The Yun-Qi Kingdom
The Yun-Qi Kingdom (http://www.yun-qi.com/)
Easter colors are preferred in the Yun-Qi Kingdom
“When the new millennium begins, a great NEW KINGDOM also comes. It marks the END of SCIENCE. —— No matter whether you believe or not, no matter if you want or not, this is already a fact, and will definitely become the reality in the very near future. “
This one is my personal favorite. I’m certainly biased, as back in physics grad school, I got my very own personal yun-qi kingdom email from this guy, urging me to join his cause. You’ve got to admire the gumption of emailing not only a few famous professors, but the entire physics department, underling students and all. I wonder if he ran his equations by the janitors…
He states that the force a particle feels from a fixed electrical field is not fixed, but proportional to its velocity. Relativity theory differs from your standard classical mechanics only very subtly at normal everyday speeds, and is only noticeable at high velocities. For the physics-inclined, you tend to see the quantity (1 – v2 / c2) pop up in the equations of motion — if v, the particle’s velocity, is mucho smaller than c, the speed of light, then the quantity (1 – v2 / c2) gets really really close to 1. So for low speeds, that little factor almost completely disappears, and the equations of motion look really really similar to the classical Newton’s equations of motion.
His contradiction of relativity seems to center on him moving the term (1 – v2 / c2) around — instead of popping up alongside time, or distance, he shoves it up against force — basically he claims that what we think of as the curving of spacetime is really from velocity-dependent changes in force. This ain’t nowhere near what Einstein derived, but he throws enough math around to make it look official. My guess is that this amounts to a big mathematical trick, though there’s no way I’m checking all his math to be sure. Just an example:
The “number” dorb is a very special “number”. Though it looks like zero, but it is NOT a zero. Though it looks like a non-zero number, but it is also NOT a non-zero number. So, we can not use today’s normal ways to treat “number” dorb.
The what now?
To his credit, several times he brings up an issue that most grand-theory amateurs avoid — he discusses ways that his theory differs from Relativity, and proposes experiments that would illustrate the difference. If you throw some charged particles into a magnetic field, he says, his theory will predict a somewhat different velocity than Dr. Einstein’s theory would predict. Do the experiment, measure the velocity, and we’ll see who’s right. He’s got the approach completely right — if you come up with a theory, it’s up to you to test it in the lab — does it predict the right answer to an experiment? The fact that he even proposes concrete examples which could easily disprove his theory puts him a notch above the usual grand-theory yokels in my book..
So how does he score?
1. Terrible english: “There exists NO relativity, and the whole theories of the relativity are totally artificially man-made.” Artificially man made? Eh? In his defense, he’s probably a non-native english speaker. Though plenty of american-born-and-raised cranks sound about this bad. I give him a 6 out of 10.
2. All Science Is WRONG: He’s targeting modern physics (specifically relativity), and boy oh boy does he think it’s wrong. An absolute masterpiece of incorrect physical theory. A definite 10 out of 10.
All joking aside, the conclusion of the Yun-Qi kingdom webpage is concerning...
3. Irritated, emotional language: You can see the psychological toll his struggle against mainstream physics has had on him as you scroll down the page — what starts with emotional pleading to give his theory a chance eventually turns ominous toward the bottom. By the end I’m definitely creeped out. 10 out of 10.
4. One extremely long and ugly webpage: Yes yes yes, it’s all here except the blinking text. (Mr. Qi, can I call you Yun? I highly recommend blinking text for your next website redesign. Preferably using easy-to-read font colors, like red on orange.) A 6 out of 10.
5. Completely new definitions: He’s got new terms — terms and terms and terms. Tons of redefinitions of standard physics terms, completely new formulas and symbols, most of which have absolutely hilarious names. “Eed”? “Weq”? My favorite is the “dorb”. Towards the end of his thesis (which you can download from his site), he starts to use playing-card symbols, like the club and the spade, as mathematical symbols. I don’t even know how to make those symbols on the computer keyboard… For that, a nine out of ten.
His grand total? A 41 out of a possible 50. Not bad, Yun-Qi, not bad. I think you’re the leader in the clubhouse…
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