Space Geek - Opinions Please

[Richard]

Just found this guy..

http://www.spacegeek.org/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/339370/crazy_astrophysicist/

Anyone know of him? Any opinions?

 

[The Bad Astronomer]

Well, his statement that the outside of the balloon is time and inside is the past is incredibly wrong. I don't think he's a crank, but I have no idea where he got that inside/outside thing. There is no inside or outside.

 

[wwitzke]

Well, his statement that the outside of the balloon is time and inside is the past is incredibly wrong. I don't think he's a crank, but I have no idea where he got that inside/outside thing. There is no inside or outside.

Maybe he's just using an incredibly abstract model for, uh. . . Um. . . Selling his stuff? http://spacegeek.org/book

Check out his about page.

ETA: There was a part one of that video, and he removed one of the dimensions so that he was left with two spacial dimensions and was left with time, so that he could show how the Universe was expanding and how galaxies were, in general, moving away from each other. The two remaining dimensions were represented by the material of the balloon, and time was represented by the expansion of the balloon. Anybody think this sort of simplification (if it actually is a simplification) is helpful in understanding the subject?

 

[Richard]

I must say that I find him very entertaining... I have not see much of his work, but I was laughing. I like his heroes, (Darwin, Sagan etc.) hmmm, you know, I might put up some little videos of my own. (But they won't be about Astronomy Phil.. ...) Origami maybe? Who wants to learn to fold a duck?

 

[CFLarsen]

Well, his statement that the outside of the balloon is time and inside is the past is incredibly wrong. I don't think he's a crank, but I have no idea where he got that inside/outside thing. There is no inside or outside.

"There is no try. There is only do".
Yoda.

"Do be do be do"
Frank Sinatra.

This guy perhaps takes the balloon analogy as the literal truth, instead of as an analogy?

Who wants to learn to fold a duck?

I'd rather eat one.







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