reply to post by JayinAR
It's amazing to me the bloody mindedness of people, it really does.
Pretty much the whole of academia have sneered and ridiculed the whole notion and possibility of super heavy elements, until quite recently that
is.
What else has mainstream science been working on that these 'skeptics' (i hate that word) have laughed at and rubbished for years as impossible,
fantasy, and non-science?
How about Time travel? Yep, the old chestnut is getting serious attention again, and it is estimated that mankind will have cracked it in another 50 -
150 years. Which means it has ALWAYS been possible for any race to conquer at any time.
Teleportation..Star trek style matter beaming is a real science being seriously researched (with REAL research money - lot's of it)
FTL (Faster than light or superluminal speeds) travel has been coming on leaps and bounds over the last 20 or so years. YES, i know relativistic
speeds would increase mass exponentially and would ultimately require more energy than is currently available in the universe, BUT research is heading
into areas that allow for circumventing this.
Anti gravity.
And loads of other subjects that would have previously attracted derision and scorn, not serious research grants, as they are today.
The posters on forums such as this (and other more theoretical physics orientated forums) have pretty much echoed what these academics have been
saying, as the 'repeaters' pretty much tend to do.
Then when the naysayers hear mainstream science have actually confirmed not only the existence of these elements, but the ability for mankind to
create them too, regardless of whether they exist for nanoseconds or full seconds before they decay into different elements, they say 'No one said it
was impossible' or words to that effect...ahem..really?
Where are all the people convinced that this research was bunk?
The same place as all the others that live in intellectual denial i suppose...left behind.
So, now it IS possible, we'll have very little in the way of arguments regarding the theory, but now what do we see in it's place?
Hmm..(humbug, humbug), OK (begrudge, begrudge, humbug), it's possible, (humbug, humbug) but it's not stable is it! (humbug) It could never (humbug,
humbug) be used for anything practical...moan, whine, whinge...AND repeat...and repeat..and repeat.
GIVE US A BREAK!
Let's argue the toss for the next decade or so whether or not it could ever be surrounded by a high EM toroid or plasma shroud and contained long
enough to be useful shall we?
And then when someone either figures out that we need to apply X and Y prior to the inclusion of B, or the alignment of the axial flange matrix and
resonant cavity and then fire nano pulse lasers converging onto the flux gate of the (insert imaginary discovery here) in order to stabilize the decay
rate into full seconds so they can be fed to a reactor to do work, we can argue about something else mainstream science wants repeated...can't we.
Skepticism is fine, as long as it doesn't become a way of life, or a career.
The real possibilities in science tend to be rubbished as a matter of course for these people, just because they feel they have a stance to
maintain.
They (IMO) are a dichotomy. They are for the most part educated, intelligent, witty (but very dry), articulate and eloquent people, but at the same
time, despite all of the positive qualities above, they are among the most shortsighted and unimaginative people i have ever met or read.
They seem incapable of reconciling the latest textbook revision with the latest theory and apparently do not posses the ability to think with the
'inner eye', to allow their minds the freedom of flight.
When the ET tech is made widely known and available, the arguments will probably switch to OK, they are here, but there is no proof that they have
been here for millenia (moan, begrudge, humbug), only a few decades (humbug)....A skeptic contributes nothing. Creates nothing and inspires no-one.
The real thinkers do that, in spite of them, and then progress is made.
