Comments on: Doing It Wrong https://briankoberlein.com/2017/02/21/doing-it-wrong/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Vincent Hobeïka https://briankoberlein.com/2017/02/21/doing-it-wrong/#comment-5286 Wed, 17 May 2017 15:24:45 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6478#comment-5286 Thanks for this article. It is nice to have some enlightened vision regarding all this. I am not an astrophysicist nor a quantum theory guru, just some guy who loves science and the universe. I stumble upon Mc Culloch blog and it is sure quite thrilling to read some of his articles. Yet a lot of terms that the majority of readers can’t understand properly are thrown: Quantum vaccum, Unruh radiation, Quantised inertia, Casimir effect etc… I then started to read the arxiv papers regarding galaxy rotations. A lot of papers have been published and they deal with known anomalies that one can encounter on the web (sling shots anomalies etc…). So it is easy to be convinced that this guy may have something…

So I just want to thank you to have taken the time to write your article. When I typed “quantised inertia” on google I only find your article as a counter to all the articles of McCulloch.

I don’t say McCulloch is wrong or you are (yet my opinion is now largely in favor of one of both of you) because I am not fitted enough regarding these domains to say so. Yet I love the fact that this article reminds to be cautious. We should not blindly believe big announcements with weird words we don’t understand (especially when there are words with “quant” as a radical), otherwise it’s a kind of fanatic enrollment which is really far from what I try to find out: how things works and what can we do with them.
Moreover I still have some hopes for the EmDrive. But “quantised inertia” seems not the right theory to explain how this device “may” work. And yet I am still waiting for more obvious evidence that it does really work. Hoping that the X37-B and Tiangong experiments will bring more light in the future about this.

So thanks again and keep up the good work. I am happy to have discovered your blog which seems really interesting in many ways.
Best regards

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By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2017/02/21/doing-it-wrong/#comment-5041 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:01:31 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6478#comment-5041 MOND, STVG, NGT, MSTG, emergent gravity, plasma cosmology, electric universe models, etc. Just google “alternatives to dark matter” and take your pick.

The peer reviewed paper on the EM Drive admits the results are not conclusive. I wrote a somewhat positive review of the work, but others have been much less kind. It’s clear that even this peer reviewed article doesn’t demonstrate the effect conclusively.

Some work on string theory is valid. As a mathematical tool it can be quite useful. However folks who go around saying quantum objects ARE strings, or that it’s the only valid theory for physics are straying away from science.

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By: Paul https://briankoberlein.com/2017/02/21/doing-it-wrong/#comment-5039 Wed, 22 Feb 2017 21:10:10 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6478#comment-5039 Hi Brian. What exactly are these “dozen other speculative models” which explain the galaxy rotation curves? Do you have 12 publications or links to them? Also when you mention that the EmDrive results can’t be distinguished from background noise, the link you supply never states anything like that. There is one passing statement saying people might try to find other unaccounted for effects, but as far as I know these explanations have not been concretely established. Can you supply any information which statistically shows the measurements were within measurement noise? I would have thought the peer review may have caught that. Finally, if you find this kind of paper is science done wrong, then what have been your feelings about the massive amounts of time and money spent on String Theory? Is String Theory science done correctly?

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By: Toffeenose https://briankoberlein.com/2017/02/21/doing-it-wrong/#comment-5038 Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:21:17 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6478#comment-5038 Brian, have you questioned any of his specific analyses and claims on his website? I have, and he didn’t respond…..

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By: Mike Wallace https://briankoberlein.com/2017/02/21/doing-it-wrong/#comment-5037 Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:54:52 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6478#comment-5037 “Because once you allow yourself to ignore basic physics in your theory, all sorts of phenomena can be explained.” That line is gold

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By: Tim Spellman https://briankoberlein.com/2017/02/21/doing-it-wrong/#comment-5035 Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:08:47 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6478#comment-5035 > scientists have noted that even the best [EM Drive] experimental results can’t be distinguished from background noise,

Thank you for taking time to address this. I, for one, value your time, and commend the effort you put forth daily to make this blog useful to me and my family.

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By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2017/02/21/doing-it-wrong/#comment-5034 Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:10:52 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6478#comment-5034 It violates basic physics without any real justification other than to make it fit the desired results.

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By: Franck Bread https://briankoberlein.com/2017/02/21/doing-it-wrong/#comment-5032 Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:38:31 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6478#comment-5032 Perhaps the article is yet incomplete as missing is the rationale of falsification of Mc’s theory? What is the particular reason his controverse but intriguing almost correct calculations should be seen invalid?

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