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If he hasn’t published any peer-reviewed material describing "The Pais Effect" then I default to kook. +1 kook points for declaring a new fundamental property o
by pbourke 6y ago
If he hasn’t published any peer-reviewed material describing "The Pais Effect" then I default to kook. +1 kook points for declaring a new fundamental property of nature and naming it after oneself.
- TrainedMonkey 6y agoWould any peer reviewed journals accept this? Does not mean that this is wrong, but it's a pretty good signal.
- lumost 6y agoJudging from the above quotes, there wouldn't be anything substantial to peer-review. One does not propose a different set of principals governing the universe without both proving that the these principals reflect previous theories in all applicable energy regimes ( the correspondence principal ) and predicts new physics. The above quotes bear no practical relation to existing physics. What's claimed here is that he developed such a physical theory, an experimental apparatus which detects affects from this theory and developed a workable device which leverages those affects to achieve ground breaking propulsive effects.
- Tossrock 6y agoSometimes known as the Crackpot Index, wherein naming a new effect after oneself is worth 20 points: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
- de_nied 6y agoIf someone has the time, they should make a more general version of this and post it to HN.