For the alternative theorists:

Aqueous Id

As an alternative theorist
You may call yourself that, but it's a misnomer. An alternative theory is a plausible theory which is not as congruent with all of the relevant science as the adopted theory. In order to call yourself a theorist, you would need to have credentials in physics. From what I've read of your posts, you're simply someone who never got very far in your education. That excludes you from the class of people properly called "theorists".

As far as I can tell you have some unexplained bias against science in general, but particularly in relatively advanced topics of physics. That makes you come across merely as a crank.

I have written my own theories,
You mean wild ideas. Theories don't come from the imagination. They are the explanations given after careful consideration of all the evidence. They have a purpose--to fill a gap in human knowledge and understanding, usu. concerning some basic principle consistently observed in Nature.

a book of some 400 pages long of totally unique theory which can be viewed at pantheory.com.
Uniqueness is useless, as is length. All that's needed is a plausible chain of logic establishing that an explanation is needed (a hole in knowledge exists) followed by a careful and thorough treatment of the evidence and the logic leading to the new explanation. To even begin to do this requires years of basic skill development followed by years of research (employing those skills). Without that, you have no basis for claiming anything.

The theories involve many of their own equations including those of cosmological distances, brightness and related measurements which are very different from mainstream equations and theoretical models.
Then they're invariably wrong. To arrive at a valid theory you have to have a valid open question that demands an answer. Without that, there is no premise for theorizing. Nature isn't incidental to theory. It's the opening set of problems which describe the unknown, from which the theory evolves, after careful consideration of all of the relevant evidence. Based on your posts, you couldn't even pass the freshman exams. That puts you about 10 years away from honestly calling yourself a theorist, and then only by devoting yourself to the work, honing your skills, and familiarizing yourself with hundreds of relevant papers on the topics at hand.

Most of the things you have said are certainly mainstream theory,
Don't confuse my statements on first principles as anything even related to theory.

but I think there are better explanations for most everything in modern physics.
You can't possibly know what is better without mastering the subject matter, usu. at the doctoral level.

For instance my last theoretical paper, link below, was contrary to the dark energy hypothesis and the Big Bang model.
That's not a theory. It's just an opinion. And an ill-advised one. As long as you evade the empirical data, even your opinions are doomed.

With others, I expect to publish my next paper in late 2014, which will explain my theory of gravity which is contrary to both General Relativity and dark matter.
That sounds ridiculously ignorant of freshman level physics.

It will contain gravitational formulations confirmed by observations,
People like you always state this backwards. Observation comes first, then the issues, apparent inconsistencies or questions raised from the observation. The process of developing a theory is the process of resolving those open issues, or at least chipping away at them. It's impossible to do that without an advanced degree (usu. a PhD) in the subject matter. So it makes no sense to me why folks like you feel like you can skip roughly 10 grade levels (I'm assuming you have about a 7th grade proficiency in science) -- and promote yourself to the level of an expert, without actually ever passing a freshman physics exam. That's the hallmark of a crank, not a theorist.

and more like MOND gravity but with a stronger theoretical basis.
Not possible. You can't be better at anything without actually performing the work. How or why you folks think physics is a game to beat makes no sense to me. You're only hurting yourselves by depriving yourselves of an education in the field.
 
because he WAS a patent clerk.
his teachers even said he wasn't any good at math.
Wrong and wrong. Those are just popular crackpot myths, intended to de-value his intellect in order to pump-up their own. Einstein was a technical patent examiner. Calling him a "clerk" is meant to imply a purely administrative job with no technical aspect.

And the not good at math thing, beyond jokes Einstein made, isn't something I can prove a negative of. The wiki just mentions his college entrance exams, which he took early and excelled in physics and math.
 
And the not good at math thing, beyond jokes Einstein made, isn't something I can prove a negative of. The wiki just mentions his college entrance exams, which he took early and excelled in physics and math.
I'll track down a source tomorrow, but as I recall this came about as a misunderstanding of his results. Part way through his academic career, one of the school Einstein attended changed the way the graded so that instead of 1 being a high score, 1 was a low score - or some such, my memory is really sketchy on this.
 
because he WAS a patent clerk.
his teachers even said he wasn't any good at math.

