Crank Physics General

[Anonymous No.5727100]

There are thousands of them - wack-ass theorists with their own off-beat, untestable theories as to the basic nature of the universe.

Some of these theories happen to be, although both wrong and untestable, pretty interesting through sheer strangeness - or sometimes hilariousness. This is the thread for posting particularly choice examples.

[Anonymous No.5727105]

>>5727100

[Anonymous No.5727128]

>>5727105

[Anonymous No.5727132]

>>5727128

[Anonymous No.5727133]

>>5727105
>Kozyrev

He gets a lot of play in almost-physics circles.

[Anonymous No.5727138]

http://www.cheniere.org/techpapers/index.html

[Anonymous No.5727141]

>>5727105
Here, have some more of that guy. I wish I could find higher-res versions of this stuff.

[Anonymous No.5727147]

>>5727100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJJ-4lnwrck

Youtube's always good for the really wacky stuff. See if you can spot all the places this goes wrong.

[Anonymous No.5727175]

>>5727147
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcCLIwlbhLc

[Anonymous No.5727183]

>>5727105
>>5727141

He's just a painter, I don't think he's trying to be scientific.

[Anonymous No.5727185]

>>5727147

>discs are not aerodynamic

But Frisbees

[Anonymous No.5727186]

>>5727183
He's definitely crazy, though. He claims his ideas are transmitted to it by a metal object of alien origin in his brain.

[Anonymous No.5727187]

>implying you are intelligent enough to understand this
>implying you aren't a queer god educated stupid evil oneist

http://www.timecube.com/

[Anonymous No.5727189]

>>5727147
I'll take "Supercooled Mercury Plasma" for 500, Alex.

[Anonymous No.5727191]

>>5727175
This actually seems vaguely plausible, assuming that his magic quasicrystal actually exists.

[Anonymous No.5727256]

>Implying we understand enough of the universe for any theory to be actually testable

[Anonymous No.5727264]

[Anonymous No.5727279]

>>5727264
Get that mathematical theology out of here. This is a thread about crank science, not crank math.

[Anonymous No.5727284]

aetherwavetheory.<span class="math">[/spoiler]blog<span class="math">[/spoiler]spot<span class="math">[/spoiler].com/

[Anonymous No.5727295]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa6Laqb_51M

[Anonymous No.5727311]

http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/1/1

Behold, Gyre Theory. A 105-page monstrosity, claiming to explain literally everything with spirals.

Abstract:"Life is an inordinately complex unsolved puzzle. Despite significant theoretical progress, experimental anomalies, paradoxes, and enigmas have revealed paradigmatic limitations. Thus, the advancement of scientific understanding requires new models that resolve fundamental problems. Here, I present a theoretical framework that economically fits evidence accumulated from examinations of life. This theory is based upon a straightforward and non-mathematical core model and proposes unique yet empirically consistent explanations for major phenomena including, but not limited to, quantum gravity, phase transitions of water, why living systems are predominantly CHNOPS (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur), homochirality of sugars and amino acids, homeoviscous adaptation, triplet code, and DNA mutations. The theoretical framework unifies the macrocosmic and microcosmic realms, validates predicted laws of nature, and solves the puzzle of the origin and evolution of cellular life in the universe."

The kicker? This thing managed to get published in a legit scientific journal. It was hilarious.

[Anonymous No.5727313]

>>5727100
I have no idea what this diagram is supposed to mean, but it's beautiful.

[Anonymous No.5727442]

>>5727311
>Here, I present a theoretical framework that economically fits evidence
he done goofed

[Anonymous No.5727459]

>>5727100
Down in the bottom right corner he actually proposes an experiment. I have to give him credit for that. I almost never see crank physics actually propose experiments.

[Anonymous No.5727539]

>>5727311
>explain literally everything with spirals.
>published in a legit scientific journal.

I want to believe...

[Anonymous No.5727598]

>>5727187

[Anonymous No.5727600]

http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/quack.html

>>5727264
Don't try to rustle me with that shit. Yeah I work out nd if I eva c u again ima bust ur fuckin face in.

[Anonymous No.5727660]

>>5727100

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carter_(scientist)

According to Carter, the universe is composed of what he calls "circlons", ring-like structures like "atomic Lego blocks, interlocking rings that snap together to form all the elements".

[Anonymous No.5727694]

>>5727311
>this thing
I refuse to believe it's not a real scientist trolling.

[Anonymous No.5727703]

shit I love crank science and crazy trippy nonsense thanks OP

[Anonymous No.5727722]

>>5727100

Dat kerning

[Anonymous No.5729153]

>>5727703

Check this out: A man who claims to have irrefutably proved that pi = 3.125, exactly.

http://correctpi.com/

And this guy, who has proved that gravity is not a force of attraction of masses- it's a force by which hot things attract other hot things.

http://vixra.org/abs/0907.0018

[Anonymous No.5729159]

>>5729153
And then there's this guy, who is possibly the most entertaining of the whole lot.

http://milesmathis.com/index.html

Notable "accomplishments":

>Demonstrated that every mathematician since (and including) Euclid was wrong;
>Corrected the problems with relativity;
>Turned relativity into a unification theory by proving that magnetism is part of the relativistic gravitational field;
>Shown that all of gravitational/orbital dynamics is completely, utterly wrong; and, last but not least:
>proved that the one true correct value of is exactly 4.

[Anonymous No.5729166]

>>5729159
And here's the best part: His proof of pi=4 involves proving that PI IS NOT DIMENSIONLESS. And the reason pi is not dimensionless? Because the circumference of a circle is not a distance.

[Anonymous No.5729171]

>>5729166
"Now let us return to the geometric circle. All the equations of geometry are created by assuming that time is not a factor. You can’t really just ignore time, so what the geometry does is assume that all underlying time intervals are equal. What does that mean, specifically? Well, it must mean that all the lines are understood to have been drawn with the same velocity. We can ignore the velocity since we define it as equivalent. What does that mean?

It means that the radius is a velocity itself."

Oh lordy.

[Anonymous No.5729198]

This far in and no mention of mixing up neuroscience and quantum mechanics?
I'm impressed.

[Anonymous No.5729202]

>>5729198
It's almost too easy. Besides, it's all the same shit. Mad Physics, Mad Biology, and occasionally the odd bit of Mad Math and Mad Computer Science are the places where the really interesting crankery comes up, because no two theories are the same. They're like special, ridiculous snowflakes. Of mad science.

[Anonymous No.5729372]

Joy Christian and his alleged disproof of Bell's theorem is a great example of a different class of crackpot -- the kind that instead of railing against the evils of mathematics and preaching that physics should conform to common sense, abuses the fuck out of the math and fundamentally doesn't understand what is physically going on.

4-page version:
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0703179

1-page version:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1879