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Old 6th March 2022, 12:34 AM   #1
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Einstein is wrong. Math is Wrong. Everything is wrong. This Man Sets Us Straight.

WARNING!!!!! Anyone with an allergy to high amounts of dumdumium needs to be aware of its use in copious amounts. Proceed with caution.

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Has anyone heard of this guy, before?

Edited by zooterkin:  Fixed the youtube link. The 'yt' tags don't work with a time offset.
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Old 6th March 2022, 04:18 AM   #2
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This chap - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-ch...per-4a9238119/


Seems entirely stable...
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Old 6th March 2022, 06:23 AM   #3
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Old 6th March 2022, 08:48 AM   #4
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This is him here:

https://currnt.com/@Nigel_CHEESE

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I am me, I do not pretend to be anyone else, I do what I do and I do it well. Having an I.Q. of 207 with Asperger's syndrome, can at times leave me feeling very isolated. So if I'm having a bad day, I apologize in advance, if I am having a good day then you are in for the ride of your life. You are all invited to read a section from the last page of my book:
"What can you do when you have an I.Q. of 207 and Asperger’s syndrome? There is nothing more I can do; I have gone from zero to infinity in every direction, (and back); I’ve have taken you on a complete tour of rim of the Universe showing that infinity is only part of it; I’ve created matter from nothing, and jumped across space at a speed that far exceeds the poultry speed of light.

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"Mostly harmless".
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Old 6th March 2022, 09:00 AM   #5
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Wow. I've never, in my life, run across as much nonsense spouted in a single hour.
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Old 6th March 2022, 09:01 AM   #6
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"Poultry speed of light", eh? Imagine how fast the buggers would go if they had decent wings...
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Old 6th March 2022, 09:05 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Carrot Flower King View Post
"Poultry speed of light", eh? Imagine how fast the buggers would go if they had decent wings...
I was going to call him out on that but, all in all, it just did not seem fair so I chickened out
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Old 6th March 2022, 09:07 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Carrot Flower King View Post
"Poultry speed of light", eh? Imagine how fast the buggers would go if they had decent wings...
Or an pneumatic cannon....
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Old 6th March 2022, 09:33 AM   #9
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Youtuber Planarwalk has done a couple of videos on this poor fellow:
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Planarwalk describes Cheese's "work" as "fractally wrong" which is very accurate IMHO.

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Old 6th March 2022, 09:45 AM   #10
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As did SciManDan:
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Old 6th March 2022, 11:34 AM   #11
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Amazingly cringeworthy. He could run the world if only he could harness the power of his audience's toes curling.

The thing that surprised me was how shallow his grasp of maths and science are. I had expected to be bamboozled with complex nonsense but this stuff was just trivially wrong. He seems to have a well-rehearsed fantasy story about how he amazed and dumbfounded all the senior people he clearly resents. It's no more than pub-bore level Walter Mitty stuff from a man weighed down by the chip on his shoulder, which is rather too sad to be properly funny.

If you were impressed by his adding 1 magnet to 1 magnet to get 1 magnet, just wait till you see what I get when I have only 1 stick but then by the magic of snapping it in half...
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Old 6th March 2022, 12:24 PM   #12
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Well, everything that has a positive also has a negative, like the temperature in his fridge, and so there must also be a negative IQ, and that means that this chap is at his smartest when he displays IQ = 0!
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Old 6th March 2022, 12:43 PM   #13
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Again the hate for both Einstein and mathematics prevalent in most fringe 'science'.

I can understand maths, that is difficult to grasp once you go beyond basic high school. But why the fixation on Einstein?
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Old 6th March 2022, 02:14 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Nowhere Man View Post
Planarwalk describes Cheese's "work" as "fractally wrong" which is very accurate IMHO.

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Yep. It was Planarwalk's video that first introduced me to this guy. I am still somewhat waffling between him being genuine, or just a new troll variant.
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Old 6th March 2022, 02:34 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Lukraak_Sisser View Post
Again the hate for both Einstein and mathematics prevalent in most fringe 'science'.

I can understand maths, that is difficult to grasp once you go beyond basic high school. But why the fixation on Einstein?
I suppose it is because of the high regard his name elicits in almost every facet of math and physics. These narcissists believe by belittling Einstein, it raises their own profile above his level, and makes them worthy of even superior accolades. Of course, they are completely oblivious to the fact that exactly the opposite effect occurs when their shenanigans are exposed.
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Old 6th March 2022, 02:58 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Lukraak_Sisser View Post
Again the hate for both Einstein and mathematics prevalent in most fringe 'science'.

I can understand maths, that is difficult to grasp once you go beyond basic high school. But why the fixation on Einstein?
With this particular guy, the maths doesn't go anywhere near high school level. I'm pretty sure Einstein only becomes the target because he's heard of him. This sad case isn't one lone voice against science, it's one lone voice against authority figures he resents and a freewheeling fantasy where he imagines having defeated them with his mighty intellect.
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Old 6th March 2022, 09:47 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Blue Mountain View Post
“They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
Carl Sagan.

’Nuff said.
Who ever laughed at Bozo?
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And by the way ...

Speaking of well established science being so very wrong, does anyone else recall how "The Theory of Relativity will begin to fall apart in 2016/2017"?
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Originally Posted by Jack by the hedge View Post
With this particular guy, the maths doesn't go anywhere near high school level. I'm pretty sure Einstein only becomes the target because he's heard of him. This sad case isn't one lone voice against science, it's one lone voice against authority figures he resents and a freewheeling fantasy where he imagines having defeated them with his mighty intellect.
I presume his thoughts are so out of kilter because of his health issue.
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Old 7th March 2022, 09:04 AM   #20
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I presume his thoughts are so out of kilter because of his health issue.
If you add "mental" to that, I agree with you. And, as I said, "mostly harmless".
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Einstein is wrong. Math is Wrong. Everything is wrong. This Man Sets Us Straight.

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He ticks a couple of the typical crank boxes:

1. Boasting about your IQ, especially claiming an IQ that is well above what any valid IQ test can actually measure.

2. Having stories about how they stumped scientists or professors or academics with their simple questions and thought experiments.
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And by the way ...

Speaking of well established science being so very wrong, does anyone else recall how "The Theory of Relativity will begin to fall apart in 2016/2017"?
Well it did and we went back in time to 2011 but the media is hiding it from us.
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I was going to call him out on that but, all in all, it just did not seem fair so I chickened out
That joke was fowl.
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Originally Posted by P.J. Denyer View Post
That joke was fowl.
If you keep egging me on, I'll hatch some more.
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Wow! Thanks to Mr. Cheese, I finally understand how magnets work!
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Silly sod claims he baffled a whole group of Navy officers while he was just an "erk", presumably a naval rating. I suspect he was discharged as mentally unfit for service, got bitter and twisted, and this is how his revenge plays out in his head now. That, or he is some two-pint pub waffler who thinks he is good at bull ****. Sectionable.
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