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12-05-2006, 02:14 PM
Baez shows Brian Greene is a Crackpot
Read full story at: kuro5hin.org/story/2006/10/31/161746/39
<LI value=30>30 points for suggesting that Einstein, in his later years, was groping his way towards the ideas you now advocate.
"Even on his deathbed [Einstein] scribbled equations in the desperate but fading hope that the theory would finally materialize. It didn't." <LI value=34>40 points for claiming that the "scientific establishment" is engaged in a "conspiracy" to prevent your work from gaining its well-deserved fame, or suchlike. "Finally, some have argued that if, after decades of research involving thousands of scientists, the theory is still a work in progress, it's time to give up." (One might ask whether this question gets a pass, too, since such opinions have in fact been expressed by reputable people.)
50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no concrete testable predictions. "To be sure, no one successful experiment would establish that string theory is right, but neither would the failure of all such experiments prove the theory wrong."
Certainly, Dr. Greene has been been working for a long time (10) on a paradigm shift (10), towards which Einstein struggled on his deathbed (30). For his effort, his theory has no equations (10) and no tests (50). With the starting credit, that much makes 105 points.
Read full story at: kuro5hin.org/story/2006/10/31/161746/39
Read full story at: kuro5hin.org/story/2006/10/31/161746/39
<LI value=30>30 points for suggesting that Einstein, in his later years, was groping his way towards the ideas you now advocate.
"Even on his deathbed [Einstein] scribbled equations in the desperate but fading hope that the theory would finally materialize. It didn't." <LI value=34>40 points for claiming that the "scientific establishment" is engaged in a "conspiracy" to prevent your work from gaining its well-deserved fame, or suchlike. "Finally, some have argued that if, after decades of research involving thousands of scientists, the theory is still a work in progress, it's time to give up." (One might ask whether this question gets a pass, too, since such opinions have in fact been expressed by reputable people.)
50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no concrete testable predictions. "To be sure, no one successful experiment would establish that string theory is right, but neither would the failure of all such experiments prove the theory wrong."
Certainly, Dr. Greene has been been working for a long time (10) on a paradigm shift (10), towards which Einstein struggled on his deathbed (30). For his effort, his theory has no equations (10) and no tests (50). With the starting credit, that much makes 105 points.
Read full story at: kuro5hin.org/story/2006/10/31/161746/39