Kemp writes concisely and cohesively on Einstein's Theory of Relativity, further explaining the relationships of gravitational force, energy, matter and time with countless drawings, equations, and formulas. This book is not to be read in one sitting, but to be savored, chapter by chapter preferably by a discussion group or class, and used as a foundation for further discovery. I have found nothing to contradict or state any opposing comments.
I will reiterate the tools described by Kemp, as stated in his Prologue, 'For me, the mathematics of physics, are the tools that God gave man that he may understand, describe, and predict the great works of God's created universe.' This textbook style book has hundreds of 'white board' equations, numerous expertly diagramed illustrations, and an index precisely affording the reader access to the points of reference within the text by subject. The reader will understand the relationships between such abstract forces and be able to compute the solution of an unknown variable based upon known formulas. His work is recommended for college level classroom studies, independent learning, and as a satisfying source of information for the curiosity within all of us. Robert Louis Kemp takes these tools and in this, one of his series of publications, Super Principia Mathematica: The Rage to Master Conceptual & Mathematical Physics -The General Theory of Relativity becomes a man and with a clear, cognitive vision describing God's universe to all fellow men.
You can purchase Super Principia Mathematica: The Rage to Master Conceptual & Mathematica Physics from amazon.com. Slashdot welcomes readers' book reviews -- to see your own review here, read the book review guidelines, then visit the submission page.
Darn those Newton wanna-bes!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
...and the cover art is god awful but the content should be interesting.
super principia matlab is better
Take a breather and calm down. Seriously.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
If you get that big a hard-on reading a book about physics... well then, you must be an average slashdot reader.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Like I said, Dude is a crank, and anon reviewer is likely him.
I read the summary, and I'm still not sure, who is the book for? Is it for people who never took physics in college? Is it for people who have complete understanding of physics but like to read about basic physics for the fun of it? Or is the entire point of the review to show that actually there are some competent physicists who believe in God (since that was mentioned in the review more than anything else, and I would imagine with a higher frequency than in the actual book)?
Qxe4
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The Rage to Master Conceptual & Mathematica Physics gets me every so often. Just last week I murdered a coworker over the notion that equilateral triangles have 3 equal angles as well. This stuff ... it just gets you mad!
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
...but it sounds Bohring. Sorry.
I stopped reading the summary when I got to the part about Zero Point Energy. Do a google search on "Zero Point Energy" and you will understand why.
I love the warriors against ignorance. People that push back the darkness deserve our deepest gratitude and respect.
Could not get any preview pages of his books on Amazon, but googling revealed some truly crackpot things he had written. See:
http://photontheory.com/Kemp/Kemp.html
Anyone else immediately flash to Whitehead and Russel's Principia Mathematica? The title led me to assume that this was the "super" version of that, as in a more certain version. In which case, I thought that Kurt Gödel would like to have a word with the author!
I am the penguin that codes in the night.
Tell me stupid, but in my whole life, i have never read more clean, pure, self-explaining, extraordinary and even imaginary books, than math books. You cannot argue with 2+2=4. (in fact you could, but that's another story). It is only up to you to grasp the gods ideas, and have his message as clean as possible, unlike all the politicians,gamblers, criminals(politicians) and the rest of the mob who are doing their best to cloud your mind, and make you what...vote for them!!! Anyway, if this book is as good as it is described, it is worth readied by everyone, even by the math-less guys. In fact, especially by them.
He also seems to have some Mod point, since you are downmodded for stating simple truth
I had to look up Steve Rado, because I'm into controversial physics. The unified theory of Willie Johnson, Jr., for example.
But I couldn't find anybody writing of Rado with anything but mild contempt. There wasn't even a wikipedia entry on him.
So... Is this article's author (anonymous) actually Steve Rado ghost writing a serious book about physics in an insane attempt to bolster the credibility of his other book, Aethro-Kinetimatics (or wtfe), and then showing up on Slashdot to write an anonymous "review" of his own book as part of a grand plot to do some shit or other (who knows)?
