Yeah I tried that he put me on ignore every time I asked a valid question, making up excuses every time that it was all about him. I think there is nowhere to go, you can’t discuss a subject with someone who hasn’t once in 3 years answered your questions, whether they were ad homs or not. I have gotten to this point now simply because even when he didn’t know who I was, he would not answer my points, even when there was no ad hominem involved, he ducked and avoided them. You go on lauding him if you must be we all know he’s not playing fairly. I really don’t give a shit any more there’s nothing more to be said, he just does not want to discuss science with anyone, unless they agree with him (or they disagree in a way that is not anything to do with the general place science is, ie they are also making contentious scientific viewpoints) Suffice to say there is no place for the conventional, if you make any claim that is any way considered accepted in science you are out the door. You think it’s all about me, well you go and look at all the posts he’s made, everyone just comes up against a wall of excuses that they can not penetrate. He is discussing science with himself not any of us.
Why can’t we make points that conventional science which has had so many successes for hundreds of years must be right about something? Answer me that? When all the evidence accrued has lead to massive advances in technology why are we not allowed to use them as valid points, with such evidence forthcoming? Valid contentions in his philosophy and science repeatedly addressed and ignored?
James’s wonder thread, well even before we got to that point there were dozens of contentions he did not answer, there’s no point then having someone labour on and on about a physics which has no foundation because no one has been answered in the first place. Take the thread from the start there are dozens of points that are made that are simply ignored, which make any further discussion pointless. We cannot jump to the end of the thread now and start addressing anything, too many points have been ignored. his thread is not a discussion it’s proselytising now. It’s too late. You can’t reverse time. And he certainly wont go back and address all the salient points from all the people he missed. Maybe on a new thread somewhere, but you see how they go too, he just skips over anything inconvenient. It’s not worth it any more, it’s been going on for too long, and it has become too trite.
If James really has any interest in science he only needs to discuss all of science, not only stuff which is on the fringe. He might find, that people are more willing to forgo the ad homs (although frankly he is as guilty of that as anyone else) if he is willing to answer the questions way down the line in the first place. Bit of advice, will be ignored, but contest us not just the fringe and you might find a dialogue, atm it’s just a James monologue. This is a discussion board not a James Board.
I and everyone else is equitable, let’s say the next thread on science that is posted James has a disagreement with, when people ask valid questions, he answers first before he proceeds to explain the universe. I don’t think that’s an unreasonable thing to ask. All science has a place in argument not just way out ideas yes?
Incidentally I know it doesn’t matter but I understand everything James posted there, it’s really just saying what physics already says and using different terms. affectance is equally explained by wave/particle theory as it is by James, it’s just plagiarism. I’ve said that before that all of his terms could merely be replaced by any other theory, they add nothing discrete.
Gradients which energy distribution must overcome as explained by conventional physics. Delayed is just saying what is already said.
Energy becomes confined by more energy or mass, is actually just saying energy density creates greater gradients which hence impede objects in space, it’s all just the same thing.
Of course the waffle about free space is unnecessary since no such thing exists. Essentially though massless objects propagate at c, unless another force is acting on them. It really is not distinct from current theory and I see no reason to believe it is anything that anyone else said 100 years ago.
It’s all just the usual. The problem is people who don’t really understand what he’s saying fail to see how he’s just saying what is already the case. What James is trying to add is only a philosophical presumption painted over the top. One that cannot be proven any more than any other interpretation can.
If he kept his argument to just the philosophical, and did not try to prove it was better than current theory with just the philosophical no one would have any issue, currently all interpretations are equally valid in that they are all the same thing described differently. It’s the all science is wrong thing that grates. Theory must have testable predictions, James knows none of his will distinguish themselves above what already exists, and this bothers him. So what who cares. We’re all at the same impasse live with it.