Category: hoax (alan sokal)

  • Why Bose is not the scientist after whom Higgs is named.

    A very few particles (out of 1000s) are named after scientists, eg the so called mu meson was called a Yukawa Meson, although it turned out to be a misnomer. Mu-meson was found to be a lepton, rather than a meson, as was thought by Yukawa and others. Now called Muon it belongs in the…

  • The Tesla dream

    Xc; Every scientist has a high degree of respect towards Tesla including me. We use many of his inventions. Having said that in Nikola Tesla’s days particle acceleration technology was almost nonexistent. The current energy we reach is only a current technology. Naturally occurring high energy particles constantly hit earth atmosphere such as extremely high…

  • The relativistic contribution of GPS satelite to OPERA neutrino

    The correct idea of relativity is: S_clock = γ . S_baseline < ——————– [[ length contraction or shortening of length]] τ_clock = (1/γ) . τ_baseline < ———————- [[ time dilation or lengthening of time]]