"Stratigraphically the origin of agriculture and thermonuclear destruction will appear essentially simultaneous" -- Lee
No Kindle version? Rats!
....it's like a coffee table book for nerds?
This is an exact copy of what is posted on Amazon, and is the only review there.
I will shred my adversaries. Pull their eyes out just enough to turn them towards their mewing, mutilated faces. Illyria
From the title I expected something related to the original "Principa Mathematica" by Russell and Whitehead. This is abig disapointment.
This is a spam. The same review text appears on Amazon.com, EzineArticles, Anobii, etc. On the other hand, none of the Google search results (there are only 68) that mention the book come from any source even vaguely qualified in physics. Clearly fringe, may be nutty.
"By 'most people' he means those who have a basic understanding of mathematics, geometry, algebra, calculus, physics and most importantly possessing the curiosity to learn."
So he's going to print, what, 20 copies?
Not to mention the fact that Amazon has no information on the book other than a copy of the book review that was just posted on Slashdot.
Something smells rotten here. This is a misleading review which makes the book sound like a readable intro to college level math and physics.
Here's a quick summary of the article:
Super Principia Mathematica is liquid cocaine fed intravenously to your veins for two hours. It is a mental 12 hour orgasm. Reading this book will be the most important event of your life and by far the most pleasurable. Super Principia Mathematica was better than my wedding, better than watching my first son born, better than the time I had sexual intercourse with an entire college cheerleading squad while high on peyote.
Words cannot express it. It is like viewing the face of God. Forget the reviews, forget any summaries you've read, forget whatever anyone else has told you. Forget religion, forget God, forget science, forget everything you thought you knew. There is only Super Principia Mathematica, and it is beautiful.
Robert Louis Kemp is brilliance incarnate. He is divine. I am not sure how exactly he created this masterpiece of visual neurological cues which induce pure pleasure, but I now owe him absolutely everything. He has perfected visual neural interface with the genius stroke of a Renaissance Master and the prowess of an angel.
Read this book, repeatedly. You will want to take off work for the next week (perhaps longer) just to hold uninterrupted back-to-back readings. I am currently writing this from a netbook next to an open copy of the book. I must now continue to read.
I don't know what's worse, dryly making fun of this kind of thing or even more dryly implicitly making fun the sheer number of folks that won't get the joke.
The review is by these guys: http://www.pacificbookreview.com/About-Us.php
It's a self-published crank book with a hilarious title. The guy might be mentally ill. It's just sad. I know times are tough but still, this Gary Sorkin guy should be ashamed of taking Kemp's money to promote the book.
...a delusional nutjob is still a delusional nutjob, and mentioning God as the driving force behind the concept of mathematics and physics is just blatant pandering. Someone writing about sound, and already established - he's providing no new information - scientific information just to spread their message of superstition seems to me to be the worst kind of trolling. It's very subversive and dishonest. Obviously the reviewer has the same agenda as the author and is just as dishonest. Slashdot should be ashamed for allowing this kind of nonsense to get through. Big deal, a book about stuff that other people have discovered, but with a not-so-hidden agenda. If you can't see through this tripe then you need not be reading \. at all.
Is it available in electronic format?
Actually, it seems the review is just copy-pasted from the only Amazon review of it. The reviewer appears to be a shill, as they have done 90 reviews, all of which are 4 or 5 stars, and all of them are as absurdly effusive as this one.
C'mon samzenpus, you can do better than this...
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
"Kemp has worked on his book for over two decades, sacrificing personal comfort and financial security"
So? Sacrifices don't make a book great, great content does. I've known a nut job that spent every night obsessively working out a tin foil hat theory, and did lose his job because he couldn't stay awake at it - but he was still a nut job and his theory still in tin foil hat territory when it was all done.
