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To: Kevmo
Your problem is that you don't know when to pick your battles.

Most experiments aren't published, because they turn out to be wrong. Most experiments that contradict established theory are wrong. Almost all experiments that contradict a theory that has been around since 1892 are wrong. Why? Because the theory published in 1892 was designed to account for an existing mass of experimental data, and no experiment since then until this one has produced this large an effect.

So what is the most prudent course of action? Not to say that a theory is wrong that parallels James Clerk Maxwell's unification of electricity and magnetism, which was put on an even firmer footing by the special theory of relativity and an even firmer basis by the general theory of relativity and -- I should not need to tell you this but I will - thousands of experiments before and since. The prudent course of science is not to say those thousands of experiments are wrong and this ONE experiment is correct, but to assume, in fact, the opposite: That this experiment is a fluke, published by overzealous researchers who apparently didn't realize that if the effect claimed were really this large we would have hell to pay all over interstellar and intergalactic space.

This effect, if real, would be seen in the large structure of the universe and isn't. Because you see, even though "Experiment Trumps Theory®, Amen" Reality trumps BAD experiments.

Reality Trumps Theory®, Amen is a registered trademark of Kevmo Bogus Enterprises, LLC and is used without his permission.

63 posted on 02/20/2014 10:25:10 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: FredZarguna

If it is so incredibly, 20 orders of magnitude wrong, then show how. That isn’t too much to ask of an adam henry scientist who’s sucked off the guvmint teat his entire career. I know enough about you that we can’t ask you to stop being an a-h, but at least we can ask you to do the job that we as taxpayers subsidized you for.


82 posted on 02/21/2014 1:50:47 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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