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The Crackpot Index
Retrieved from http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

A simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics:


 * 1) A -5 point starting credit.
 * 2) 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false.
 * 3) 2 points for every statement that is clearly vacuous.
 * 4) 3 points for every statement that is logically inconsistent.
 * 5) 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful correction.
 * 6) 5 points for using a thought experiment that contradicts the results of a widely accepted real experiment.
 * 7) 5 points for each word in all capital letters (except for those with defective keyboards).
 * 8) 5 points for each mention of "Einstien", "Hawkins" or "Feynmann".
 * 9) 10 points for each claim that quantum mechanics is fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).
 * 10) 10 points for pointing out that you have gone to school, as if this were evidence of sanity.
 * 11) 10 points for beginning the description of your theory by saying how long you have been working on it. (10 more for emphasizing that you worked on your own.)
 * 12) 10 points for mailing your theory to someone you don't know personally and asking them not to tell anyone else about it, for fear that your ideas will be stolen.
 * 13) 10 points for offering prize money to anyone who proves and/or finds any flaws in your theory.
 * 14) 10 points for each new term you invent and use without properly defining it.
 * 15) 10 points for each statement along the lines of "I'm not good at math, but my theory is conceptually right, so all I need is for someone to express it in terms of equations".
 * 16) 10 points for arguing that a current well-established theory is "only a theory", as if this were somehow a point against it.
 * 17) 10 points for arguing that while a current well-established theory predicts phenomena correctly, it doesn't explain "why" they occur, or fails to provide a "mechanism".
 * 18) 10 points for each favorable comparison of yourself to Einstein, or claim that special or general relativity are fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).
 * 19) 10 points for claiming that your work is on the cutting edge of a "paradigm shift".
 * 20) 20 points for emailing me and complaining about the crackpot index. (E.g., saying that it "suppresses original thinkers" or saying that I misspelled "Einstein" in item 8.)
 * 21) 20 points for suggesting that you deserve a Nobel prize.
 * 22) 20 points for each favorable comparison of yourself to Newton or claim that classical mechanics is fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).
 * 23) 20 points for every use of science fiction works or myths as if they were fact.
 * 24) 20 points for defending yourself by bringing up (real or imagined) ridicule accorded to your past theories.
 * 25) 20 points for naming something after yourself. (E.g., talking about the "The Evans Field Equation" when your name happens to be Evans.)
 * 26) 20 points for talking about how great your theory is, but never actually explaining it.
 * 27) 20 points for each use of the phrase "hidebound reactionary".
 * 28) 20 points for each use of the phrase "self-appointed defender of the orthodoxy".
 * 29) 30 points for suggesting that a famous figure secretly disbelieved in a theory which he or she publicly supported. (E.g., that Feynman was a closet opponent of special relativity, as deduced by reading between the lines in his freshman physics textbooks.)
 * 30) 30 points for suggesting that Einstein, in his later years, was groping his way towards the ideas you now advocate.
 * 31) 30 points for claiming that your theories were developed by an extraterrestrial civilization (without good evidence).
 * 32) 30 points for allusions to a delay in your work while you spent time in an asylum, or references to the psychiatrist who tried to talk you out of your theory.
 * 33) 40 points for comparing those who argue against your ideas to Nazis, stormtroopers, or brownshirts.
 * 34) 40 points for claiming that the "scientific establishment" is engaged in a "conspiracy" to prevent your work from gaining its well-deserved fame, or suchlike.
 * 35) 40 points for comparing yourself to Galileo, suggesting that a modern-day Inquisition is hard at work on your case, and so on.
 * 36) 40 points for claiming that when your theory is finally appreciated, present-day science will be seen for the sham it truly is. (30 more points for fantasizing about show trials in which scientists who mocked your theories will be forced to recant.)
 * 37) 50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no concrete testable predictions.

© 1998 John Baez

BlackLight Power, Inc
Retrieved from http://www.blacklightpower.com/index.shtml on 17.7.09 © BlackLight Power

BlackLight Power Inc. is the inventor of a paradigm-shifting new primary energy source and a new field of hydrogen chemistry with broad commercial applications. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Millsian Inc. is dedicated to developing computational chemical design technology based on The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics (GUT-CP), a revolutionary approach to solving atomic and molecular structures. The Millsian Software Version 1.0 is now available.

New Energy Source
BlackLight has invented a new primary energy source with applications to heating, distributed power generation, central power generation, and motive power based on a new chemical process of releasing the latent energy of the hydrogen atom, the BlackLight Process. In this process, the electron in an ordinary hydrogen atom is induced to move closer to the proton, below the prior-known ground state to form more stable hydrogen atoms called hydrinos. The large energy released exceeds that required to extract hydrogen from water, such that water may serve as the hydrogen fuel source for the process.

BlackLight's experimental results are published widely and have been replicated by independent groups. The process, apparatus and compositions of matter are covered by patents pending and issued. BlackLight will license companies for the commercialization of our technologies as we continue to develop new technologies related to the BlackLight Process.

Molecular Modeling
Millsian software is a powerful molecular modeling tool built on The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics (GUT-CP), a revolutionary approach to solving atomic and molecular structures. The software can build exact 3D structures, precisely calculate the total bond energy, and the heat of formation of almost all organic molecules and the major classes of compounds. By contrast, previous software based on traditional quantum methods must resort to approximations for even the simplest systems. The Millsian software is an invaluable tool for research chemists.

Specialty Chemicals
The BlackLight Process releases heat energy and generates valuable chemicals. The lower-energy atomic hydrogen products can be used to form novel hydrino hydride compounds (HHCs), and constitute a vast class of new chemistry with broad commercial applications. BlackLight is researching microelectronics applications, diamond films, batteries for portable electronics, and energetic propellants.

Lighting and Lasers
In an embodiment, the BlackLight Process forms a plasma (a hot, glowing, ionized gas) which also represents a new primary light source. Further, the process produces a new inert form of hydrogen gas that may serve in applications such as the medium for a new high energy laser.