By 'most people' he means those who have a basic understanding of mathematics, geometry, algebra, calculus, physics and most importantly possessing the curiosity to learn.
And this is a perfectly honest thing to say, if by 'perfectly honest' I mean a statement that is technically true only because they use a pathological definition of a common phrase.
Under most normal definitions of 'most people', most people believe the statement "God created man in his current form in the last 10k years". Of course, I could say nearly everyone believes that, if by 'nearly everyone' I mean those that believe the bible is the inerrant and literal truth.
We all have a perverse tendency to think that everyone is somewhat like us, probably fed in part by the fact that we spend a lot of time with people really are a lot like us. It's a rather straightforward kind of sampling bias that leads to absurd results such as extremists on both sides of the political spectrum (now we have the righties acting up, a few years ago the lefties were writing BusHitler and BuckFush) seriously and earnestly believing that they represent the views of the majority of Americans.
[ Disclaimer: I am a physicist. Not that I think it's relevant to the linguistic gymnastics I'm complaining about here, but disclosure is disclosure. ]
tl;dr
Napoleon asked Laplace why his book on celestial mechanics contained no reference to God. La Place replied, "Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis."
I piss off bigots.
For what it's worth, the review appears to be a verbatim copy of the first review on amazon.com, by one "Gary Sorkin, Pacific Book Review".
Pacific Book Review, in its profile on amazon.com, describes itself as follows: "We review books for well known authors and emerging authors, and enabling many first time authors to reach the publishers with a recognizable review. We help you get the exposure you need to market your book effectively. We review both published and unpublished books. The only wish we have is for your success as an author."
It appears that they are a buzz generator.
-- Conserve binary trees; recycle your email. --
The "anonymous author" of this review is http://www.pacificbookreview.com./ From their website:
"Welcome to Pacific Book Review - Our goal is to help authors succeed! Strengthen your credibility with a professional book review."
I haven't read the book, but it sets off enough alarms that I wouldn't spend money on it.
If you want a real book on the subject, read Roger Penrose's "The Road to Reality". I still flip through my copy regularly 5 years after buying it. I wish I had read it before I entered my Ph.D. program, it would have saved me much pain and suffering.
Beyond brilliant, Kemp has worked on his book for over two decades
But it's only a 544 page book. It might not read like Harry Potter but if he's been working on it at a pace of 25 pages a year (bet you the index and contents is 40 pages), can it really tell me something without forcing me to look for explanations in other places? I wonder how it compares to handbooks, which also list massive numbers of formulas in small print and still take up thousands of pages.
Know your pads. One time pad: good for cryptography. Two timing pad: where to take your mistress.
The reviewer was actually not Anonymous, they are known as "Pacific Book Review Company", see, they sell these reviews to people who live in caves and eat batshit. Nobody else can figure that out but the people WHO BUY THIS BOOK!
"Stratigraphically the origin of agriculture and thermonuclear destruction will appear essentially simultaneous" -- Lee
Get a Tenuki suit in this one?
Fire flower?
Which means they are probably an employee of the publisher.
C'mon samzenpus, you can do better than this...
Are you serious?
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
Apparently, by visiting the website http://www.superprincipia.com/index.htm this would be the 3rd in his series. But I do find it hard to locate any independent review of his work.
I honestly would love to find a good source for information and illumination like this. But so far the best I've seen are the Feynman Lectures put on line by Microsoft.
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html
I do think I'll look into it further though.
DS
This review tickled my BS detector. I looked up the "controversial" Stephen Rado and found what appears to be his site:
http://www.aethro-kinematics.com/
It proudly proclaims to have been online since 1995... in blinking text. The first topic? Reintroducing the notion of the aether.
A serious scientific author would probably not associate himself with a site like this. However, if I am wrong and this is a wonderful scholarly work, please let me know.
It's posted all over the place.
Google for any component phrase or set of words such as "ordinary would still be an understatement. Robert Louis Kemp has built a plateau of quod erat" and you'll get a number of hits.
