Biologists also love autolyzed yeast extract and fetal bovine serum, so there’s that.

Well, that makes sense, those are the ones that can’t conceive of anything working that wasn’t designed by someone at least as brilliant as them.

You do realize you’re ‘worshipping’ the fevered creation of an unshaven man who lives on a steady diet of cup ramen and probably hasn’t had a proper shower in weeks...

You don’t worship the Buddha; you kill the Buddha.

How much is it and when can I get one stateside?

Always wanted an Evangelion pachinko machine for my game room ... oooh Ninja Gaiden.

He said ‘If’ and in response you admitted that indeed your entire personality *IS* defined by the media you consume by taking offense to it. I think I can safely say that makes you the type of shallow, thin skinned person who tells people to go fuck themselves when they criticize cultural trappings that you define…

Those are all very good points, but when we have the energies to probe those regimes, and see if maybe SR breaks down, or maybe causality breaks down, we will have already had the energy budget to build conventional relativistic starships and move our entire civilization wherever we wanted to go - this desire to see…

You can never be sure. There always could be signal below the noise floor, but you can certainly put a cap on signal strength and decide that further investigation is going to be too expensive and too unlikely to produce anything useful. Otherwise you are spending infinite amounts of money investigating an infinite…

Its been investigated by two laboratories now and nobody has produced said evidence. Care to go for three?


By the way, what ever happened to the White-Juday warp interferometry experiment that was going to have us on the other side of the galaxy by now?

At what point do you simply say the amount of thrust this produces, if any, is so below our ability to measure it that its pointless in the first place.

IF THIS PRODUCED WORKING THRUST IT WOULD KNOCK ITSELF OFF THE APPARATUS. They are feeding it TONS of electricity and using a torsion balance to get thrust measurements…

Every perpetual motion machine, every reactionless drive, and every water-powered gasoline replacement ever.

Oh, and I forgot palladium/platinum catalyzed fusion, AIDs cured by sex with a virgin, peach-pit cures for cancers, homeopathy, ear candling, colloidal silver, etc...

No, its not, because that’s a rabbit hole that never ends and wastes the investigators time and money. Eventually you’re studying your instruments instead of whatever it was you started out with. If I’m a microbiologist, and a mold contaminates my experiment, I don’t need to now go and research that mold, and how it…

Yeah, and see here I thought it was to determine if the thrust this device produces is distinguishable from measurement error. I have an answer to that question - I don’t need to pursue it any further, since I’m not invested in finding out where their coronal discharges are or where the heating of the air is…

You can add me to the list, at the bottom with the other people who will turn out to be right.

Yeah, except neutrinos are one of the proposed components of dark matter. Nobody is really proposing things outside of the standard model for it. Okay, thats not quite true, but there is plenty of stuff that it can be before you resort to WIMPs and MACHOs.

Axions are an extension to the standard model, if you like.

The big bang wasn’t just accepted overnight. People looked at many competing theories and none of them stood up to direct observation. The big bang is of course incomplete - it starts with a singularity - thats a non-physical object, its where the math has been extrapolated to its illogical extreme. We already know we…

You’re backwards. In the absence of experiments that definitely show its NOT measurement error, you assume it is, because THAT is correctable and the more conservative assumption.

You’re right, thats why we have to accept that fairies could be real and we should go hunting them in the moonlight! Hold on, I need to get my magic vorpal sword +6 of demon slaying — just in case.

Yeah, physics is incomplete. At the edges. We still don’t have a unified theory of quantum gravitation, or an explanation…

Neutrinos are flying through you right now and not interacting with you. They conserve momentum just fine, and they have mass. There are some great theories about dark energy, but like I said, these are all incomplete - they are observations that can’t be explained yet. But they aren’t things that would overturn…

There may be conventional physics there worth investigating. But a violation of the conservation of momentum means we are now *gods* and we just didn’t know it.