Re:How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations (2009)
by bitJericho on Thursday May 14, 2015 @05:51AM
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Well crackpots are different from me, in that I don't believe I'm one, so yes there is indeed a difference between myself and "them". Sorry if I'm not politically correct enough for you. Just to clarify, I have no issue with crackpots, mentally ill people, whatever you want to call them. My only point is that trying to convince someone that they are a crackpot is not going to work, at least over the internet!
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Re:How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations (2009)
by JadeNB on Thursday May 14, 2015 @09:19AM
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I think the claim is not so much that you are or might be a crackpot, as that it's too easy to misdiagnose a genuine revolutionary as a crackpot. The canonical example for mathematicians is Ramanujan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan); Hardy would have been perfectly justified in thinking him a crackpot and throwing away his letters, and one of the most valuable collaborations in number theory would never have happened.