Recent content by starfractal

Science is easy, people are hard.

Sheesh. Can we just concentrate on objective reality please? I've been around long enough to be able to present every one of our elite and pure institutions--journals or otherwise-- as being fallible. If you want to pick on one, you need to pick on all. There's a BIG world out there besides PRL...

My pleasure. Ad Astra per Aspera.

Actually that is not always true. And the Nobels have a very murky history on properly awarding 'inventions' in their defined 'discovery and inventions' mission. Dr. Ray Damaidian is a more recent example: he invented the first MRI and they gave the Medicine and Physiology Prize to his...

Post #3 states facts not boast. No one is taking up brass here. Starfractal is a person. I am a physicist. I have posted elsewhere on the forum saying who I am. I am in a position to deny your conjectorial statement and am doing so. Statements of fact are more than compelling in correcting...

Then again, in the absence of data to support your statement, Ockham's Razor says 'starfractal' published a statement of record to make sure the facts are face-forward. You speculation on motive is false. Starfractal is correcting you on that. Schurig, Pendry and Smith did not 'invent the...

Michael Berry is more than deserving. IMO he is the likely pick of three. In addition to his 'phases' work he has undertaken several new avenues in physics. For me that is most notable for his work in 'diffractals' ( diffraction on fractals).

See for example: https://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/23631-wideband-omnidirectional-microwave-cloaking

Many thanks:-) Some here may know me as W1YW.

The 'welcome' email suggests posting a 'hello', so here it is--- I’m Nathan “Chip” Cohen, an astrophysicist, inventor, and longtime applied scientist. My scientific roots go back to Cornell, where I earned my astrophysics Ph.D. in 1985, working on gravitational lensing and VLBI arrays, with...

Pendry, Smith an Alu are being touted as potential Nobel Prize winners based, in no small part, on the alleged metamaterial invention of the invisibility cloak. This focuses back to the Nov 2006 Science paper on same. However, that device failed as an invisibility cloak and did not hide the...