To believe or not believe
February 10th 2008 07:33
Further to my post about Thane Heins, I found an example on the Web of the way scientists think - or don't think. It comes from a site called Physics Forum.
russ_watters
He's allowed his ignorance of science to destory [sic] his life. What a tragic story. I hope he gets the help he needs (hint: it isn't help from an MIT phycisist [sic] or engineer that he needs).
Anyway, we don't give an audience to crackpottery here. Perpetual motion machines are a banned topic - largely since there really isn't anything we can do to debunk the claim. He hasn't provided a detailed schematic or description of how it works -- because he doesn't know. So it is useless to speculate on which particular scientific concept that he doesn't understand is responsible for what he is seeing.
Apart from the arrogance of this response, note the ‘we don’t give an audience to crackpottery here.’ Good grief. Nor to the possibility of something outside of their experience, apparently.
For those who understand enough physics to understand what Mr Heins is talking about, there’s a video here in which he explains what's happening, as far as he sees it.
russ_watters
He's allowed his ignorance of science to destory [sic] his life. What a tragic story. I hope he gets the help he needs (hint: it isn't help from an MIT phycisist [sic] or engineer that he needs).
Anyway, we don't give an audience to crackpottery here. Perpetual motion machines are a banned topic - largely since there really isn't anything we can do to debunk the claim. He hasn't provided a detailed schematic or description of how it works -- because he doesn't know. So it is useless to speculate on which particular scientific concept that he doesn't understand is responsible for what he is seeing.
Apart from the arrogance of this response, note the ‘we don’t give an audience to crackpottery here.’ Good grief. Nor to the possibility of something outside of their experience, apparently.
For those who understand enough physics to understand what Mr Heins is talking about, there’s a video here in which he explains what's happening, as far as he sees it.
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