I’ve spent a while hanging around conspiracy theorists online, and taken the time to follow up on the sorts of people who get talked about for proposing “revolutionary” theories which are kept down by the scientific orthodoxy.
What distinguishes people in this category, of which Miles Mathis is typical, is not failure to produce testable hypotheses, but the production of hypotheses that are trivially wrong. If Miles Mathis’ claims about physics were correct, to point out a single instance of failure, GPS satellites, rather than being geosynchronous, would crash into the earth. The math he uses in his models is simply wrong (RichardKennaway already linked to a site which does an accessible rundown of his errors.) Trying to use him as an example of a mathematician whose work refutes quantum mechanics is no different than trying to refute relativity by citing a person who uses incorrect mathematics to outline a model that implies that the world is flat. Even if quantum mechanics or relativity were incorrect, these arguments would be completely meaningless.
Here’s a starting point that might, just possibly, help us actually get somewhere. Do you agree that if a hypothesis is correct, it shouldn’t predict things that aren’t true? For instance, if a hypothesis indicates that the world is flat, and you can fall off of it, and experiments show that you can travel in a line around the world and end up where you started, then the hypothesis indicating a flat earth is wrong?
I’ve spent a while hanging around conspiracy theorists online, and taken the time to follow up on the sorts of people who get talked about for proposing “revolutionary” theories which are kept down by the scientific orthodoxy.
What distinguishes people in this category, of which Miles Mathis is typical, is not failure to produce testable hypotheses, but the production of hypotheses that are trivially wrong. If Miles Mathis’ claims about physics were correct, to point out a single instance of failure, GPS satellites, rather than being geosynchronous, would crash into the earth. The math he uses in his models is simply wrong (RichardKennaway already linked to a site which does an accessible rundown of his errors.) Trying to use him as an example of a mathematician whose work refutes quantum mechanics is no different than trying to refute relativity by citing a person who uses incorrect mathematics to outline a model that implies that the world is flat. Even if quantum mechanics or relativity were incorrect, these arguments would be completely meaningless.
Here’s a starting point that might, just possibly, help us actually get somewhere. Do you agree that if a hypothesis is correct, it shouldn’t predict things that aren’t true? For instance, if a hypothesis indicates that the world is flat, and you can fall off of it, and experiments show that you can travel in a line around the world and end up where you started, then the hypothesis indicating a flat earth is wrong?