And of course if you observe/measure it you change it.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:32 AM D K <dougchar001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Henry,
The quote sounds like a takeoff of a comment attributed to Lord Kelvin:
*“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in
numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when
you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and
unsatisfactory kind.” *
And yes, i do know X-Rays are not a hoax.
Doug Knight
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:54 PM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020, Anthony Cesaroni wrote:
It’s gone quiet. Let’s try this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ugQArIkM8A
I'm reminded, quite strongly, of a comment made by the late Jordin Kare
some years ago, approximately: "One of the warning signs of fraud or
self-deception is that the claimed positive results are persistently
barely measurable, at the ragged limit of experimental error -- that
nobody is able to devise an improved experiment that will convert barely
detectable results to something blindingly obvious."
Even assuming that anti-gravity is possible, if it is ever to be
*useful*,
there has to be a way to make it blindingly obvious.
Henry
P.S. The "reactionless thrusters" have the same problem. Even setting
aside the grave doubts that they actually work as claimed, their claimed
thrust per kilowatt is so dismal that you're better off -- not just a
little, but a whole lot better off -- with an ion thruster.
