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From: PD on 22 Jan 2010 16:32
On Jan 22, 12:36 pm, Phil Bouchard <p...(a)fornux.com> wrote:
> J. Clarke wrote:
>
> > And since it contains no means by which it may be falsified, it is not
> > science.
> > Epic fail.
>
> "If it's not broken don't fix it!" -- Relativists

It's certainly not broken, that's right.
From: eric gisse on 22 Jan 2010 16:39
Phil Bouchard wrote:

> PD wrote:
>>
>> One doesn't owe a disproving to nonsense. FR has to compete with
>> prevailing theories on the metrics that theories are measured by. If
>> yours doesn't compete, it doesn't. It isn't owed a disproof.
>
> $1,000,000

Really, Phil?

Show us a bank statement.

>
>> One can't disprove God, either. That doesn't make God a viable
>> scientific theory.
>
> Great analogy but I think common sense should be the ultimate decider.

From: Phil Bouchard on 22 Jan 2010 17:33
PD wrote:

[...]

> And that's your mistake. A lot of cranks and goofballs here think that
> relativity and quantum mechanics MUST be wrong because they are in
> conflict with their common sense. Common sense does not decide, never
> has, never should. You do know how models ARE tested in science, don't
> you?

Excuses not to work like everybody else...
From: Phil Bouchard on 22 Jan 2010 17:41
eric gisse wrote:

[...]

>> This is not serious, seriously. So we fall back to that spacetime warp
>> deadlocked logic.
>
> So Phil, do you even have enough knowledge of electromagnetic theory to
> understand the paper you just dismissed out of hand? Relativity did not have
> to be invoked once to explain the phenomena.
>
> If not, why are you talking about articles you do not understand?

The *time* is warped:

"This phenomenon is caused by an interplay between the time scales
present in the pulse and the time scales present in the medium."


Doug really stuffed you with overconfidence...
From: PD on 22 Jan 2010 17:56
On Jan 22, 4:33 pm, Phil Bouchard <p...(a)fornux.com> wrote:
> PD wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > And that's your mistake. A lot of cranks and goofballs here think that
> > relativity and quantum mechanics MUST be wrong because they are in
> > conflict with their common sense. Common sense does not decide, never
> > has, never should. You do know how models ARE tested in science, don't
> > you?
>
> Excuses not to work like everybody else...

Nope. If you think other sciences use common sense to be the decider,
then you are sadly deluded.
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