Draft:Pseudophysics

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Style over substance Pseudoscience

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Alternative medicine Creationism Racialism Pseudopsychology

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Pseudophysics is pseudoscience masquerading as physics. Pseudophysics has close ties to Pseudoastronomy.

Characteristics

• Lack of mathematics of any kind
• Lack of any kind of experimental rigor
• Confusion of complex physics concepts with magic
• Technobabble and word salad
• Seeks to explain all of physics

Specific examples

Misapplied physics concepts

• Quantum woo — misuses quantum mechanics terms and generally confuses quantum mechanics with magic
  • Quantum consciousness
• Energy woo

Bypassing physics

• Free energy — Attempts to generate energy from nothing, violating the laws of thermodynamics
• Perpetual motion — Like the above, violates the laws of thermodynamics in attempts to get devices to run forever, without running out of energy

Alternatives to standard physics

Relativity

• Deutsche Physik - relativity is too Jewish
• Reciprocal theory
• Autodynamics
• Aetherometry

Miscellaneous

• Electric Universe
• Time Cube
• Cold fusion