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Valev right or wrong? - this is the wrong venue for this debate
Valev endlessly investing time and trouble in talking to a group of
people who have almost exactly zero infuence on main stream scientific thought is utterly bizarre. Why not go down the long established route of peer reviewed publication? What are you afraid of? |
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Valev right or wrong? - this is the wrong venue for this debate
On 29 Jan, 08:18, ukastronomy
wrote: Valev endlessly investing time and trouble in talking to a group of people who have almost exactly zero infuence on main stream scientific thought is utterly bizarre. Why not go down the long established route of peer reviewed publication? What are you afraid of? I agree with you entirely. I should I feel point out that in the process of "Peer Review" one is asked to show that you have read all the relevant literature and commented on it. http://sites.google.com/site/aitrans...ome/relativity In this reference I have set out most of the relevant results in Relativity. It is not an exhaustive list by any means. PGR will accept unorthodox ideas. It accepted Marcus Hutter's contention that AI can only be defined in terms of compression for example. What it will not accept is a complete ignoring of relevant facts. How do you explain the energy loss in pulsar pairs? The explanation accepted by the Nobel committee (a Nobel prize was awarded) was that the main factor was the radiation of gravitational waves according to GTR. There are other factors like tidal friction (Valev will have to up the tidal stakes) but they are small in comparison to GTR. In fact if tidal friction were to be the main cause a brand new theory of the structure of neutron stars would be needed. In fact all we know about neutron stars goes the other way. Neutron matter is superconducting and superfluid and this will REDUCE tidal friction. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal.../316027a0.html http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/neutron.asp A slightly more popularised account. However this is a problem common to all user groups. At least Valev has never told people to "take their medication", never commented on people's sexual prowess. He has never spoken of "buggering little boys" (Rand Simberg). http://groups.google.co.uk/group/sci...a+author:Adams This is one of the most disgraceful threads around. I was told to "take my medication". What had I done? Essentially what I had done was to show a few relevant references from the "Singularity Institute" on the future. OK you can reject them, but at least know what they are. I left the group at that point as I felt that with that thread all academic respectability had been lost. A number of groups are moderated. Moderation does increase the quality of contributions, but it tends to destroy the spontaneity of repartee. I would like to propose the following. The contributions from the majority of the members of a group (all members would initially be taken on trust) would be unmoderated. Those that made a nuisance of themselves would have to submit to moderation or even be banned completely. I think all groups need vigilance sci.astro is in the category of simply needing vigilance. sci.space.policy is now simply a group for failed astronauts and the dregs of Republicanism. This could happen to any group that fails to be vigilant. Google has been less than helpful. I have reported a number of flagrant violations but no action has ever been taken. - Ian Parker |
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