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To: The Comedian
If you're charging to do research, folks should get their money back. Let's just take a quick look see and determine if the "research" you've provided can shed any light on your claim that the alignment of the planets can somehow, through a "harmonic symptom of a larger underlying wave function", raise the likelihood of an earthquake.

The first dealing with nanoscale symmetry resulting from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle doesn't seem to discuss your claim.

The second I discarded after I got to this: "Whilst I am not claiming to be an seismologist or an earthquake expert..."

The third, a response to an earlier piece discussing string theory, I'm gonna have to lump with the first - nothing in the abstract about earthquakes OR the alignment of the planets. Of course, that was just the abstract, perhaps in the text we are told what happens when the Moon is in the Second House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars...

(I gotta say it's patently obvious that neither Marilyn McCoo nor Billy Davis, Jr. are actual physicists, but if they were and had listened to you, the band may have been called the Ji-huan He’s Eleven Dimensional Cantorian Spacetime Theory Quintet.)

Finally, as a working scientist I am often reminded that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. You've made the claim - now provide the proof.

66 posted on 07/12/2010 8:26:39 AM PDT by stormer
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To: stormer
If you're charging to do research, folks should get their money back.

And yet, my clients continue to contract my services over and over again. In fact, when I chose to do so, I probably made in a month what you make in a year. Such is the burden of being able to extrapolate and abstract. These are burdens that you are mercifully free from.

If you can't even start from the beginning, there's no point in me carrying you anywhere.

I would, however count on you for the answer to a single question: How's the hamster life-cycle grant market these days?


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

84 posted on 07/12/2010 10:56:40 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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