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>I'm just curious. I had started reading this group about a week back.
>I was very suprised to see the number of cranks posting here. People
>claiming rediuclous things like Einstein made some basic math errors
>that even they, untrained as they are, can spot and yet no
>one(including thousands upon thousand of highly trained people) have
>spotted it in all these years until now (LMAO==). People with bizarre
==
>misconceptions about various theories. Many of them unable to do even
>the most basic of math.

>Is there some agenda these folks are pushing ? Or are they just random
>stupid(or ignorant), crazy people?


>Note: Now please, no posts from the cranks on this thread. I am not
>interested in another flame war there are enough in the group already.
>So don't promote your pet bizzarro land theory here since I have most
>likely already read it another thread.


Well Vince,
  This is my personal experience.

  When i was at Rutgers, this one professor called me delusional for
my ideas. However, the same idea, when i tried to explain to
Bushnell/Agarwal, they thought i was brillant and let me do research
with them.

Dr. Bushnell won the Young American Presidental Investigator
Scholarship and is also a senior member of the IEEE.

Dr. Agarwal is both an ACM/IEEE fellow ( an award shared by a select
few in the world).

 The same was with my ideas on physics. When i tried to explain myself
to this one physics prof, he thought i was completely wack. Whereas,
this other professor(affilated with Los Alamos) was extremely willing
and thought my insights were worthwhile.

 Moreover, I personally know programmers who are mentally ill, and
others, who take halluciganic drugs, who are execellent coders.
Excellent coders as in sense that their programs were extremely
stable, had almost no bugs in them and were extremely brillantly
designed. So, it makes you wonder how an insane person can be so
logical.

 It has been my observation that even though these people are legally
insane, they still can function perfectly within a garbage in, garbage
out system, as in writting a program. Theorectical Physics is not such
a system. And most cranks/crackpots do not have tools to try their
ideas and see if they actually work. Moreoever, academics shun away
the cranks and crackpots ideas and theories, only worsening the
situation.

As a matter of statistics, 1% of the world suffers from severe mental
disorder. Then ask yourself, how many times in the news, you hear
insane people, jumping off their windows, thinking that they could
fly. Most cranks/crackpots who post here and other places also hold
day jobs. And think of how they happen to survive, being a complete
loon.

It's really, when you work things out, with enough reinforcement,
delusional and completely wack people, can function just as 'normally'
as sane people.

-suresh