An interesting email I received from Mr Mayer:
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Originally Posted by Alexander Mayer Dear friends and colleagues,
As most of you have noticed, my Stanford Website has been down for about a week now. There is a new website that went up this morning with URL
afmayer.net
You can learn about what happened at this new Website.
As I am sure you are aware, my scientific work can be perceived as damaging to the careers of a number of scientists and also as a threat to their sources of public funding (your tax dollars). It can be anticipated that, at least in the short term, there will be enormous social and political pressures to “bury” my work for as long as possible. One person I spoke to said that it would be about 15 years! Because of people like you, I don’t think it will really take that long. My Website logs showed about 100,000 downloads in the three days between the Slashdot article coming out and the termination of my computing privileges at Stanford. Science is a beautiful thing, for it appeals only to the ultimate authority; correct scientific ideas are self-evident in the face of objective empirical inquiry.
Most of you are probably familiar with the concept of a signal-to-noise ratio. In order for a signal to be received, either it has to be amplified above the noise threshold or the noise threshold needs to be reduced below the signal. As concerns information, we live in a very ‘noisy’ world today and it is not possible to reduce that noise threshold. The only way to punch through is to amplify your signal well above that significantly high noise threshold. If you believe that my ideas are worthy of serious consideration by the scientific community and by the public who funds most scientific research, then start campaigning for discussion to take place. Help me amplify my signal.
The immediate practical need is Internet bandwidth. I need to establish a number of global mirrors at various institutions with fast unlimited bandwidth so that the information contained in my lectures is readily and expediently available to anyone who wants it.
In addition to my lectures, I have added a brief new paper on the subject of energy, quantum mechanics and gravitation. It is an extremely bold thesis and I cannot say that I have the same level of confidence in it at this time as in my other ideas, because there is as yet no empirical evidence to back it up. However, the ideas have exciting potential and ‘feel’ right. I have proposed an experiment to prove me wrong, if that is indeed the case.
Thank you for your interest and support,
Alexander Mayer
amayer@alum.mit.edu |
As stated in the email, Mr Mayer's URL is now
www.afmayer.net so I will update the starting post with the new reference. The reason why Mr Mayer's original Stanford website was discontinued is explained
here.
Please remember to start a new thread when you comment on the lectures. I'll be moving some of the posts in this thread to new threads later today. Be sure and download the lectures if you haven't already done so.
--Robert