Yes, right on schedule! The UFO story was yesterday, and today the Inventor story.
It starts out with his revolutionary three-way ping-pong table (of course! – and it’s called TriPong1), but before I even clicked on it I knew there’d be a “oh, and by the way, he has an alternative theory of the universe”, at the end.
I was not disappointed. My favourite bit of Katrin Stanton’s AP story (the photo at left is from the article):
Boyd is seeking investors to build a prototype spatial energy converter to test his theory, which he said could have energy, medical and military-industrial applications.
“This should be easy to disprove,” he said, “But if we are correct, we’ve revolutionized physics and the electric grid as we know it won’t be needed anymore.”
And we’re only on day two of 2007… Excellent.
-cvj
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1I would have preferred TriPing, since from there it is only a short journey to “tripe”.
Having individuals like this test theories outside of the norm gets people to consider possibilities so it’s not all bad. Certainly entertaining at the very least.
I like the idea of this chap creating physical theories using “the String Theory, the Big Bang theory, quotes from Albert Einstein”.
Here’s an equotion example of my own:
(God does not play dice) = (purely logical point of standpoint)*(no definite location for this mark)**2
After suitable analysis, it can be shown to be true in German to 🙂
Back when I was a grad student, I regularly picked up books by cranks and heretics. Very few of them make any sense. Over the years, one of the few was the book on how the pyramids were made from concrete. Another winner was Graham Hancock’s book which stated that there were lost, ice-age cities drowned by the 100m rise in oceans from the glaciers melting. And my favorite crank physicist is Ron Hatch, the engineer who was instrumental in developing the GPS system but who doesn’t believe in relativity, and notes that the GPS system makes calculations that assume a preferred reference frame.
Thanks for the entertaining link, Clifford. I can’t wait to read the New Scientist article on the spatial energy converter 😉