[muawiyah]

Hardly the case, but I was on top of this wave thing back when the proponents were saying they had the math to prove they exist, and the statistical evidence to demonstrate they were a serious hazard to shipping.

That's before cold fusion.

This latest bit of math looks just as intriguing ~ too many people imagine you can pile up vast mountains of water and not have some real world quantum effects take place right before your eyes ~ like even bigger waves without benefit of overlaps!

Concerning scientific proof, math is the proof. Pictures can be faked easily by 6th graders these days. You find a grade school kid faking math, now you've got something eh!

[dinodino]

This link shows how the officers of the Ramapo triangulated the wave height. Their report is, AFAIK, the first 100% credible and documented scientific observation of extremely large waves:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/watwav.html