I believe the thrust of the arguments of his peers described in the article is that his idea be given a fair hearing. Maybe we are talking here about something more in keeping with a phenomenon measured in billions of years rather than mere human-thousands. Of course, I haven't seen the maths (and mightn't understand them if I did :-), so he could be pulling the idea out of his proverbial a***. But it does lead one to wonder...
Brent Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com> writes: >To this "genius", Brent, I ask this. > >Why, in the entirety of human history, hasn't there been a "bad hair >day", when gravity kicks out and sends thousands soaring off into space? > >Maybe, MAYBE, in a hundred years or so, something may walk in the door to >support this hare-brained chicanery. I haven't been involved in the >physics community for close to fifteen years, and it's stuff like this >that makes me happy that I estranged myself. > >On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:41 PM, brent wodehouse <[ >mailto:brent_wodeho...@thefence.us ]brent_wodeho...@thefence.us> wrote: > > > >Ê > > >Yes. The 'bad hair day' theory of gravity. > >'It goes something like this: your hair frizzles in the heat and humidity, >because there are more ways for your hair to be curled than to be >straight, and nature likes options. So it takes a force to pull hair >straight and eliminate natureÕs options. Forget curved space or the spooky >attraction at a distance described by Isaac NewtonÕs equations well enough >to let us navigate the rings of Saturn, the force we call gravity is >simply a byproduct of natureÕs propensity to maximize disorder.' > >From: [ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13gravity.html?src=mv >]http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13gravity.html?src=mv > >Brent > > > > >[ mailto:martinbaxter7%40gmail.com ]martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote: > >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Martin Baxter <[ mailto:martin.baxter.013%40gmail.com >]martin.baxter....@gmail.com> >>Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:54 PM >>Subject: Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist >>To: [ mailto:martinbaxter7%40gmail.com ]martinbaxt...@gmail.com >> >> >>Even as I post this, I feel compelled to say that this is a post from a >>new Siffy-powered site and that, IMO, that association renders this and >>all other things reported that as null and void, being too far divorced >>from reality... >> >>========================================================================================================== >> >>Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist > >>Eccentric but brilliant physicist claims gravity doesn't exist >>Stephen Hawking experiences weightlessness in a jet >>7Share >> >>I know that something is keeping me from floating off as I type away at >>this keyboard, but thanks to Erik Verlinde, a string theorist and >>professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, I no longer know >>what. But I'm not the only one feeling a little, well, adrift right now. >> >>According to an article in the NY Times, "Some of the best physicists in >>the world say they don't understand Dr. Verlinde's paper." Which makes us >>feel a little better that we don't either. >> >>That paper, "On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton," claims >>that gravity is an illusion. >> >> >>More at: [ http://blastr.com/2010/07/eccentric-but-brilliant-p.php >]http://blastr.com/2010/07/eccentric-but-brilliant-p.php >> >> >>-- >>"Between getsumei no michi and the Zero...no better place to live." >> >>(About little moments of happiness) "If this isn't nice, I don't know >>what is." -- Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" >> > > > > > > > > > > > >-- >"If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody >hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > >[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