He was a young man with a Physics degree working in the patent office.

Einstein
From the article:

Alas, Einstein's childhood offers history many savory ironies, but [being no good at math] is not one of them. In 1935, a rabbi in Princeton showed him a clipping of the Ripley's column with the headline "Greatest living mathematician failed in mathematics." Einstein laughed. "I never failed in mathematics," he replied, correctly. "Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus." In primary school, he was at the top of his class and "far above the school requirements" in math. By age 12, his sister recalled, "he already had a predilection for solving complicated problems in applied arithmetic," and he decided to see if he could jump ahead by learning geometry and algebra on his own. His parents bought him the textbooks in advance so that he could master them over summer vacation. Not only did he learn the proofs in the books, he also tackled the new theories by trying to prove them on his own. He even came up on his own with a way to prove the Pythagorean theory.
 
Nice anecdote, Origin. You see this keen fluency with math in his writings. To think he went from "only a patent clerk" to the author of On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies in only two years speaks to the fact that his humble job simply had nothing to do with his math and science proficiency, but more to do with the economy and the scarcity of work for a person of his skill set. And in fact his examination of telegraph patents (based on his acumen of electrical systems) stimulated a lot of his ideas concerning the time of transmission (speed of light), just as the differences in time zones between stations dovetailed with ideas about relativity that were dawning on scientists and mathematicians of that era. This is probably also why the train and platform scenarios appear in his thought experiments. And you're right about him being a child prodigy. In fact he was only 14 or 15 when he composed an essay concerning the implications of electromagnetism for ether. He probably got some of the information from his father who was a scientist, but it seems that by that age he was familiar with both Maxwell's equations, the Michelson-Morley experiment, the background of both sets of information, and the pressing questions of the day concerning the invariance of the speed of light. Obviously times were different, but by today's standards he'd probably be considered a child genius from that paper alone.
 
Nice anecdote, Origin. You see this keen fluency with math in his writings. To think he went from "only a patent clerk" to the author of On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies in only two years speaks to the fact that his humble job simply had nothing to do with his math and science proficiency, but more to do with the economy and the scarcity of work for a person of his skill set. And in fact his examination of telegraph patents (based on his acumen of electrical systems) stimulated a lot of his ideas concerning the time of transmission (speed of light), just as the differences in time zones between stations dovetailed with ideas about relativity that were dawning on scientists and mathematicians of that era. This is probably also why the train and platform scenarios appear in his thought experiments. And you're right about him being a child prodigy. In fact he was only 14 or 15 when he composed an essay concerning the implications of electromagnetism for ether. He probably got some of the information from his father who was a scientist, but it seems that by that age he was familiar with both Maxwell's equations, the Michelson-Morley experiment, the background of both sets of information, and the pressing questions of the day concerning the invariance of the speed of light. Obviously times were different, but by today's standards he'd probably be considered a child genius from that paper alone.

Yeah, but the story of the stupid kid who becomes the greatest modern scientist is just so awesome!! It's just not fair that reality has to insert itself and ruin such a fun story.

Besides, that fantasy story also allows us to daydream that one day we will wake up and *POOF* we're a genius. Hooray!:rolleyes:
 
Re the above article...
Have they gone a bit over the top? Or does the possibility really exist....

Seeyas all, things to do, places to see!!!



The reason I posted the article in question, was to gauge whether "New Scientist" had gone over the top in regards to the BICEP2 findings.
I apologise to the genuine folk interested in the science and the obvious poor and less then factual part of the article re the great man.
Poor journalism obviously, as is sometimes prevalent in scientific articles written by non scientific journalists for science mags.
 
Yeah, but the story of the stupid kid who becomes the greatest modern scientist is just so awesome!! It's just not fair that reality has to insert itself and ruin such a fun story.

