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Behold the froton particle, the key to the universe
« on: 2005-06-10 08:51:09 » |
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From the latest skeptic newsletter.
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/eskeptic05-06-10.html
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Isaac Newton, the father of modern physics and author of the Principia — arguably the single most sublime achievement of the human intellect—made exactly the same point some 300 years earlier when he said:
"I don’t know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
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A couple of years into the editing and publishing of Skeptic magazine, I began to regularly receive manuscripts that I filed as “theories of everything.” I later discovered that all science-magazine editors receive such manuscripts, as do prominent scientists at leading institutions. These papers are mostly attempts at constructing all-encompassing explanatory theories, almost exclusively in the physical sciences, typically claiming that Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking are wrong, and that the author’s 10-page, single-spaced typed essay, sans references, contains the secrets of the cosmos.
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Another fellow claimed:
"I have discovered the previously unknown invisible particle that fully explains light and all forms of energy. I call it the froton particle. Einstein didn’t know about the froton particle — but you will. I can’t email a drum roll, and don’t want to pontificate. Inappropriately or not, if only out of respect for Einstein and physicists as far back as Aristotle — I’ve chosen the words to introduce the unified field theory. “Behold the froton particle… the key to the universe.”"
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