Really? Does the American Physical Society have the abstract posted on their website?
I don't have the review requirements for the AGU meeting that these were presented at, but the ones that I can find say "Abstracts must focus on scientific results or their application. The Program Committee may decline to consider abstracts with other focus." I don't think that they would allow abstracts for a numerological proof of Jesus Christ's second coming.
I have no idea. My wife is a member, and I used to leaf through the abstract book. Their policy was not to reject abstracts unless they were libelous. They simply put all of the crank stuff into a session called 'General Physics'.
I don't have the review requirements for the AGU meeting that these were presented at, but the ones that I can find say "Abstracts must focus on scientific results or their application. The Program Committee may decline to consider abstracts with other focus." I don't think that they would allow abstracts for a numerological proof of Jesus Christ's second coming.
Possibly not, but that doesn't mean they don't have a great deal of latitude in accepting abstracts. Many societies, if space/time are not limiting, will tend to err on the side of accepting pretty much anything, letting the members of the society figure out for themselves what the trash is.