Anon is at least efficient with his writing.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
- W. Wriston, former Citibank CEO
In fact it was a turnoff - makes it sound like it was written by a crackpot.
How about you guys? Anybody going to rush out and buy after reading that?
No sig today...
...with a bit of effort we could make this Amazon's Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt (http://www.amazon.com/Mountain-Three-Wolf-Short-Sleeve/dp/B002HJ377A) of Books.
I mean, get a LOAD of this: "An analytical critique of the examples... is like taking all of Mozart's music and summarizing it into a 30 second sound bite... This book is not to be read in one sitting, but to be savored, chapter by chapter... I have found nothing to contradict or state any opposing comments." Brilliant parody!
If the book is half as crazy as the review, it's got to be worth fifty bucks.
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A quick search on google also turned up the same review, word for word, on ezinearticles by a Gary R. Sorkin. Following back the links, I found that the review was written by this web site: http://www.pacificbookreview.com/
According to their FAQ, you pay them to review your book and they post their review all over the place. I'm sure that they're unbiased.
Admins, please get rid of this slashvertisement.
"However most notably Robert Louis Kemp celebrates the work and wisdom on one which he quotes throughout his prose and cites credit beyond all the others, and that is God."
"I will reiterate the tools described by Kemp, as stated in his Prologue, 'For me, the mathematics of physics, are the tools that God gave man that he may understand, describe, and predict the great works of God's created universe.' "
What on earth is this sort of claptrap doing on Slashdot?
Everyone is always so ready to cry 'shill'. Lets take a look at this objective article, just by picking out any old quote:
"Robert Louis Kemp takes these tools and in this, one of his series of publications, Super Principia Mathematica: The Rage to Master Conceptual & Mathematical Physics -The General Theory of Relativity becomes a man and with a clear, cognitive vision describing God's universe to all fellow men."
Sounds like an unbiased view to me. I'm pretty sure though the author should have gone with a snappier name. From the review, it sounds like this could reasonably just been called "Bible 2: Holier Than Thou".
Oh wow, explain this to me. Slashdot is supposed to be about moderated quality content. And a shill "book review" from Amazon, created by company whose sole purpose is to create sham reviews for weak authors is on the front page of Slashdot????
What the freaking, fucking hell!?!?!?!?!?!
Get real...
Geez. Someone needs to take a good look at how this article got on the front page.
Bruce Perens.
pretty obvious this is a bought review.... but don't knock an amazon reviewer because they always give 4 or 5 stars... i have over 100 reviews, and they are all 4 or 5 stars... my word should be trusted less because i'm an informed consumer that only buys and reviews quality products?
Is it standard practice to include a referral link on the purchase? Poor form either way.
The press release brags about Intelligent Design and how the book is a counter to Hawking's, "There is no God theory". Yuck. http://www.superprincipia.com/Press_Release_2.pdf
he may well be both the amazon reviewer and the slashdot submitter
unless they possess a substantial force of character, its hard for these kinds of nutjobs to pull others into their delusion. At least in my own experience, the science cranks tend to generally be pretty bad at it, and live secluded, lonely, wasted lives.
its pretty sad, really. if you're going to be crazy, at least it'd be nice to have company.
C'mon samzenpus, you can do better than this...
Agreed. A simple google search would show the reviewer is a shill.
They recently wrotes "physics of everything" books.
It's light on the math - though a lot of the mathematics of relativity are in fact quite simple. (e=mc^2 - duh). It is heavy on giving you a good conceptual understanding of the matter.
I am curious as to this book - but would like to hear more about it. So many of the books achieve the wrong balance between being too detailed, and not detailed enough - or going into detail on some things - and glossing over the background behind it. Hawking understands this dilemma - which is why he's essentially written the same book three times - trying to fine-tune the message each time.
Also - I think the subject of relativity has been beat to death. It used to be edgy - but there is so much more beyond it that I haven't even scratched the surface on.
