Randell Mills and Hydrinos
Randell Mills and Hydrinos (http://www.hydrino.org/)
I am immediately disappointed by any pseudophysics crackpot whose website is nicer than mine, because while it is admittedly not hard for a normal person to whip up a better-designed site than TimeBlimp.com, it should be clear that the people behind these websites are NOT NORMAL. By and large, their websites usually are the worst-looking, most disorganized webpages you’ll ever come across that aren’t intentional parodies. Reasoning that the external motif of a person’s webpage is a direct reflection of their internal mind state, any physics crackpot with a logically-designed, modern-looking website is ipso facto not going to be an entertaining nut job with spectacularly strange pronouncements. If the website doesn’t look like it’s using HTML design circa 1995 (remember <blink>? These people certainly do), it probably won’t also contain subtly violent diatribes against Einstein. I’ve found two websites connected to Hydrino theory, and neither of them look like crap. Disappointing. Hydrino.org seems to be the place to go for the skinny on what the theory is, while Blacklightpower.com is some sort of commercial venture spinoff.
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The central theory put forth by Dr. Randell Mills is called the Grand Unified Theory of Classical Quantum Mechanics, or GUT-CQM. I admire the ambition, but I’m not crazy about the acronym. Doesn’t have a good ring to it when you say it phonetically. The Hydrino.org website advertises itself as an independent users group dedicated to critical discussion of the theory, but they seem pretty solidly on Mills’ side. Check out the cover of Mills’ book, found on the main page at Hydrino.org — I’m not sure what it’s depicting, but to me this guy looks like he’s taking a CQM to the GUT. Actually, I should be nicer — these guys hosting the discussion at Hydrinos.org seem pretty reasonable, and don’t need a jerk like me to butt in on their serious discussion. Then again, I just advertised Mills’ book for them for free, so maybe they’ll have a sense of humor about it.
Let’s CQM over to the scores:
1. Terrible english: All I can say to that is, HydriNO! Get it? Wow, that was terrible. One out of ten.
2. All Science Is WRONG: Nah, compared to the typical pseudo physicist we review, this theory is relatively narrow in focus. Since they’re apparently trying to make a go at a commercial venture, they can’t get too crazy. Two out of ten.
3. Irritated, emotional language: Nope-arooni. With an (apparently) functioning business to run, they probably can’t afford to throw around ominous threats or attack their critics. With some pages, you can practically feel the author’s eye tick, but no, these guys are cool as ranch dressing on celery. One out of ten.
4. One extremely long and ugly webpage: Nope. These just might be the very best webpages in my entire survey. They’re good looking, organized, conventional, clearly the work of professional webpage designers. What this tells us is that they have enough money to pay webpage designers. Hmm, and we at TimeBlimp don’t, in fact, have enough money to do this. What’s that you say? You couldn’t tell? Oh, sorry, I misheard you — you can tell. Alright, alright, don’t rub it in… One out of ten.
5. Completely new definitions: Nah, can’t really find much. There probably are a few, but they keep them hidden so the stockholders don’t sweat. One out of ten.
His grand total? Six. Six? Really? I have a sneaking suspicion that if I were to rate my own website, I might score higher than these guys have…
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