Comments on: Randi does Big Think

By: SXS

SXS — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:09:42 +0000

When we are going to see that worm hole in action ?
I want to see nanny again.

By: Richard Woods

Richard Woods — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:47:22 +0000

@38

Phil, the link to your comment policy needs to have ” target=” pruned off the end.

By: mish

mish — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:16:34 +0000

I agree, that Savain guy by the way he’s going on and on and on and on is irritating… but I’m curious in knowing if what he’s saying has any merits at all…
Does the mistake that he’s talking about exists?

I’m not a physics expert but I’m just curious!

By: Beelzebud

Beelzebud — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:55:39 +0000

He’s like a more sophisticated version of the timecube guy.

His site is good for some laughs though. He’s right and everyone on the planet is wrong, according to him. Oh and the truth about quantum mechanics is in the bible!

By: Stevie

Stevie — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:27:25 +0000

Louis Savain used to go around the net attacking people under the name “nemesis”. He is certainly a nut case because he fails to see that his use of the word spacetime is referencing the block universe model which looks at all of spacetime as being frozen, however, if you are in spacetime, everything is active and time, motion and change do exist.

By: Conzar

Conzar — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:45:13 +0000

@stereox112
“I guess experimental evidence works on crackpots like holy water on vampires.”
Holy water and vampires are fictional just like time travel. But I guess crackpots like using fictitious examples to “prove” their points.

By: stereox112

stereox112 — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:55:25 +0000

@Everyone:

Don’t mind Louis Savain, he’s a crackpot. The GPS argument seems to work well against him, it’s funny how he tries his best to ignore it while talking nonsese about relativity. I guess experimental evidence works on crackpots like holy water on vampires.

Also, stay tuned for his new theory on gravity (as a non-local, instantaneous phenomenon). He’s been working alone on that one for the past decade or something.

By: Grand Lunar

Grand Lunar — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:06:42 +0000

Nice one, IVAN3MAN AT LARGE.

I suppose one can prove this alternative idea wrong simply by moving 1 meter to the right (or left). You move in space. And since you’re moving at one second per second, you’ve also moved in time.

Hence, it is possible to move in spacetime.

Why is it people like this Louis person become so insulting?

By: IVAN3MAN AT LARGE

IVAN3MAN AT LARGE — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:51:55 +0000

Here we have Louis Savain as The Black Knight:

Plait and Randi, you are two gutless cowards and you know it. You ignore the question because you know you would look like fools if you tried to answer it. Your brainless, boot-licking cheerleaders are not helping your case either.

By: Phil Plait

Phil Plait — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:18:33 +0000

Congrats to Louis Savain, who has managed to be the latest troll to break my one commenting rule. From now on, all his posts will be marked as spam.

By: Teshi

Teshi — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:12:45 +0000

On the upside, I now know the internet history of someone I have no real need to know about. Hurrah!

EDIT: Still not worth it. Stop it, Teshi! You’re wasting your time!

By: Louis Savain

Louis Savain — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:04:05 +0000

JerWah,

You and Keith (the first one) are both brain-dead fools. And so is Dr. Mark Chu-Carroll, PhD Computer Scientist. LOL.

Nothing Can Move in Spacetime:
http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2008/02/nothing-can-move-in-spacetime.html

By: Keith (the first one)

Keith (the first one) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:42:59 +0000

You’re right Teshi. It’s not worth it.

JerWah was on the case anyway. Well done.

By: JerWah

JerWah — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:02:52 +0000

Hopefully Louis Savin has left the building already, but I did some googling on his “theory” and found this:

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/01/the_nasty_little_truth_about_i.php

which fairly well destroys his “prove me wrong” Ok someone did 2 years ago…

By: Louis Savain

Louis Savain — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:02:26 +0000

Answer the question: Can anything move in spacetime, yes or no?

I am still waiting. LOL.

Sitting on a Mountain of Crap, Wasting Time:
http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2010/05/sitting-on-mountain-of-crap-wasting.html

By: Teshi

Teshi — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:57:44 +0000

I don’t think it’s a battle that needs fighting.

By: Keith (the first one)

Keith (the first one) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:51:22 +0000

Skepticism is best when it is directed at one’s own beliefs. Right Louis?

Teshi I thought your original post was fine. I should have copied it.

By: Grand Lunar

Grand Lunar — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:14:49 +0000

Concerning this “conversation” with this Louis person and his appearent denial of GR reminds me of a quote that was used in Neil Tyson’s book.

IIRC, it goes “The only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier”.

Seems appropiate here.

By: Teshi

Teshi — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:02:21 +0000

EDIT: Changed my mind, thought better of it.

By: Grand Lunar

Grand Lunar — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:03:45 +0000

James Randi is made of WIN and AWESOME.

Has he done much on these paranormal “investigators”?
The ‘Ghost Hunters’ type?
I’ve only seen one reference on the JREF channel on YouTube.

I ask because I’m upset by how much my family is into this stuff.
I had hoped the woo-woo world would not come into my life. It angers me that it did.
Even worse, they’re also into “Pychic Kids”. The one with Chip Coffey.

By: Stan9FOS

Stan9FOS — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:23:36 +0000

Hi Louis. Thanks for the links. Hilarious.

Phil is obviously holding out on us. He’s not in the business of laughter therapy. Not surprising, given the general “critical thinking” and “rationality” he likes to espouse. Thanks for playing, though.

By: Mike Mullen

Mike Mullen — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:15:04 +0000

“At any rate, I am still waiting for Plait and Randi (or anybody else) to refute my argument that Einstein’s time dimension makes motion impossible. Any takers? Or are you all a bunch of gutless cowards as I suspected?”

give me a T…Give me a R…Give me an O..Give me a; oh you get the idea.

By: Rev. I. P. Freeley

Rev. I. P. Freeley — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:28:40 +0000

Louis Savain:

At any rate, I am still waiting for Plait and Randi (or anybody else) to refute my argument that Einstein’s time dimension makes motion impossible. Any takers? Or are you all a bunch of gutless cowards as I suspected?

Proverbs 23:9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

By: Louis Savain

Louis Savain — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:47:07 +0000

@ Surferosad

Did you know that a time dimension makes motion impossible and that nothing moves in spacetime for this reason? Of course not. Instead of being grateful that I taught you something that you did not know, you attack me personally. Why? Because I am contradicting your precious world view. For those of you who are more interested in the truth than propaganda., here is what a relativist has to say about spacetime:

“There is no dynamics within space-time itself: nothing ever moves therein; nothing happens; nothing changes. [...] In particular, one does not think of particles as “moving through” space-time, or as “following along” their world-lines. Rather, particles are just “in” space-time, once and for all, and the world-line represents, all at once the complete life history of the particle.”

From “Relativity from A to B” by Dr. Robert Geroch, U. of Chicago

And he is not the only one. Of course, Geroch cannot say that this falsifies GR because that would put an end to his career.

At any rate, I am still waiting for Plait and Randi (or anybody else) to refute my argument that Einstein’s time dimension makes motion impossible. Any takers? Or are you all a bunch of gutless cowards as I suspected?

Skepticism is best when it is directed at one’s own beliefs. Right Randi?

By: Surferosad

Surferosad — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:48:05 +0000

Come on, don’t feed the troll… Specially if the troll is also a crank.