Besides, that fantasy story also allows us to daydream that one day we will wake up and *POOF* we're a genius. Hooray!:rolleyes:



We have three here all with ToE's just waiting to be published! :rolleyes:
 
Doctrine , at the time , will always be more important than truth


The doctrine or model at any particular time, is as close to the truth as we are able to get at that time.
That's the definition of a scientific theory and open for change, modification or invalidation as observations are extended.
But of course you already know that.
 
The doctrine or model at any particular time, is as close to the truth as we are able to get at that time.
That's the definition of a scientific theory and open for change, modification or invalidation as observations are extended.
But of course you already know that.

And so do you
 
The doctrine or model at any particular time, is as close to the truth as we are able to get at that time.
actually, when we are dealing with things we do not have direct evidence of, "the doctrine or model" is the best explanation of said phenomenon and might be nowhere near the truth.
 
actually, when we are dealing with things we do not have direct evidence of, "the doctrine or model" is the best explanation of said phenomenon and might be nowhere near the truth.

What things have you in mind?
Scientific theories gain more certainty as more observational and experimental evidence are found that keeps supporting them. But it only needs one observation to invalidate or falsify that model.
That's why the scientific method and peer review are self correcting and responsible for how far we have come.
And that's why the BB, SR, and GR are near the top of that list and as such will almost certainly be encompassed in any future QGT or validated model.
 
What things have you in mind?

If you look at particle collider data being used to define the substructures of matter, these experiment are performed at high magnetic energy but low gravitational pressures. All chemical observational data does not show a one size fits all phases, but rather materials show phase diagrams as a function of pressure and temperature.

Below is a simplified phase diagram of water. Since we use high magnetic energy but low gravitational based pressure, we are somewhere analogous to a place in the pink area at the bottom of the phase diagram. If we ran these same tests in a neutron star, we would get other phases in the yellow or blue areas. The burden of proof is on the traditions. They need to show phase diagrams, which applies to matter at the chemical level, does not apply to physics data, even though chemical matter is made up of sub particle matter interacting at the chemical level.

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That's total nonsense, wellwisher: at the the energies present in particle colliders, there are no phases - heck, there are no molecules and therefore no chemicals! - and the effects of gravity are negligible. Worse, even if pressure did matter, gravity isn't the only way to generate pressure!
 
If you look at particle collider data being used to define the substructures of matter, these experiment are performed at high magnetic energy but low gravitational pressures. All chemical observational data does not show a one size fits all phases, but rather materials show phase diagrams as a function of pressure and temperature.

Below is a simplified phase diagram of water. Since we use high magnetic energy but low gravitational based pressure, we are somewhere analogous to a place in the pink area at the bottom of the phase diagram. If we ran these same tests in a neutron star, we would get other phases in the yellow or blue areas. The burden of proof is on the traditions. They need to show phase diagrams, which applies to matter at the chemical level, does not apply to physics data, even though chemical matter is made up of sub particle matter interacting at the chemical level.

That is a load of inane gobblydook......and really, I'm being kind!
 
What things have you in mind?
evolution and the big bang for starters.
Scientific theories gain more certainty as more observational and experimental evidence are found that keeps supporting them. But it only needs one observation to invalidate or falsify that model.
yes, that's the way it's supposed to work.
That's why the scientific method and peer review are self correcting and responsible for how far we have come.
And that's why the BB, SR, and GR are near the top of that list and as such will almost certainly be encompassed in any future QGT or validated model.
the only thing you and i can do in regards to the items i listed is to appeal to authority, which in itself is a logical fallacy.
 
evolution and the big bang for starters.

yes, that's the way it's supposed to work.

Evolution and the BB are those theories I [and others] see as near certain.
In my opinion, besides the more direct evidence that supports the BB, the biggest thing it has supporting it, is how it fits in perfectly with SR and GR.
And I certainly reject all this conspiracy crap re the scientific method and peer review.



the only thing you and i can do in regards to the items i listed is to appeal to authority, which in itself is a logical fallacy.


I see nothing wrong in any appeal to authority, as long as that authority is qualified in the discipline that one is appealing about. :shrug:
 
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