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by laudablepuss 07/10/2006, 4:27pm PDT |
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Holy fucking shit. Check out the reviews on Amazon, too.
A fictional marketing persona wrote:
***** Finally Science I Can Sink My Teeth Into, November 13, 2005
Reviewer: Brian Gould (Wilmington, DE)
Based on the information on the book's website I felt this might finally be a sensibly written science book that cut through all the abstractions and wacky theories coming from mainstream science (which, in my opinion, has become indistinguishable from pseudoscience in recent decades). Well, I was right - in spades! The plain-speaking, sensible logic I enjoyed on the website and the first free chapter continued beautifully right through to the end. Now this is how science should have been all along. We lost our way about a century ago, and this is the first time I have felt things are finally (and thankfully!) back on track. My heartfelt thanks to the author, Mark McCutcheon. I doubt I would ever have understood even the most common, everyday occurrences (gravity, magnetism, light, etc.) if I hadn't found this book. I wish I could give it more than 5 stars!
Haha, yeah, those crazy scientists with their wacky theories and abstractions. Psh, more like PSEUDOscientists! I mean, haha, right? Who's with me? And what's with all this "math"? WTF?
Meanwhile just above that one:
***xx circular reasoning, November 13, 2005
Reviewer: ROBERT REESE (EASTON, PA United States)
The author uses the following thought experiment to illustrate a difference between Expansion Theory and conventional theories of Gravity:
A tunnel is drilled completely through the earth. In conventional theory a ball dropped into that tunnel would accelerate to the earth's center and gradually slow down until it reached the earth's opposite surface, stop, and then begin to fall back down through the earth's center to its starting point, to repeat the process endlessly (discounting air resistance). In the author's thought experiment of that object falling through a tunnel to the center of the earth [Fig. 2.8, Pg. 104], Expansion Theory says that an object would seem to fall only until it reached the earth's center and then stop. That is because according to Expansion Theory that "fall" is actually the earth expanding up around the object, so when the object reaches the earth's center, where the earth's expansion is in the other direction, the apparent "fall" stops. Which theory is right? This experiment has, in principle, already been performed, for that same principle would hold true for Expansion Theory orbits. Once a body's "Expansion Theory orbit" falls to the level of the earth's core that fall or orbit would stop. The principle is the same for an object "falling" through the earth or "falling" around it--the fall would be halfway, and no farther. It follows that since true orbits exist and do not stop halfway, Expansion Theory is false. But three stars for original thinking.
Well, it's true, orbital dynamics is hard. I sympathize with the author there. Maybe he can find a book out there that could help him . . . I dunno. |
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