I love laughing at audiophiles. If you're not familiar with the term, audiophiles are people who are really into top-end audio equipment. In itself, that's fine. But there's a very…
Hydrinos: Impressive Free Energy Crackpottery
Back when I wrote about the whole negative energy rubbish, a reader wrote to me, and asked me to write something about hydrinos. For those who are lucky enough not…
Building Structure in Category Theory: Definitions to Build On
The thing that I think is most interesting about category theory is that what it's really fundamentally about is structure. The abstractions of category theory let you talk about structures…
Second Law Silliness from Sewell
So, via Panda's Thumb, I hear that Granville Sewell is up to his old hijinks. Sewell is a classic creationist crackpot, who's known for two things. First, he's known for…
The Annoying CTMU Thread
I had to close down the original comment thread discussing my rant about the crankery of Chris Langan's CTMU. The cost in server time to repeatedly retrieve that massive comment…
Free Energy Crankery and Negative Mass Nonsense
I've got a couple of pet peeves. As the author of this blog, the obvious one is bad math. And as I always say, the worst math is no math.…