On Jul 13, 2007, at 10:16 PM, William Beaty wrote:
I've come to see that there is one big thing that ruins these
fields of
amateur research. That thing is SECRECY. Every time amateurs think
they've stumbled across something important, they go silent and
treat
their discovery as a Big Important Secret which must be preserved
at all
costs from the many enemies who want to steal it. This is
garbage! It is
a trap which leads to paranoid megalomania. At the same time, it
wrecks
their discovery by burying it. True, there are often business
reasons to
keep back proprietary info, but the majority of "weird science"
discoveries are not kept secret for this reason. They are kept
secret
because of shameful human psychology: because the inventors' desire
attention, because they need to control, and because they need to be
important, to gain fame and accolades, etc. I can say such things
because I too have suffered from this kind of "inventor's
disease." I
solved the problem by posting my inventions on internet. If a
single
inventor discovers something wonderful, it does no good at all for
mankind. It is not really a discovery at all, it's an ego trip.
Only if
an inventor discovers something wonderful and then STARTS SELLING
PRODUCTS, or better yet, TELLS EVERYONE THE SECRET, then does it
make
the world a better place.
This only applies to beneficial things. There are some discoveries so
unimaginably horrific they should never see the light of day.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
