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Randomly capitalizing words is another bad sign: > With all the different courses that I teach, I began to see many common threads between the subject material

by Pyxl101 12y ago

Randomly capitalizing words is another bad sign: > With all the different courses that I teach, I began to see many common threads between the subject material of Astronomy, Physics, Meteorology and the Earth Sun relationship. I wondered about the energy flow from the Solar Winds and initially how does this influence the development of Thunderstorm activity on land and over the Ocean. http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/Background.htm http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/Background.htm When actual geniuses make breakthroughs in mathematics and physics, they usually do it with a well-written paper or book, such as: (1) "Principia Mathematica" (Newton, 1687). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Pri... (2) "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" (Maxwell, 1865). http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/155/459.full.pdf http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/155/459.full.... (3) "On the electrodynamics of moving bodies" (Einstein, 1905). https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/ (4) "Ricci flow with surgery on three-manifolds" (Perelman, 2003). http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0303109 http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0303109 It's difficult to understand why a person who is teaching and in touch with academia would not publish his theory and results thus far in a style accessible to other researchers and academics. There has been an established style and convention for how to share such ideas for over 300 years. > I have a MS in Geography, BGS Geography, AS Engineering Science and a multi-disciplinary background in Science and Engineering, design, integration and fabrication. Currently I serve as an Adjunct Professor at, the University of Nebraska at Omaha [and others]. I teach over 65 semester hours per year, in eight different subjects: [...] The ideas would be significantly more credible if expressed in a conventional, comprehensive, academic way.

bglazer 12y ago
Pares has submitted papers to journals and proposals to conventions. When he does get a response at all, he’s told his discovery is "premature." “It is so far out there, he’s not going to get funding to do it,” says Jack Kasher, a retired physics professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. “If it’s going to be done, it’s going to be done in his garage.” Before he read Pares’ paper, Kasher thought the idea was “ridiculously impossible.” Perhaps he is doing something remarkable, but I'll reserve judgement until he demonstrates something remarkable.
- Pyxl101 12y ago
  That sounds like an excuse to me. He can post his paper on his website or on Arxiv. If the content of the paper is like his design drawings for his fusion reactor, though, "premature" is not an unfair word. I'd guess the submission contains a lot of informally-described material that is not rigorous, and does not meet the reader's expectations of a scientific paper. Take a look at his material on fusion, and in particular his design diagram for a fusion reactor: http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/WEFiles/Image/WEImage/6005a0d5DEFAULT.jpg http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/WEFiles/Image/WEImage/... (from http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/Future/Fusion.htm http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/Future/Fusion.htm). Here are some comments from another garage experimenter and physicist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815059 Perhaps he has discovered something interesting. Not all scientists in history have known what they discovered, or known how to explain what they found. I will reserve final judgment until I see more details, but preliminary judgment does not look good.
  - bglazer 12y ago
    Agreed, I don't hold any hope for this, but I also don't have the expertise to honestly judge it. Makes for a nice local news story though, I just wish they'd have taken a slightly more critical look. His ideas are that familiar mix of a few catchy pop-science ideas (fractals and Alcubierre drives) and pseduo-science (Bermuda Triangle), that's typically a dead giveaway for a crackpot.

by Pyxl101 12y ago

bglazer 12y ago

Pares has submitted papers to journals and proposals to conventions. When he does get a response at all, he’s told his discovery is "premature." “It is so far out there, he’s not going to get funding to do it,” says Jack Kasher, a retired physics professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. “If it’s going to be done, it’s going to be done in his garage.” Before he read Pares’ paper, Kasher thought the idea was “ridiculously impossible.” Perhaps he is doing something remarkable, but I'll reserve judgement until he demonstrates something remarkable.

Pyxl101 12y ago
That sounds like an excuse to me. He can post his paper on his website or on Arxiv. If the content of the paper is like his design drawings for his fusion reactor, though, "premature" is not an unfair word. I'd guess the submission contains a lot of informally-described material that is not rigorous, and does not meet the reader's expectations of a scientific paper. Take a look at his material on fusion, and in particular his design diagram for a fusion reactor: http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/WEFiles/Image/WEImage/6005a0d5DEFAULT.jpg http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/WEFiles/Image/WEImage/... (from http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/Future/Fusion.htm http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/Future/Fusion.htm). Here are some comments from another garage experimenter and physicist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815059 Perhaps he has discovered something interesting. Not all scientists in history have known what they discovered, or known how to explain what they found. I will reserve final judgment until I see more details, but preliminary judgment does not look good.
- bglazer 12y ago
  Agreed, I don't hold any hope for this, but I also don't have the expertise to honestly judge it. Makes for a nice local news story though, I just wish they'd have taken a slightly more critical look. His ideas are that familiar mix of a few catchy pop-science ideas (fractals and Alcubierre drives) and pseduo-science (Bermuda Triangle), that's typically a dead giveaway for a crackpot.