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November 25, 2008

MAKING IT UP AS THEY GO ALONG, PART #1,258

It's "science" stories like this that make it easy for me to group theoretical physicists with nutballs like fundamentalist hyper-religionists and the UFO Scientologists.

Their discovery? Hey, dudes, it's just some big sucking sound holding the universe together:

For now, Dürr's calculation shows that QCD describes quark-based particles accurately, and tells us that most of our mass comes from virtual quarks and gluons fizzing away in the quantum vacuum.

Got that? Most mass comes from non-existant subatomic particles.  It says so, right here in our huge, complicated, theoretical computer program that is so impossibly big there is no way to actualy calculate any provable values, plain as the nose on your face. So give me more money to keep studying it and issuing bafflegab as science. These guys make Al Gore and his laughable "climate models" look like amateurs.

They end up this little exercise in science fiction with this howler, tossed out off-handedly as if to say "So long, and thanks for all the fish:"

So if the LHC confirms that the Higgs exists, it will mean all reality is virtual.

"... all reality is virtual." Period, full stop. That's why we spent all that money on that stupid Large Hadron Collider? To prove that nothing is real? Can I have the money instead?

We need to use some of those superstrings they're always going on about to tie these morons to a tree, in hopes that they will experience a little Newtonian bop on the head and bring them to their senses. Then once they learn to use Occam's razor, they can cut themselves free.

Hopefully, our oncoming Great Depression v2.0 will put loonies like this out of business, and force them to earn a living doing something valuable.

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