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{{Infobox paper | {{Infobox paper | ||
| title = Collider Folly | | title = Collider Folly | ||
| url = [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511234806/http://www.wbabin.net/physics/vergon13.pdf Link to paper (Internet Archive)] | |||
| author = [[Vertner Vergon]] | | author = [[Vertner Vergon]] | ||
| published = 2008 | | published = 2008 | ||
| journal = [[General Science Journal]] | | journal = [[General Science Journal]] | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Read the full paper''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511234806/http://www.wbabin.net/physics/vergon13.pdf here] ''(archived copy — the original link is no longer available)'' | |||
==Abstract== | ==Abstract== | ||
Recall New Year, 2000? Everybody was excited about the arrival of “the new millennium”. Advertising on TV was full of it, so was radio and the print media as well as the general populace. “The new millennium, the new millennium, the new millennium” – that’s all you heard. The only trouble was, the year 2000 was NOT the start of the new millennium but the end of the old. The new millennium starts with the year 2001. Was everybody wrong? You bet. Has “everybody” been wrong before? Yup. What about the flat earth, or Ptolemy’s epicycles, or the earth as the center of the universe? We might also mention phlogiston and the luminiferous aether (There are poor souls still hanging on to that one as well as mass-less photons).[[Category:Scientific Paper]] | Recall New Year, 2000? Everybody was excited about the arrival of “the new millennium”. Advertising on TV was full of it, so was radio and the print media as well as the general populace. “The new millennium, the new millennium, the new millennium” – that’s all you heard. The only trouble was, the year 2000 was NOT the start of the new millennium but the end of the old. The new millennium starts with the year 2001. Was everybody wrong? You bet. Has “everybody” been wrong before? Yup. What about the flat earth, or Ptolemy’s epicycles, or the earth as the center of the universe? We might also mention phlogiston and the luminiferous aether (There are poor souls still hanging on to that one as well as mass-less photons). | ||
[[Category:Scientific Paper|collider folly]] | |||
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| Scientific Paper | |
|---|---|
| Title | Collider Folly |
| Read in full | Link to paper (Internet Archive) |
| Author(s) | Vertner Vergon |
| Published | 2008 |
| Journal | General Science Journal |
Read the full paper here (archived copy — the original link is no longer available)
Abstract
Recall New Year, 2000? Everybody was excited about the arrival of “the new millennium”. Advertising on TV was full of it, so was radio and the print media as well as the general populace. “The new millennium, the new millennium, the new millennium” – that’s all you heard. The only trouble was, the year 2000 was NOT the start of the new millennium but the end of the old. The new millennium starts with the year 2001. Was everybody wrong? You bet. Has “everybody” been wrong before? Yup. What about the flat earth, or Ptolemy’s epicycles, or the earth as the center of the universe? We might also mention phlogiston and the luminiferous aether (There are poor souls still hanging on to that one as well as mass-less photons).