From the back files of the National Liar:
Dry Wells in Science
This is a partial and messy list of dry wells, diversions, illusions, fantasies, follies and distractions in the history of science and its fiction.
Proof of Consistency of Complete Formalist Math
Laplacian Predictor
Clockwork World System
Straight-edge and compass constructions:
Trisecting the angle
Doubling the cube
Squaring the circle
Proof of Parallel Postulate
Pythagorean Math:
Rational root of 2
Rational pi
Numerology
Gematria
True names
Similarity and Contagion
Orgone
Vril
Kundalini
Eloptic radiation
N-rays
Morphogenetic fields
Perpetual Motion:
Schadewald Gravity Engine
Energy Wheel
Sthenometer
Unbalanced surge propulsion:
Dean Drive
Tractor and Pressor Beams
Psionics: Hieronymous device
Extracting energy from waste heat:
Maxwell’s Demon
Ptolemaic cosmos:
Crystalline spheres and Epicycles
Music of the Spheres
Absolute space and time
Feasibility of exact weather prediction and control
Continuous Creation
Adeledicnandar: electron psychology
Philosopher’s Stone
Alkahest
Phlogiston
Thiotimoline
Corbomite
Cavorite
Polywater
Ylem
Luminiferous Ether
Bohr Atom: mini-solar-system atom
Multi-level matter; inhabited electrons
Velikovskian Planetary Dynamics
Planet Vulcan
Mercury’s moon Caduceus
Venus’s moon Neith
Earth’s 2nd moon, Lilith
Counter-Earth
Planet Phaeton
Planet Nibiru
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