Talk:Dewey B. Larson
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Infradig (andrew) 20:42, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Please keep McEllwaine out of this, he has his own page. It's simple really, as he had no association with either Larson or ISUS, the society charged with continuing his legacy (and responsible for the web sites). --Infradig (andrew) 23:33, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
I removed a link to original research by 'Blaze Labs' or somesuch, which was not appropriate for this biographical entry.--Infradig (andrew) 06:36, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Andrew, I agree our link has nothing to do with Larson's biography. However the space-time system of units, which was developed by Larson deserves to be mentioned in more detail. We have independently discovered (or to be more precise - rediscovered) this system of units a couple of years ago. Dewey's space time converted units are scattered all over his documents, and nowhere could we find a complete list as shown on our linked page. The intention of adding the link was purely scientific, as there is a good possibility that this system might provide solid foundations for a unified theory. You can prove this for yourself by running our Java converter based on the same system of conversion, which is able to derive all quantum and free space constants which took years of independent experiments to be found:
http://blazelabs.com/si-stconv.asp
The only difference between Larson's numerical values and ours (which gives the correct values), is just in the correct selection of the numerical units taken as natural units. As opposed to Larson's work, we have used Planck's length and time. However, the ST units DO coincide with those mentioned in Larson's work and the linked page could provide a fast overwiew of his proposed system, which is scattered across volumes of Larson's work.
So I wonder if you agree to create a new wiki page - Space time system of units, or extend this biography page to cover some important aspects of Larson's work, or maybe just leave the external link. - Regards Ing.S.Borg Blaze Labs Research 07:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
The learned overlords of the Wikipedia will not allow a description of any of Larson's ideas on these hallowed pages, apparently they could lead impressionable young minds astray. Any attempt to do so again would only stir their wrath I expect. I suggest a perusal of some the archived discussions. The page as it appears now is a compromise, and it's hard enough as it is trying to keep the guardians of idealogical correctness from sniping away (see recent edit history). --Infradig (andrew) 12:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
I could of course quible with some of the words like "no mainstream folowing" and "largely ignored by practicing scientists" as Larson counted amongst his active supporters some academic scientists. There have also been a number of PhD theses evaluating his theory or aspects of it. --Infradig (andrew) 13:06, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
So we noticed when thinking about adding a discussion of another very important & overlooked contribution by Larson -his irreverance for those whose theories as he easlily poked holed in. Over the years these methods of poking holes in others' theories, regardless of his own theory's validation state, have been used but never collected & codified. So that was recently done off Wikipedia at http://groups.msn.com/LarsonsLawsofCredibility/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=1&ID_Message=7, and the link added to Larson's rather sparse page. {Rcastle 5 July 2007}]
Rcastle, this is a biographical entry page. Original research, if that what your page is, does not contitute relevant information. --Infradig (andrew) 00:19, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
