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Nothing Is As It Appears, It s All Smoken Mirrors: A Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Chronicle of Coverup and Conspiracy
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March 24, 2014
This is really - REALLY - a bad book.
Spoiler alert (well, it is hard to spoil tripe like this, but none-the-less...):
It looks like it was self-published, and there was no editing. The author is very fond of underlines! but doesn't know where to start and stop them. There are outright fallacies - one example is on page 137, where he states, 'Astronomers say there are over two million starts in the"Milky Way" alone.' No, no they don't. Even a fourth grade student would have been tasked to a higher standard. A simple search shows that the estimate is more like between 100 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy; between 50,000 to 200,000 times more than he states. Similarly, where he states that our galaxy has "1,800 planets"; current theory places that number as high or higher than the number of stars.
Page 156, where he talks about gravity, again, he shows his ignorance. What he calls"Gravity A" is not like gravity at all. The force that holds the "nucleus together with the protons and neutrons" is not gravity or like gravity. It is the Strong force, which is very strong over very short ranges, while Gravity is very weak, but works over infinite ranges. Oh, yes, the nucleus is not held with the protons and neutrons; the nucleus is the collection of neutrons and protons.
The concept of gravity waves being able to be manipulated has no basis in science. Oscilloscopes do not, as he says, amplify radio waves; they are observational instruments. He states that "...element #115 is not indigenous to planet earth....we have not been able to synthesize it". Ununpentium is the temporary name of a synthetic superheavy element, symbol Uup, with atomic number 115.
Again, an example of bad research and/or editing, page 165, the United States has a "population of 300,000 million". That is 300 billion. That would be, what, nearly 43,000 times the current global population of 7 billion.
Lastly, no hydrogen bomb or sets of such ordinance could possibly affect the rotation of the Earth on it's axis. Something the size of our Moon could do so, but if an object of that size hit the Earth, believe me, the tilt of the axis would be the least of our worries.
Save your money. Save your time. Save your dinner.
Spoiler alert (well, it is hard to spoil tripe like this, but none-the-less...):
It looks like it was self-published, and there was no editing. The author is very fond of underlines! but doesn't know where to start and stop them. There are outright fallacies - one example is on page 137, where he states, 'Astronomers say there are over two million starts in the"Milky Way" alone.' No, no they don't. Even a fourth grade student would have been tasked to a higher standard. A simple search shows that the estimate is more like between 100 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy; between 50,000 to 200,000 times more than he states. Similarly, where he states that our galaxy has "1,800 planets"; current theory places that number as high or higher than the number of stars.
Page 156, where he talks about gravity, again, he shows his ignorance. What he calls"Gravity A" is not like gravity at all. The force that holds the "nucleus together with the protons and neutrons" is not gravity or like gravity. It is the Strong force, which is very strong over very short ranges, while Gravity is very weak, but works over infinite ranges. Oh, yes, the nucleus is not held with the protons and neutrons; the nucleus is the collection of neutrons and protons.
The concept of gravity waves being able to be manipulated has no basis in science. Oscilloscopes do not, as he says, amplify radio waves; they are observational instruments. He states that "...element #115 is not indigenous to planet earth....we have not been able to synthesize it". Ununpentium is the temporary name of a synthetic superheavy element, symbol Uup, with atomic number 115.
Again, an example of bad research and/or editing, page 165, the United States has a "population of 300,000 million". That is 300 billion. That would be, what, nearly 43,000 times the current global population of 7 billion.
Lastly, no hydrogen bomb or sets of such ordinance could possibly affect the rotation of the Earth on it's axis. Something the size of our Moon could do so, but if an object of that size hit the Earth, believe me, the tilt of the axis would be the least of our worries.
Save your money. Save your time. Save your dinner.
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