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a brief perusal sets off my crank alarms That's what I was going to say, too. And I got more convinced the further down I got. The weird, convoluted wording wa
by lutorm 15y ago
a brief perusal sets off my crank alarms
That's what I was going to say, too. And I got more convinced the further down I got. The weird, convoluted wording was a big tipoff. And then this sealed it:
When a star explodes and its mass is combusted into radiation, conservation requires that the number of quanta stays the same, whether in the form of matter or radiation.
There is no conservation law limiting the number of photons. This is obviously observed any time you turn on a light bulb.
- splat 15y agoIf I were being charitable I might think that he was referring to conservation of baryon number or lepton number...but all other indicators point to him not knowing what he's talking about. I'm actually pretty surprised that this paper was accepted. MNRAS is a fairly prestigious journal.
- lutorm 15y agoThat would take a significant amount of charitability (?) since he says ...whether in the form of matter or radiation