That is John Baez crackpot test .
I want to thank all you /.'s for protecting this old feller from the sneaky-hoodwinks of the modern pickpocket tent-revileist preachers of dogma-science and mega-churches.
Do y'all think maybe one or more mega-churches and politicians got together and hired the book author for improving creationist credibility? Propaganda works better today in the USA, then it ever did in old Nazi Germany. I guess we can thank technology, poor educations, and trickle-down-burden economics for that.
I was about to buy a book that I would of thrown away the same day. Damn, now I got to send an equivalent donation to FSF or EFF, but I saved the money, because of y'all.
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?
It does seem to be a rather glowing review of a book that's going to have limited appeal. If it were a true reflection of the opinion of a critical technical reviewer I would expect less glow and more substance.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
I left a review:
The cover is super tacky.
Looks like a website from 1995.
Come on, take some pride in your work...
Was going to buy it till I saw the cover. Maybe next edition.
If you like it vote it up! :-)
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unless they possess a substantial force of character, its hard for these kinds of nutjobs to pull others into their delusion.
Apparently, as Winston Zedemore put it,
If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say
Maybe it's time to have moderation on stories, not just comments.
the author's credibility.
Well... it might look slightly better in IE6
http://www.superprincipia.com/
God = Unnecessary hypothesis.
If this book begins making it, I don't see the point on reading the rest of it.
Here's a preview.
book 1
book 2
book 3
Sadly, we cannot follow all the wisdom to the fullest end, as some pages are left out, to make us hungrier still
his blog (a bit barren as yet)
Apparently he does NOT have a PhD
This reminds me of Motion Mountain. Beautifully typeset with excruciating attention to detail. And complete bullshit. I guess delusions that you're the next Newton cause people like this to throw their lives away and write textbooks.
I'd seriously like to get my time back after having read the review and then some of the excerpts from the book. I think I lost some IQ points after having read this.
Hey, if this book is not up your alley, then perhaps you'd like to attend the prestigious 1st Annual Catholic Conference on Geocentrism
The original principia mathematica is not at all about physics, and surely isn't readable by just anybody.
Check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica
If it were a true reflection of the opinion of a critical technical reviewer I would expect it would be from someone who wasn't paid by the author to write and spam around the review.
Isn't that what the little "+" and "-" are for?
Clicked "-", selected "binspam", hopefully a few hundred others will do the same and the spam will go away.
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
i have over 100 reviews, and they are all 4 or 5 stars... my word should be trusted less because i'm an informed consumer that only buys and reviews quality products?
Yes that is correct.
Or we could say you are a binary indicator, with a bias offset of 4 stars.
If we never see you go full range, how do we know you don't just love everything?
Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now, and let us slay him... and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
you are NOTHING. 0 stars.
The Federal Trade Commission just a couple of weeks ago reiterated that the practice of undisclosed paid reviews qualifies as false advertising: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/08/reverb.shtm
you are all idiots.
my kingdom for a mod point.
So wait... I can set up a business where I take money from writers to read their books and gush effusively about them?
This sounds a lot better than that home business I'm running where sell a franchise kit to strangers telling them how to make money by selling franchise kits to strangers.
Are you kidding? Super Principia Octave has all the important functionality and none of the ridiculous cost!
Can we all please agree that the important thing about super principia heroes is not what super power they possess, but rather that they are kinky and wear their underwear on the outside!?
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Haven't read the book, but the website looks like the work of a crank...
The "About the Author" section mentions the author was born during a full moon. Exactly why is this relevant?
During which lunar cycle were Einstein, Newton, Kepler, Copernicus born?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Mr. Kemp seems to be a crank, and like most cranks his writing skills are abysmally bad.
Just read his autobiography on the Amazon web page. Seriously, his description of his professional life is about as compelling as reading the listings from a telephone book. I can only image how mind-numbing the books must be, but I'm certainly not going to pay $150 to find out.
