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  1. @cenobyte

    I've spent the last hour-plus going through more of the "stuff" he links from the overview, and (a) I still have no way to tell if it makes sense or if it's just LLM-generated physics drivel, and (b) I get more and more concerned that "one self-educated non-physicist overturns all of modern physics and solves all outstanding problems", while hypothetically tenable, strains credulity.

    I mean, a long history of cranks "disproving" Einstein (dunno why they all hated relativity so much) and Dirac and everything else just screams "This guy is a nutter". The alarm bells are ringing. I really want people who actually understand this stuff to read it and tell me whether I can write this guy off as such a crank.

    But weirder things have happened. Einstein was just a clerk in a patent office who no one had heard of when he demonstrated the then-new and completely unsupported-by-evidence quantum theory, which had only been proposed to solve the (ultra)violet catastrophe, could actually explain the completely unrelated and then-unexplained photoelectric effect. He won the Nobel in physics for that - not relativity - and cemented quantum theory in place, even if he never liked it. A nobody who single-handedly stamped the dividing line between classical physics and modern physics.

    <brain-exploding>

    #crank #cranks #relativity #nutter

  2. @cenobyte

    I've spent the last hour-plus going through more of the "stuff" he links from the overview, and (a) I still have no way to tell if it makes sense or if it's just LLM-generated physics drivel, and (b) I get more and more concerned that "one self-educated non-physicist overturns all of modern physics and solves all outstanding problems", while hypothetically tenable, strains credulity.

    I mean, a long history of cranks "disproving" Einstein (dunno why they all hated relativity so much) and Dirac and everything else just screams "This guy is a nutter". The alarm bells are ringing. I really want people who actually understand this stuff to read it and tell me whether I can write this guy off as such a crank.

    But weirder things have happened. Einstein was just a clerk in a patent office who no one had heard of when he demonstrated the then-new and completely unsupported-by-evidence quantum theory, which had only been proposed to solve the (ultra)violet catastrophe, could actually explain the completely unrelated and then-unexplained photoelectric effect. He won the Nobel in physics for that - not relativity - and cemented quantum theory in place, even if he never liked it. A nobody who single-handedly stamped the dividing line between classical physics and modern physics.

    <brain-exploding>

    #crank #cranks #relativity #nutter

  3. @cenobyte

    I've spent the last hour-plus going through more of the "stuff" he links from the overview, and (a) I still have no way to tell if it makes sense or if it's just LLM-generated physics drivel, and (b) I get more and more concerned that "one self-educated non-physicist overturns all of modern physics and solves all outstanding problems", while hypothetically tenable, strains credulity.

    I mean, a long history of cranks "disproving" Einstein (dunno why they all hated relativity so much) and Dirac and everything else just screams "This guy is a nutter". The alarm bells are ringing. I really want people who actually understand this stuff to read it and tell me whether I can write this guy off as such a crank.

    But weirder things have happened. Einstein was just a clerk in a patent office who no one had heard of when he demonstrated the then-new and completely unsupported-by-evidence quantum theory, which had only been proposed to solve the (ultra)violet catastrophe, could actually explain the completely unrelated and then-unexplained photoelectric effect. He won the Nobel in physics for that - not relativity - and cemented quantum theory in place, even if he never liked it. A nobody who single-handedly stamped the dividing line between classical physics and modern physics.

    <brain-exploding>

    #crank #cranks #relativity #nutter

  4. @cenobyte

    I've spent the last hour-plus going through more of the "stuff" he links from the overview, and (a) I still have no way to tell if it makes sense or if it's just LLM-generated physics drivel, and (b) I get more and more concerned that "one self-educated non-physicist overturns all of modern physics and solves all outstanding problems", while hypothetically tenable, strains credulity.

    I mean, a long history of cranks "disproving" Einstein (dunno why they all hated relativity so much) and Dirac and everything else just screams "This guy is a nutter". The alarm bells are ringing. I really want people who actually understand this stuff to read it and tell me whether I can write this guy off as such a crank.

