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

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":

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  Red-orange is measured, purple and blue are RST, green is mainstream theory (it's in there, look carefully at the red-orange line)

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  RST prediction: 5.6 V. Mainstream prediction: 5.1 V. Measured: 5.1 V.

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  RST prediction: 2.6 V. Mainstream prediction: 1.1 V. Measured: 1.1 V.