Something like that…
While Oklahoma may geographically more resemble the Midwest (esp Kansas), it culturally and linguistically has much more in kin with the deep South.
Judging by one of my cousins, those aren’t mutually exclusive. (He self-treats his depression with electro shock, and has been working on a perpetual motion machine for over a decade.)
I’d like to propose a re-worked formula of the OP’s. Surface Vacuum * Planck’s Constant / intensity = Space-Time. Or:
Sh/i = t
OK - I give up - what’s the joke?
Back in 2001, there was a guy with a theory he wanted to us to believe - it had something to do with G=C*phi^n (see thread Has E=MC^2 been replaced by Gravity=Light*PHI^n? - Great Debates - Straight Dope Message Board) where G stood for gravity, c was the speed of light, phi was the golden ratio Golden ratio - Wikipedia and n is the number of times gravity waves recursed or something. How you use this equation to do anything but sound profound next to your blacklight posters and lava lamp was not explained.
“Itself” clearly remembered that thread and its similarity to this one, and he quoted the phi equation - which took me back in the sense of powerfully reminding me of the previous thread - but since neither that equation, nor the equations in this thread are explained clearly, they might as well be the equations that explain time travel
Jeezcrize, I remember that guy. It was so clear to him; he was frustrated that he couldn’t make us see it.
Still not as fun as the geyser theory of the Great Pyramid…
That was before my time here. But wow; that’s some weapons grade gibberish there. At least he was polite and earnest about it (at least as far in as I could stand to read him).
What a strange and probably miserable life it must be to have your head full of a maelstrom of nonsense like that.
Oh, yes. The geyser pyramid guy just went on and on and on. Impervious.
That was a great thread
I never saw that thread when it was fresh. For those who are curious as I was:
If I’ve searched rightly it’s this (locked) thread from 2014: How were the pyramids in Egypt built? - Great Debates - Straight Dope Message Board. The geyser guy is not the OP, but is cladking who makes his first appearance on page 3 post #104, but he quickly comes to dominate the discussion. The geyser part of his theory first appears on page 4 post #152. He was still going strong on page 50 post #2454 when the mod called King’s X.
His only other SD involvement was to post a “Goodbye and good riddance” thread to ATMB right after that. He’s not been seen since. One loonie down; 99,999,999 to go. Sigh.
Perhaps only 99,999,998, now that the OP seems to have exited stage left.
[nm]…
Thanks for the link. I had remembered that he had his own physics, chemistry, history, and weather, but had forgotten that he had his own linguistics, too. Admitted up front that he was untrained in any of it, but was convinced that everyone else was completely wrong.
That wasn’t the giant thread on the subject: this was.
I only sampled the thread (over 2000 posts!) but I see that he invented his own biology, too–when he said he was thinking with his gut, he literally meant that he was thinking with his gut.
I find it heartening to see that one tradition that has continued for at least 16 years is to stand up in the face of woo and quote Ralph Wiggam.
Wow, that is one deeeep rabbit-hole of crazy.
Thanks for posting that - I just grabbed the first phi-madness thread I could find, but clearly I didn’t dig deep enough.
Here’s a past thread from a poster with a hypothesis similar to the OP’s (space is a liquid, gravity is pressure!):
I’m sure there was another one more recently, but I can’t find it.
Plus this fucking lunatic who asked a question on a similar theme here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4364818
You can see the finished theory here: https://jforkum.wixsite.com/mantraphilter