Recent content by gcthomas

So firebrand conservative Roy Moore lost out to Democrat Doug Jones in the Senate election in Alabama, leaving the GOP with a slim two seat majority in the Senate. A recount seems unlikely given the 1.5% margin. What do you think?

And partly to film the airframe during the descent, I expect. Useful of anything goes wrong.

Rocket exhaust gases behave differently in a vacuum compared to sea level pressures.

Yet it still has no basis in reality and the claimed proofs and confirmed 'predictions' are sheer fiction and uneducated fantasy. Walt knows very little about the science he pretends to use (from my point of view as a physicist) and so he must be either a charlatan of a fool. Then why suggest I...

No, I didn't. You just made that up.

The guy in the video has obviously never seen a hang-glider if he thinks that the Shuttle's wings are too short for gliding flight. Hasn't he ever made a paper dart and thrown it across the room? What shape are those wings?

Here is how the book presents itself: It is the most complete reference work I have encountered on the scientific aspects of the multifaceted subject of origins. At the same time it presents a comprehensive theoretical framework (his hydroplate theory) for reconciling the many seemingly...

I see no wrath. Just wry amusement at the contortions of the literalists.

I have done a number of times on ToL. It is a simple thing. Tell you what: Pick your favourite part of the book and I will refute is specially.

The Hydroplate "Theory" is the most incompetent attempt at explaining scientific observations that I have ever read, but the author is only aiming to convince uneducated people to buttress them against the the threats to faith that come from seeing the world as it is, as opposed to the world as...

Falling star is a synonym for shooting star. And the photo would look less suspect to you if you had any interest in actually going out and observing the world as it is. The meteoroids appear to radiate from a point due to perspective effects, like what you see as you drive in snow. The photo...

'Top' and 'Bottom' are conventions: you can consider them to be wherever you fancy and it makes not difference to the reality.

When comparing models, it is much more instructive to list what they do not have in common. 1. Basic Physics is observably different in the two models. One of them matches reality. Guess which one? 2. We don't need a second difference. The first one is fatal to the other models.

Refraction has been known about for over 400 years, so the answer to your question "Can we test it?" is most certainly 'yes, it has been tested and has been fully understood for a very long time'. How come you are so far behind the times? Don't you have access to the Internet?

Dave, were you home schooled by any chance? Did your school not teach physics? Or did you skip a lot? The answers to your questions involve the concepts that Isaac Newton wrote about in his book "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" published in 1687. Every child in every...