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DeSwiss

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14. I pay no attention to orthodoxy.

Wed May 22, 2013, 05:28 PM

May 2013

''Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and progress, everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.''

~Robert Anton Wilson

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Field experiments (Magnetic fields) - Has anyone else seen this [View all] truedelphi May 2013 OP

It would appear this is another case of "youtube science" Warren DeMontague May 2013 #1

You know, it could be theory that solves it all... napoleon_in_rags May 2013 #2

If you can remember the surfer's name, I would appreciate it. truedelphi May 2013 #3

Antony Lisi napoleon_in_rags May 2013 #4

I thought it was interesting that Lisi was explaining stuff geometrically Warpy May 2013 #5

That how I see it: I call it science porn. napoleon_in_rags May 2013 #6

Two minutes and twenty seconds of bullshit at the beginning Cronus Protagonist May 2013 #7

Then I woke up, watched some more and laughed at the "correlation between the shape of buildings" Cronus Protagonist May 2013 #8

I saw a lot of geometric patterns induced by B fields. BadgerKid May 2013 #9

4 minutes in, that's supposed to be a photon DetlefK May 2013 #10

Thank you for the minute by minute account of his failures. truedelphi May 2013 #11

Yep. DeSwiss May 2013 #12

Thanks for commenting. truedelphi May 2013 #13

I pay no attention to orthodoxy. DeSwiss May 2013 #14

That is one fabulous quote. truedelphi May 2013 #15