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To: samtheman
I’ll post here what he says about it.

Yes, please do. Ping me if he can't get around to replying to you right away, okay? Too bad Freeper "Physicist" doesn't hang with us anymore. He always had interesting things to say about the latest news in physics.

77 posted on 08/26/2010 1:20:33 PM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: LibWhacker
Here's his reply. (Actually, I was wrong to say he's a physicist. He's an engineer working in display technology development but he has a strong interest in physics.)
Fascinating! Physics is SO in need of shake-up/wake up - maybe this data will help. A good part of the profession are just of a bunch of medieval monks constantly trying to rationalize away all the contradictory/anomalous evidence that keeps popping up all over. Tired of the VERY bad habit of positing "unobservables" to save their bad theories ("dark matter," "dark energy," etc.) - tired of "unprovable" but "mathematically elegant" "theories" like "string theory", never induced from any experiment!

Yay for the pesky experimentalists! Yay for the (routinely sub-caste of) applied physicists! Yay for plasma physicists!

I personally don't agree with him on dark energy/matter, though I do on string theory.

78 posted on 08/26/2010 1:27:23 PM PDT by samtheman
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