Do you know James Randi?
Offered 1 mio Dollar but money was never fetched
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge
The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was an offer by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) to pay out one million U.S. dollars to anyone who could demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. A version of the challenge was first issued in 1964. Over a thousand people applied to take it, but none were successful. The challenge was terminated in 2015
Offered 1 mio Dollar but money was never fetched
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge
The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge was an offer by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) to pay out one million U.S. dollars to anyone who could demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. A version of the challenge was first issued in 1964. Over a thousand people applied to take it, but none were successful. The challenge was terminated in 2015
As EEs we have to deal with it all the time. The relationship between an antenna's length and its resonant frequency is highly dependent on the propagation velocity along the line. Same thing for stub-tuned transmission lines. You want to sell your own brand of snake oil to unwary readers, or try to get things right?
The quote doesn't turn up a link to Feynman in google search. Do you have a link?
Probably he was thinking of “I think I can safely say that nobody really understands quantum mechanics”
I met James Randi in the 90ies and he showed an unbelievable trick.
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/01/magicians-skeptics-share-their-memories-of-james-randi/
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/01/magicians-skeptics-share-their-memories-of-james-randi/
James Randi was my buddy, I was featured in five count ‘em of his weekly newsletters. blush! A friend of mine was in the process of negotiating the million dollar challenge for the Intelligent Chip with Kramer of Butthole Surfers fame but negotiations broke down. Michael Fremer of Stereophile magazine was also a target of king of pseudo skeptics for million dollar challenge for high end cables but that didn’t work out either.
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Pity didn t work out for the cables!
He showed a trick with "cold reading". You cannot understand how he did it
He showed a trick with "cold reading". You cannot understand how he did it
Yes, refraction. The refractive index is determined by the difference in the speed of light of two media. Air and glass in the case of my glasses.
This thread is entertaining.
I think it all comes down to the fact you can improve the quality of any product by doubling its price.
I think it all comes down to the fact you can improve the quality of any product by doubling its price.
Maybe, but sales may also fall by more than that ratio. It depends on what people expect to pay for something of a given quality (aka, the Anchor).
https://www.scribbr.com/research-bi...tendency,anchor, to make subsequent judgments.
https://www.scribbr.com/research-bi...tendency,anchor, to make subsequent judgments.
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No PM's please. Pats on the back are more effective.
If you disagree, better to keep it to yourself.
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