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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.
...and the cover art is god awful but the content should be interesting.
super principia matlab is better
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.
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
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!
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
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.
Zero point energy is the ground state of a quantum mechanical system.
It's been used and abused by the sci-fi world, but it's a real scientific concept.
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.
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.
Yes, it is a concept, but the fact that it was brought up in the summary is a red flag. Out of all the subjects in physics it gets special mention. Crackpot alert.
You are obviously educated evil.
Go back to your non-4 corner world and leave those who have the understanding and enlightenment of Timecube to appreciate it.
Why OpalCalc is the best Windows calc
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
As pointed out by drewhk (1744562), this review appears to be a work for hire by a firm that is paid to write book reviews by authors and publishers. LinkedIn lists Gary Sorkin as Founder/Consultant for Pacific Communication Group, and the whois entry lists Nicole Sorkin as Registrant. There is an identical review on Amazon that is attributed to the firm.
The /. Book Review Guidelines state:
"Important: If you have a relationship (other than as an ordinary reader) to the author or publisher of a book you're reviewing, disclose that relationship. "
I wonder if such a relationship exists, and if so why it is hidden?
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?
Geez. Someone needs to take a good look at how this article got on the front page.
Bruce Perens.
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
"Wanna be" indeed. From his own bio:
"I know that there are some readers that would ask, why does Kemp not have a PhD? The truth is reader, I did not want to waste years trying to convince others of my ideas, or doing research for someone else, when my own personal research required that same enormous time."
Not that one has to have a PhD to have insights, but his first book has a subtitle "A Universal Kinetic Aether Theory" which should really tell you enough about this guy's 'credentials'. If you look through the other concepts he mentions are in his book I would imagine that it is all a very elaborate 'first cause' argument for the existence of a creator deity.
This 'review' is a disgrace to the slashdot frontpage...
Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity
It's a way for them to get free publicity for their book because this Pacific Book Review company will spam their shill reviews all over the internet.
Also "I did not want to waste years trying to convince others of my ideas" seems to suggest "I know I am right, this pesky peer-review is for sissies"
truly horrendous
Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity
Newton did the same thing. Also Galileo.
Probably because there wasn't really anything comparable at the time to the peer-review system of today. But even taking that into account if you think that Newton or Galileo didn't have debates with their contemporaries about their ideas or attempted to convince others of their ideas you would be wrong.
That company has a testimonials page. A company which writes fake testimonials has a testimonials page. Incredible. Here's what one author had to say:
when one dots the final 'tea' and crosses the last 'eye' or two upon a long-labored-over book, no satisfaction comes more welcome (to the author) than does a commendation from a discerning and exacting professional.
Ha ha ha.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
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
Wait! There's a checklist for this!
He seems to score fairly low on the Crackpot index based on the review, but if anyone has the book I wonder how high the actual text will score?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Hey, if this book is not up your alley, then perhaps you'd like to attend the prestigious 1st Annual Catholic Conference on Geocentrism
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.
There is an identical review on Amazon that is attributed to the firm.
But did you read the OTHER review on Amazon?
"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."
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."
What dictionary do you have? Because mine doesn't say "debate (n): a situation where a powerful person or entity tells a less powerful one to bloody well do and say what they're told, or they'll get their bastard ears cut off with a rusty wood saw. And that's just for starters".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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
Choice Excerpts:
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.
the wisdom on one? cites credit beyond all the others?
I have found nothing to contradict or state any opposing comments
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Some more subtle examples: the reviewer lauds the book for containing... an index. In his conclusion, he states that inside the book, the author becomes a man.
I can't tell if this was all meant to obfuscate the fact that the review was written by a professional reviewer (in the vocational sense), or if it's a complex ploy to convince readers that this book is loved by (and therefore accessible to) stupid people.
I can't comment, because I only have daughters and while I quite like peyote, it doesn't like me.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Actually, I think one look at his website is enough to score very highly indeed. Why is it that all internet crackpots seem to have websites that look like that? There must be some web developer who specialises in table layouts with low quality pictures of astronomical phenomena especially for people like this.
"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.
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"
Don't take it personally; it doesn't like anyone.
All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain