Jun
13
“In my experience, when crackpots look at physics, they go after one of two things. Either they pick some piece of modern physics that makes them uncomfortable - like relativity or quantum mechanics - and they try to force some argument that their discomfort with it must mean that it’s wrong. The other big one is free energy - whether it’s perpetual motion, or vacuum energy, or browns gas - the crackpots claim that they’ve found some wonderful magical process that defies the laws of thermodynamics in order to make limitless free energy. The cranks rarely (not never, but rarely) go after the kinds of physics that we experience every day.”
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