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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.
Has anyone heard of this guy, before?
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6th March 2022, 04:18 AM | #2 |
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6th March 2022, 06:23 AM | #3 |
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“They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
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The social illusion reigns to-day upon all the heaped-up ruins of the past, and to it belongs the future. The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd, 1895 (from the French) |
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6th March 2022, 08:48 AM | #4 |
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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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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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6th March 2022, 09:05 AM | #7 |
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"Reality is what's left when you cease to believe." Philip K. Dick |
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6th March 2022, 09:07 AM | #8 |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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6th March 2022, 09:33 AM | #9 | ||||||
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Youtuber Planarwalk has done a couple of videos on this poor fellow:
Planarwalk describes Cheese's "work" as "fractally wrong" which is very accurate IMHO. Fred |
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As did SciManDan:
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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... |
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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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? |
6th March 2022, 02:14 PM | #14 |
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6th March 2022, 02:34 PM | #15 |
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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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6th March 2022, 02:58 PM | #16 |
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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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6th March 2022, 09:47 PM | #17 |
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"Such reports are usually based on the sighting of something the sighters cannot explain and that they (or someone else on their behalf) explain as representing an interstellar spaceship-often by saying "But what else can it be?" as though thier own ignorance is a decisive factor." Isaac Asimov |
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7th March 2022, 08:32 AM | #18 |
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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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7th March 2022, 08:45 AM | #19 |
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7th March 2022, 09:04 AM | #20 |
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7th March 2022, 09:13 AM | #21 |
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Einstein is wrong. Math is Wrong. Everything is wrong. This Man Sets Us Straight.
Hellbound’s rule #47: whenever someone starts a comment with anything like “As the smartest person in the room, I think…”, what follows will be something amazingly stupid.
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7th March 2022, 10:54 AM | #22 |
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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. |
7th March 2022, 11:39 AM | #23 |
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7th March 2022, 11:50 AM | #24 |
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7th March 2022, 12:04 PM | #25 |
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"Reality is what's left when you cease to believe." Philip K. Dick |
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7th March 2022, 03:02 PM | #26 |
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Wow! Thanks to Mr. Cheese, I finally understand how magnets work!
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7th March 2022, 03:17 PM | #27 |
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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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