User:Cjameshuff
- Main website (sadly in need of more attention): http://www.arklyffe.com/
- Github (code and stuff): http://github.com/cjameshuff
I'm an embedded systems guy with an interest in science and technology of all sorts, but particularly in electronics, physics, and space. I occasionally take the time to dismantle piles of woo that catch my interest.
I'm mainly active on CosmoQuest (formerly BAUT) and apollohoax.net, and occasionally on Ars Technica.
Reciprocal Theory[edit]
One recent but particularly good/bad/completely bonkers example of pseudophysics I've attacked is Ronald Satz's/Dewey Larson's capacitor nonsense.
Direct links to the relevant threads:
- http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php/126254-Doubts-About-quot-Modern-Physics-quot
- http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php/134832-RE-Doubts-About-Modern-Physics
- http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php/136625-Exper-Confirm-of-Energy-Cons-not-Charge-Cons-in-Two-Capacitor-Problem
And Ronald Satz's blog in which he pretends his embarrassing failures in the above threads never happened: http://transpower.wordpress.com/
In all, a fine example of a crank simply ignoring real world experiments and observations in favor of what they think reality should be like.
I took the first thread as an opportunity do some data acquisition/visualization experiments. I have an identical scope to what Satz was using in the third thread, so I simply used that. The results obtained by this "failed experimenter":
Red-orange is measured, purple and blue are RST, green is mainstream theory (it's in there, look carefully at the red-orange line)
RST prediction: 5.6 V. Mainstream prediction: 5.1 V. Measured: 5.1 V.
RST prediction: 2.6 V. Mainstream prediction: 1.1 V. Measured: 1.1 V.
