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Thanks to Herb Gottlieb and Brian Whatcott. The subject deserve one more a
reflection, since it shows certain dark zone of pseudoscientists knowledge,
that is very interesting to discuss with our students, that have few
opportunities to chat with a scientist. A case very interesting has been the
one of magnets to extract calcium carbonate of waters, for years talking
with a salesman I suggested to him could prove the cash of the method with a
simple connection in T, one of whose branches the magnets were placed and in
other no, with the simple procedure to boil the water, it would be possible
to be shown to the different amount from carbonates in a case and another
one. The salesman smiled and he did not make the test. Somebody knows if it
were proven?
Carlos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Whatcott" <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
To: <PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: World Jump Day
Distressed that Herb's response revealed a summary line in English
after the Spanish text relayed by Carlos Alberto Vasquez, which I
had missed on the fist pass - I submitted the Spanish text to Babelfish.
AltaVista's translator has been disappointing of late.
But I was impressed. by the quality of the raw translation.
I gardened the text for a conjunction here, a preposition there,
a pronoun, and was pleased with the following:
In order to remove any suspicion about the scientific endorsement
of Hans Peter Niesward, supposedly a professor of the Department
of Gravitational Physics of the ISA/Munich Institute of Germany,
the only test that is offered is a video of low quality.
Of professor Niesward, meanwhile, there are no more data than
those than relate him to this project by means of a simple search
in Internet. Thus while the news ran like a gun-powder trail in
blogs and forums worldwide, looking for answers from
pseudo-scientists (few), the probability is small that this event
is at least practicable and, less still, would obtain the indicated
results.
[via C A Vasquez, trans: Babelfish]
At 05:31 PM 1/1/2006, you wrote:
Muchos gracias, Carlos.
Herb
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:02:29 -0300 Carlos Alberto Vasquez
<carlosalbertovasquez@YAHOO.COM.AR> writes:
These web site was see in July 2005, here there is coment (in
Spanish,
sorry):
Para alejar cualquier sospecha, se presenta el aval científico de
Hans Peter
Niesward, supuesto profesor del Departamento de Física Gravitacional
del
Instituto ISA/Munich de Alemania, y la única prueba que se ofrece es
un
video de baja calidad. Del profesor Niesward, mientras tanto, no hay
más
datos que los que lo relacionan con este proyecto mediante una
simple
búsqueda en Internet. Así y todo, la noticia corrió como pólvora en
blogs y
foros de todo el mundo, buscando respuestas seudo-científicas a las
(pocas)
probabilidades de que este evento sea al menos practicable y, menos
aún, que
se obtengan los resultados prometidos.
In brief: neither the Professor or the Institute exists.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Lapinski" <anthony_lapinski@PDS.ORG>
To: <PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 6:59 PM
Subject: World Jump Day
I received this website from my physics colleague. The idea is forpeople
on Earth to simultaneously jump to alter Earth's orbit to reduceglobal
warming. Yea, I thought it was a joke, too, until I went to thewebsite:
400,000,000
[ http://www.venehammerschlag.com/worldjumpday/
]http://www.venehammerschlag.com/worldjumpday/
This will take place on July 20, 2006. Apparently, nearly
people have already registered, and 600,000,000 are required forthis to
work! Is this for real??? I wonder if this group has anyaffiliation with
the Flat Earth Society...