Re: Great Quack Manuscripts Received?

[Mitchell.Porter @ lambada.oit.unc.edu]

>In article <rossk-0--@4--.116.15.137> rossk@bnr.ca (Ross Kouhi) writes:
>
>>I recall hearing from a physics prof a while back that he
>>occaisionally got a manuscript or some such thing from 
>>the average guy on the street who decided he had discovered
>>antigravity or timetravel or some such thing - perhaps 
>>an engine that could power a car with a buck of water
>>or something.
>>
>>Does anyone have any interesting (eg. funny, wierd etc..)
>>experiences with receiving such documents?  I always
>>think that the most entertaining stuff is pseudo-science
>>whipped up by the enthusiastic lay-person who identifies
>>with Einstein or Hawking or other famous scientist, and decides
>>that they could do the same.  
>
>>Any examples would be enjoyable to hear about - so post!
>
>Actually, lots of the posts on this newsgroup are examples of what
>you're looking for, so it scarcely seems necessary to post MORE
>crackpot theories: how could need more?   Anyway, yes, every serious
>physicist probably gets some of these manuscripts... for example, I have
>a book here by Allen C. Goodrich called The Universe is God.  The cover
>says "Figure 2" on it, and shows 2 concentric spheres, labelled with all
>sorts of stuff like - Delta KE, + Delta PE, and with two radial lines
>labelled "anti-gravity" and "anti-matter".  The book starts like this:
>
>                     THE UNIVERSE
>                  A UNIFIED THEORY
>                SPACE-TIME MECHANICS
>                     RELATIVITY
>           LINEAR AND VOLUMETRIC LAWS OF MOTION
>                     (MECHANICS) 
>             THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL
>          (COPYRIGHT 1988 Allen C. Goodrich)
>
>SUMMARY
>
>TIME (present) is the sum of all past times.
>
>           integral t dt = t^2/2
>
>MASS is the rate of change of the change of the volume
>of the energy of the affected universe with time (Volumetric
>acceleration L^3/t^2).  Angular acceleration = alpha.
>
>alpha = 1/t^2 = K(M-m)/L^3 = KM/L^3 - Km/L^3 = g_M/L - g_m/L
>
>g = g_M - g_m = L/t^2
>
>The so-called force of gravity F_g = mg = K(M-m)/L^2.
>
>The concept of attraction between masses is therefore unnecessary.
>
>ENERGY TRANSFER (See Figure I and II) is the rotation of a potential
>energy change of the universe.  The difference between volumetric
>acceleration and linearrr acceleration is the basis and reason for the
>world of energy, momentum, and time in which we live.  
>
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>And so on.
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