03-31-2012, 12:45 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Wrote:It seems to come with the job. The longer one writes about science, the more correspondence one attracts from mainstream dissidents brandishing answers to the big questions.http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/book...1w2z5.html
Science outliers abound, as a Google search of ''alternative physics'' reveals. The World Science Database, a fast-expanding archive of alternative physics theories, lists more than 1900 theorists, 1300 books and 5000 abstracts of papers. Some ideas are sketchy, others highly detailed and occasionally accompanied by swirls of equations - others are downright daft.