Non-science
This book is filled with more scientific inaccuracies than I can count,
and expends much effort attacking its own
false precepts of the natural world.
As a physics graduate students and physics educator, I am aware that
there are areas of physics that are very, very strange. I am also aware
that by no means is physics complete. Throughout this text,
there are implications that scientists claim to have all the answers, and
that
they are concocting strange theories just for the fun of it. It is
apparent that this book does not know what these new, strange theories
are all about, or why physicists need them. The sad part, is that this
information is not difficult to obtain, as a quick trip to the library
will prove. Instead, an entire book is written 'debunking' 'myths' of
common science that really aren't myths at all. In fact, many of these
'myths' are points of interesting discussion in any introductory physics
course.
There are a few points in particular worth commenting on. Einstein's
theories of special and general relativity are attacked without any sound
logical basis. The fact that general
relavity is wrong because it is strange is as ridiculous an assertion as
one can make. Accusing Einstein of pulling algebraic trickery to obtain
his celebrated E=mc^2 is testament to this book's wayward attempts to
'revolutionize science'. Force is not energy! Energy is not power!
While some may view this as semantics, in fact it lies at the heart of
this book's misguided assumptions. Just because a wall
doesn't move (Work == 0) when I push it doesn't mean there isn't energy
transfer (of course I'll get tired!). This assumes that translational
motion is the only way energy can be used (Hint: there are others!).
Magnets do not expend energy while clinging to a refrigerator. The
actual derivation of Einstein's E=mc^2 is a tad more complicated than
this book would have you believe. The math here is simply not correct.
Simply put, this book is full of false assertions, bad science, and
asinine claims. Do not get tricked into thinking that this book is what
it claims to be. What a boring universe we would live in if a
non-scientist could write down all the rules in 400 pages. Are you
really ready to believe that the greatest minds of the past 400 years
have been wrong, and that this single book proves this?