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Fitzpatrick's Theory of Everything

But having said that, I now know Einstein was correct in searching for the one single extremely simple unifying principle because if I have not discovered it then I have at least found the closest extremely simple method you will ever get to visualize it.
Translation: "I don't have a theory. But I do have a pop-science explanation of what my theory would be if I had one."
 
Some more Theories Of Everything

http://www.theoryofeverything.com
http://www.sy231theory.com/Superstring_Theory.html
http://www.timecube.com
http://www.virtualchaos.org
http://www.fsbassociates.com/shambhala/theoryofeverything.htm
http://www.geocities.com/davidjayjordan/T.html
http://www.greatmystery.org/laszlo.html
http://www.meta-religion.com/Physics/Cosmological_physics/theory_of_everything_fritz.htm
http://indigo.ie/~peter/toe.htm
http://www.peace-files.com

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Meaty Curtains said:
http://www.rbduncan.com/TOEbyFitzpatrick.htm

Crazy physics crank brings us the dirt on why Einstein was wrong and he is right, and provides us with all the secrets of the universe.

sci.physics.relativity is full of cranks like this.

They say Einstein is wrong because of this or that thought experiment. Repeated requests to show mathematical working are either ignored, or in the rare occasions when math is employed, the simple math mistakes are legion.

They then claim the same thing over again on another thread.

Relativity theory is a theory based solidly on the axioms of mathematics and is, at heart, a symmetry theory. Because it goes against people's strongest assumptions about the Universe like the lack of a Universal Time or that lengths measured in one frame of reference are different from another, it drags in more than its fair share of cranks claiming its wrong.

On reflection, every single solid piece of science has someone denying it on Usenet. Incredibly, there are people on sci.geo claiming that plate tectonics is wrong.
 
Re: Re: Fitzpatrick's Theory of Everything

Diamond said:
Incredibly, there are people on sci.geo claiming that plate tectonics is wrong.
"Incredibly"?

Even if there weren't so many nuts in the world, do you think the fundies could leave continental drift alone?
 
While skimming the "extremely simple" web page, trying to find where he tells us what his theory actually is, rather than just going on and on about how wonderful and groundbreaking and revolutionary it is, I came across this:

Math is the very soul of science and it is the sword of Excaliber that every scientist carries next to him just as the Vikings always carried their swords right next to them all the time.

Remember, kids, it's not REAL SCIENCE without a big ol' pile of mixed metaphors!
 
I absolutely hate these kinds of websites. I will soon tell you my extremely simple reason for hating this website.

Many people have come up with theories as to why I hate this website. Some say it is because of its horrid understanding of science. Some have said it is because of my chronic bronchitis. A few "scientists" have even conjectured that I really love this website.

They are all wrong, for an extremely simple reason which you will see if you keep reading.

All the information you need to understand my extremely simple reason has been in front of your face for years. Einstein wrote about it, Pasteur alluded to it. Even Dr Seuss was not too far off the mark.

But they missed the extremely simple reason, because they spent too much time using complicated road maps of my psyche, when a much simpler explanation was hidden in the shrubbery.

My extremely simple reason takes less time to read than you have spent thus far, but my extremely simple reason has this huge buildup because I like the dramatic buildup...

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OK, that's essentially why I hate this website. I can't keep that up any longer.
 
Well I must admit I went on reading and reading and reading until I found any statement of substance. Then I got to this:
One of the biggest mistakes ever made was in not listening to David Hilbert. Hilbert spelled it all out when he questioned geometry. This text would be far too long if I went into all of Hilbert's analyzing but I'll give you a small fraction of it here right now: Hilbert asked, "What is this dimensionless thing we call a point?"

Hilbert proved, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that such a conception as an imaginary point was absolutely useless when examining our entire universe because as you imagine yourself getting smaller and smaller, while trying to look at things smaller and smaller, this point must start to take on size. It must get bigger as you keep getting smaller and smaller, as you try to visualize this tiny micro world. If you could still keep getting smaller yet, then this thing that was once only a tiny point would finally take up the size of a marble, then a golfball, then a baseball, then a basketball, then eventually a lot of the room in your new universe. If you counter this argument and say, "No, it will not. It will stay at the same point size." Then if that point was at the end of a three degree angle when you got smaller then what is this same angle now that you are smaller? Sorry, you lose. Hilbert pulled the rug out of the very foundations of not only Euclidean geometry but also all types of geometry, because all types are forced to use points. Geometry is OK only if you keep your same size.
Now, I was under the impression that David Hilbert provided the first complete axiomatisation of Euclidean geometry. This woo thinks that Hilbert debunked it. HOW? HOW? HOW? How can anyone be so wrong? In order to have heard of Hilbert, and to know that he had a connection with geometry, he must have read something about Hilbert and geometry... and misunderstood it completely. HOW?

He is Unskilled And Unaware Of It.
Sullivan, in 1953 , marveled at "the failure of learning which has left their capacity for fantastic, self-centered delusions so utterly unaffected by a life-long history of educative events"
 
So Mr Fitzpatrick says nothing at all for ages, then gets something totally wrong then?

And I love his mathematical debating style:

"Then if that point was at the end of a three degree angle when you got smaller then what is this same angle now that you are smaller? Sorry, you lose."

Why, it's almost like watching Andrew Wiles providing the proof for Fermat's Last Theorem.

And what does his "when you get smaller" analogy even mean? Is a ninety degree angle larger if you are really small?

I think someone gave Dan a set square, a huge spliff and said "Off you go, what's the answer to everything"?



Finaly, a brief round of aplause please for Justin Kruger and David Dunning for having the balls to write an article on "How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments"

It's really inviting some peer criticism isn't it.
 

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