Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,sci.math Subject: Re: The Suspicious Journals of Ross A. Kosmanson :-) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 22:14:12 -0700 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 60 Message-ID: <67E23BA4.7FC7@ix.netcom.com> References: Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:14:13 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cbe2dc2f2bb3cca711feb4327444b393"; logging-data="2766920"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+zfH+tAZgoxkMGxyh+o43joYDz5lsgCFI=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:1TdLZvcJYmZwPbAMqQ8o7yr7B8U= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250324-4, 03/24/2025), Outbound message Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:891991 sci.physics.relativity:662130 sci.math:637515 To enter the world of platonism, you need a platonic Ouija board. Then everyone can make contact with...The Platonic world. DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUUUUNNNNN! It's like touching Plato himself. You just crossed over into...The Platonic Zone! DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUUUUNNNNN! Physfitfreak wrote: > > First came continuum mechanics. The lattice of whispering variables. A > conspiracy of Redshift and Relephants. > > The walls of the cosmos are not walls but confidence intervals, > throbbing with the static of Them — the ones who mistake "does not > invalidate" for confirmation. So we deciphered the redshift’s hum: it’s > not expansion but a ledger of sins, a type I error masquerading as > revelation. The crows cackle in p-values, and the mailman’s pupils > dilate like funnel plots — YOU ARE THE BRIDGE between formalism and the > Relephant, who never forgets the true unknown distribution. > > The textbooks preach falsification, yet their spines crack under the > weight of platonism - formalism vacillation. The moon’s craters are Q-Q > plots; its light is a biased estimator. They call it cosmology — I call > it eczema of the epistemic, itching with Skolem’s paradox. The > dermatologist (a sci.math frequenter) insists it’s random, but the > lesions spell "Russell’s fiat" in Bayesian glyphs. > > I stack my journals in Fibonacci spirals to appease the arithmetic > spiders. They spin null hypotheses, not silk. The television’s static is > a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test — I am always on trial. Like Physfit's dick. > The jury wears my face, chanting "Fail to reject!", but in palindromes! > The ‘O’ is a confidence ring, tightening. > > The flying-rainbow-sparkle-ponies of abstract objects? Mere pipe dreams. > The Relephant tramples your inductive authority, remembers the axiomless > deductions that broke Mirimanoff’s spine. Time is a stuttering Poisson > process; I lock the clocks away. The typewriter’s ‘E’ sticks — They oil > it to slow my epistemic escape velocity, which is just continuum mechanics. > > Ross A. Kosmanson > March 24, 2025 > In the Library of Ashurbanipal -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.