Young cosmologists learn fairly quickly that engaging with eccentrics and their pet theories is generally not a good use of their time. My own experience is that “independent investigators” are alm…
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Wi-fi: If It’s Dangerous, I’ll Eat A Tinfoil Hat…
As for me, I can see plenty of dangers associated with giving children wireless devices, but they are of the “why don’t you get up off the couch / visit a friend / go swimming / throw a ball / prac…
The Dark Side of the Moon
Statistical reasoning is a double-edged tool: it lets scientists sift useful knowledge from the noise of the world, but in other hands it becomes a device for separating the credulous from their ca…
Dump the Warp Core…
So, my take is that even if you can generate a spacewarp in the lab, a quick estimate says its gravitational effects would be billions or trillions of times below the threshold of detectability. Th…