Bad Physics

John K Clark (johnkc@well.com)
Sun, 31 May 1998 21:42:43 -0700 (PDT)


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Tony Hollick latest post is, as usual, full of errors, I list a few of them
below but I only glanced at it so I don't claim it's anywhere near complete.

>All this [ Heisenberg's] 'observationalist' stuff is positivist old
>hat and can be demolished quite readily. We can _retrodictively
>correct_ the observation results.

No you can not, not readily and not at all

>>Planck's constant is constant

>Wake up man -- it's a ratio!

Could you please explain why a ratio can not be a constant.

>Not [the speed of light is constant] according to Richard Feynman
>in Quantum Electrodynamics.

Dead wrong, Richard Feynman never said anything that stupid in his life.

>Not according to observation.

A statement without a particle of fact.

>Neither Special nor General Relativity have given science or
>technology anything it didn't have anyway.

Spectacularly wrong.

Tony says a lot more stuff but I lost interest, correcting his other bloopers
I will leave as a exercise for the reader.

John K Clark johnkc@well.com

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