Did Slashdot get hacked?
If you want to buy the fantastic overview of physics that this review is trying to sell just buy the Feynmann Lectures.
Religion is poison to rationality, and we lose sight of that at our own peril. -- Lurker2288
Faulty assumption one: you need to buy a product in order to review it. ... or post-purchase rationalization.
Faulty assumption two: the first person nominative singular in the English language is somehow qu8, or kewl, or 733t when written in the wrong case.
Faulty assumption three: there is no such thing as confirmation bias.
Faulty assumption three(a), because I can't be arsed to renumber but it fits here:
Faulty assumption four: the information you're informing yourself with is reliable.
Faulty assumption four(a), because I can't be arsed to renumber but it fits here: the information that the people who wrote the information you're informing yourself with is reliable.
Faulty assumption four(b) I could go on...
Faulty assumption five: you do not totally fail it.
Faulty assumption six (on my part): assuming that the "it" immediately above does not refer to sucking donkey balls.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
following in his grandfathers vootshteps, vootshteps, vootshteps!
i won't even read anything further as you are obviously an idiot.
you are NOTHING. 0 stars.
True dat.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
An anonymous reader ... named Gary.
Sounds like the title of a Kraftwerk album.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
To be honest, I don't hold /. to extraordinarily high standards, but this is so deeply wrong, I feel compelled to register my objections.
This is so obviously a crank book with a commissioned hagiographical review, I don't even begin to understand how it made its way onto the front page. As a professional physicist, I've seen any number of these sorts of things and they're all complete rubbish. For a tech-related site, I would have expected better. Waaaaay better.
Good grief.
So wait... I can set up a business where I take money from writers to read their books and gush effusively about them?
"Read"?
The GP said "review", not "read".
Some skimming may be necessary in order to avoid the worst errors, but actually reading the book seems like a superfluous and cost increasing part of the business plan.
is this crap doing on the front page of any news website? I've had it. I'm removing Slashdot from my bookmarks. Goodbye.
"he quotes throughout his prose and cites credit beyond all the others, and that is God. I would not classify this book within the genre of theology; however it is refreshing to see a man with such scientific acumen articulate his respect for a fundamentally diametrically opposing thought process."
I wouldn't find this refreshing but despressing.
Unless, of course, it's not Kemp "quoting God", but the reviewer wanting to make a point while Kemp is only citing other fellow humans as they think their way about transcendental matters.
That, or you'll provide some proof that it's certainly the Word of God that he was citing and not the word of a man that told God told something.
It seems that Manutius is still in operation!
"That" was two smug and obnoxious slashdot members picking on some person who hasn't got much, if any, of an artistic bent, and acting like they have some imaginary reason to feel superior.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I am not a scientist, have not read the 3 volumes, can not speak for the validity of the material, I have no affiliation with any one involved with the book, and agree the original "review" may not be completely sincere...
But having others being critical of it without having read the book is in my mind just wrong. That's whats wrong with the world now a days..people make knee jerk responses without having the whole story.
For those questioning the religious aspects...His blog comment indicates "I don’t know about God using me in the last days? But I can see his handiwork in the universe through the math and physics; and would like to share that vision with others. However, the Super Principia Mathematica is not a religious treatise. There is nothing religious in the Super Principia, except for the Prologue.". I suspect anything beyond that and he is trying to leverage off of Hawking's recent publication.
The book site has excerpts available. The material seems to have some relevant references from history for foundation as well as bleeding edge science as well. Programs I've seen on the Science Channel seems to have similar topics that he covers. So there may be some merit there.
He worked on the Moller Flying Car and at JPL. I would hope that gets him a little credit.
Eric B
ebresie@gmail.com
Slashdot, what?? WHAT and HOW?
Yeah, but Russell and Whitehead would make for a better videogame.
"Dear Bertrand, please come to the castle. I've baked an incompleteness theorem for you. Princess Godel"
This is a bad story, but is also why I love /. - the commenters will gladly point out BS in an article.
