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		<title>By: Milo</title>
		<link>http://dmitrybrant.com/2006/02/15/takionic-follow-up/comment-page-1#comment-8065</link>
		<dc:creator>Milo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Marshall:

You may find DB&#039;s post to be humorous, but I find your comments to be likewise. Your words show that, like many people, you have no concept of the fundamentals of science.

Science is all about disproving things, not proving them. It&#039;s a basic fact that you can never actually show anything to be true, only false. No matter how much evidence you have in support of something, it takes only a single statement of fact to refute the lot. That&#039;s how the game is played. All propositions are subject to endless scrutiny by the community at large, and only those that survive attempts at refutation are accepted. Even then, they&#039;re only kept around so long as they continue to pass the tests.

Our so-called &quot;laws&quot; of science are only so because everyone who tests them gets the same results. Nobody is able to refute them. I guarantee you that as soon as a valid experiment comes along that generates different results, the landscape will change.

As for ATT, it is entirely possible that Mr. Wagner has created something noteworthy. However, his failure to submit his ideas for peer review suggests otherwise. I understand that he is wary of &quot;the system,&quot; but his fears are entirely unfounded. If he really had something to show, he wouldn&#039;t have to worry about costly legal fees or theft of intellectual property. The world has many mechanisms in place to protect against the latter. As for the former, if he could really do what he claims, he would have a great many people handing him blank checks.

As a scientist, I must leave open the possibility that Mr. Wagner is telling the truth and has in fact developed something great for this world. Despite significant evidence that he&#039;s full of BS, it&#039;s always possible that something new will come to light tomorrow that will vindicate him. You&#039;ll understand if I don&#039;t hold my breath.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marshall:</p>
<p>You may find DB's post to be humorous, but I find your comments to be likewise. Your words show that, like many people, you have no concept of the fundamentals of science.</p>
<p>Science is all about disproving things, not proving them. It's a basic fact that you can never actually show anything to be true, only false. No matter how much evidence you have in support of something, it takes only a single statement of fact to refute the lot. That's how the game is played. All propositions are subject to endless scrutiny by the community at large, and only those that survive attempts at refutation are accepted. Even then, they're only kept around so long as they continue to pass the tests.</p>
<p>Our so-called "laws" of science are only so because everyone who tests them gets the same results. Nobody is able to refute them. I guarantee you that as soon as a valid experiment comes along that generates different results, the landscape will change.</p>
<p>As for ATT, it is entirely possible that Mr. Wagner has created something noteworthy. However, his failure to submit his ideas for peer review suggests otherwise. I understand that he is wary of "the system," but his fears are entirely unfounded. If he really had something to show, he wouldn't have to worry about costly legal fees or theft of intellectual property. The world has many mechanisms in place to protect against the latter. As for the former, if he could really do what he claims, he would have a great many people handing him blank checks.</p>
<p>As a scientist, I must leave open the possibility that Mr. Wagner is telling the truth and has in fact developed something great for this world. Despite significant evidence that he's full of BS, it's always possible that something new will come to light tomorrow that will vindicate him. You'll understand if I don't hold my breath.</p>
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		<title>By: db</title>
		<link>http://dmitrybrant.com/2006/02/15/takionic-follow-up/comment-page-1#comment-1469</link>
		<dc:creator>db</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>marshall,
Tachyon energy is not a &quot;newly-emerging science,&quot; as you put it. Tachyons are hypothetical pseudo-particles used only in certain mathematical models in string theory and special relativity.
The reason I wrote my article was to expose the business of selling Tachyon products for the quackery that it is, and explain to readers that this &quot;technology&quot; is utter nonsense. I couldn&#039;t find many other pages on the Internet that did so adequately.
Did you know that, shortly after the element Radium was discovered, some companies started to sell Radium-infused water? Obviously the companies promoted their product as having &quot;invigorating&quot; and &quot;healing&quot; properties, until people started dying due to radiation!
It seems that people will believe anything, and buy anything. I&#039;m simply trying to set things straight.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>marshall,<br />
Tachyon energy is not a "newly-emerging science," as you put it. Tachyons are hypothetical pseudo-particles used only in certain mathematical models in string theory and special relativity.<br />
The reason I wrote my article was to expose the business of selling Tachyon products for the quackery that it is, and explain to readers that this "technology" is utter nonsense. I couldn't find many other pages on the Internet that did so adequately.<br />
Did you know that, shortly after the element Radium was discovered, some companies started to sell Radium-infused water? Obviously the companies promoted their product as having "invigorating" and "healing" properties, until people started dying due to radiation!<br />
It seems that people will believe anything, and buy anything. I'm simply trying to set things straight.</p>
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		<title>By: marshall</title>
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		<dc:creator>marshall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I find this article hillarious. I understand that in life there always must exist a negative and a positive or two extremes in order for there to be some level or platform from which we can step up on and observe the observable (neutrality). Just as many &quot;new-agers&quot; quickly snatch up this pseudo and fringe-science and use it as rhetoric, I see you doing the same thing in your little blog site here. I think if more people out there tried to prove things right than wrong, we would have more discoveries on this Earth. Chastising and making a perversity of this newly emerging science is ridiculous. Point out the loonies and then offer an interesting point on the subject of Tachyons and maybe a link to someone or some(thing) that is doing work on the subject within the scientific community. Maybe you could go a bit further back and talk about Tesla... If you know who that is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I find this article hillarious. I understand that in life there always must exist a negative and a positive or two extremes in order for there to be some level or platform from which we can step up on and observe the observable (neutrality). Just as many "new-agers" quickly snatch up this pseudo and fringe-science and use it as rhetoric, I see you doing the same thing in your little blog site here. I think if more people out there tried to prove things right than wrong, we would have more discoveries on this Earth. Chastising and making a perversity of this newly emerging science is ridiculous. Point out the loonies and then offer an interesting point on the subject of Tachyons and maybe a link to someone or some(thing) that is doing work on the subject within the scientific community. Maybe you could go a bit further back and talk about Tesla... If you know who that is.</p>
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		<title>By: CHC</title>
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		<dc:creator>CHC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>arxiv.org (a great site btw) has a number of papers on tachyons, including one titled &quot;Ghosts and Tachyons in the Fifth Dimension&quot;, see http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ph/pdf/0412/0412280.pdf</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>arxiv.org (a great site btw) has a number of papers on tachyons, including one titled "Ghosts and Tachyons in the Fifth Dimension", see <a href="http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ph/pdf/0412/0412280.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ph/pdf/0412/0412280.pdf</a></p>
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