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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
by 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 agoThat 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 agoAgreed, 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.