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
... becomes a man and with a clear, cognitive vision describing God's universe to all fellow men.
Any scientific book that is set on explaining an Universe created by God, doesn't deserve to be called a scientific book. I'll pass on this one and read Hawking's newest.
How did this get on the front page? What process does slashdot use to select its stories? It's a serious question.
Super Principia Mathematica: The Rage[sic] to Master Conceptual and Mathematica[sic] Physics
Without RTFA, is this an Onion review?
However most notably Robert Louis Kemp celebrates the work and wisdom on one which he quotes throughout his prose and cites credit beyond all the others, and that is God. I would not classify this book within the genre of theology; however it is refreshing to see a man with such scientific acumen articulate his respect for a fundamentally diametrically opposing thought process.
I call troll =). Heck, I doubt even theologians would take this guy seriously. Sounds like one of the people who keeps spamming our entire physics department every once in a while with "proofs" that the earth is going to collide with hell (you can't make this shit up).
however it is refreshing to see a man with such scientific acumen articulate his respect for a fundamentally diametrically opposing thought process.
Richard would flay you then crucify you for making such a statement.
Unbelievably this piece of trash book's sales rank is up to #895 because of this obviously planted review.
No, your word shouldn't be trusted because you are an idiotic lying fucking moron. Ass.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
Triangle Man hates Person Man.
+1000. Would you eat at a restaurant if you could only find REVIEWS THEY PAID FOR?
Not only that, but the book itself is rather expensive.
I'll wait for some unbiased reviews. And you can't tell me a review is unbiased if they're paid by the author or publisher.
AC
I think I have pretty good basic understanding of geometry, calculus and physics, but I still don't understand the first paragraph of the summary.
AccountKiller
Unless Sorkin includes some mathematical proof of god's existence in this book, his inclusion of assertions that any of what he describes is due to god merely discredits the entire book.
Why can't superstitious people keep their faith inside metaphysics where it actually has validity, instead of spilling it all over actual material reality?
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Have any of you ever heard of the Flying Car Publishing Company? This set of books is so amazingly brilliant that Flying Car doesn't even feel the need to publish any other books whatsoever!
Sure he can, even if he hasn't to date tried to. Remaining positive is important, even if someone continues to disappoint.
A word by word cut & paste.
And is the only 5 star review for the book.
If you look at all of the other reviews buy the same user you see that they are all 5 or 4 star reviews, almost all 5.
and somehow 23 people have found it helpful.
Look at the 1 star reviews and laugh.
As of Postgres v6.2, time travel is no longer supported.
Speaking of Amazon reviews, nothing beats this. They should publish the collection in a book.
...but I don't much care if you think it is. I've got your subject "right here". Belief in a god, any god, is a delusion. Einstein was an atheist. Thanks for playing.
Just how many Slashdot accounts do you have?
Mike Kristopeit (1900306)
Kristopeit, Michael (1892492)
What are you talking about? You have never pointed anything out that I was wrong about. Geez you really are psychotic aren't you?
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
He has at least five. He uses them to mod others down on his own posts.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
wrong again... never fails
straighten your dick, pee hook
you are NOTHING
slashdot was architected by idiots.
1 person does not equal 1 user UNLESS YOU FORCE SUCH RESTRICTIONS.
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by Michael Kristopeit (1751814) on 01.09.2010 19:24 (#33443952)
i have 20 accounts with mod points
by Mike Kristopeit (1900306) on 16.09.2010 22:43 (#33607214)
i've never received moderation points ... slashdot was architected by idiots
nope, pretty much appears that slashdot is working as it is designed, you are the idiot, and it's designed to keep idiots from getting modpoints.
you are NOTHING
and you are a MORON
tell pee hook to straighten his dick.
you are NOTHING
It looks like you're trying to make a “your momma” joke, would you like help with that? /clippy