    But weirder things have happened. Einstein was just a clerk in a patent office who no one had heard of when he demonstrated the then-new and completely unsupported-by-evidence quantum theory, which had only been proposed to solve the (ultra)violet catastrophe, could actually explain the completely unrelated and then-unexplained photoelectric effect. He won the Nobel in physics for that - not relativity - and cemented quantum theory in place, even if he never liked it. A nobody who single-handedly stamped the dividing line between classical physics and modern physics.

    <brain-exploding>

    #crank #cranks #relativity #nutter

  5. @cenobyte

    I've spent the last hour-plus going through more of the "stuff" he links from the overview, and (a) I still have no way to tell if it makes sense or if it's just LLM-generated physics drivel, and (b) I get more and more concerned that "one self-educated non-physicist overturns all of modern physics and solves all outstanding problems", while hypothetically tenable, strains credulity.

    I mean, a long history of cranks "disproving" Einstein (dunno why they all hated relativity so much) and Dirac and everything else just screams "This guy is a nutter". The alarm bells are ringing. I really want people who actually understand this stuff to read it and tell me whether I can write this guy off as such a crank.

    But weirder things have happened. Einstein was just a clerk in a patent office who no one had heard of when he demonstrated the then-new and completely unsupported-by-evidence quantum theory, which had only been proposed to solve the (ultra)violet catastrophe, could actually explain the completely unrelated and then-unexplained photoelectric effect. He won the Nobel in physics for that - not relativity - and cemented quantum theory in place, even if he never liked it. A nobody who single-handedly stamped the dividing line between classical physics and modern physics.

    <brain-exploding>

    #crank #cranks #relativity #nutter

  6. Bed rest and medication.

    Anybody else got an older family member who calls to tell you that WHEN they hit the lottery, they're going to build a compound and everyone in the family WILL come and live with them there?

    No? Okay... just checking.

    #OldPeopleOfMastodon
    #Delusional
    #Nutter

  7. "whamwhamwhamwhamwhamwhamwham If I had a gavelllllllll I'd gavel in the morninnnngggg,..." Marjorie Taylor-Greene. #politics #maga #MTG #nutter #trump

  8. @pdeboiserie @officehippy

    Looks like the team of five are going again after a lunch break, coming into the last checkpoint. I'm sure they are all going to make it before cutoff :) Guesstimate distance left 12-15km

    #ultramarathon #NorthernTraverse #trailrunning #Nutter #RunnersOfMastodon #DotWatching

  9. Looks like @officehippy has huddle up with 4-5 others to bring it home. They either have to speed it up or take it easy as I have to work and therefore can't do any #DotWatching

    Awesomesause to everyone!

    #ultramarathon #NorthernTraverse #trailrunning #Nutter #RunnersOfMastodon

  10. @jwz @rejj @mattblaze

    Exactly! I have no idea how he gets so many. It's moths to a flame. He doesn't even post about the stuff that drags pedants out of their basements, modulo the occasional one about Faraday cages and bags...

    #nutter #nutters

  11. Jan. 6 Rioter Compares Herself to Jesus After Being Sentenced
    An Idaho woman convicted of felony charges related to the Capitol attacks on Jan. 6, 2021 was sentenced to 30 months behind bars on Wednesday—and then immediately hopped on Facebook to complain about it to her followers. “I understood what Jesus felt like when he was in the garden
    newsviews.online/2023/09/14/ja
    #Uplifting #Idaho #Jan6Insurrection #Jesus #Nutter

  12. Praying Football Coach Joe Kennedy Quits, Claims Retaliation
    Kennedy at practice last week in his crucifix t-shirt

    After winning a U.S. Supreme Court case to get his coaching job back and igniting a firestorm over praying in public schools, Joe Kennedy resigned only one game into Bremerton High School’s football season.

    “The district has received Mr. Kenne
    newsviews.online/2023/09/07/pr
    #ReligionSuperstition #Nutter

  13. @flexghost YES- #Tesla's chief failure genius #NUTTER is a pathetic reprobate...
    Someone has to say it !