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by DontSignAnytng 825 days ago
Many physicists have dismissed BLP’s theories as incompatible with established principles of physics. The concept of hydrinos, for example, contradicts the known laws of quantum mechanics, which are well-supported by experimental evidence. Critics argue that BLP’s approach contains mathematical errors and unjustified assumptions. There have also been allegations of portions of Mills’ work being copied from other texts without proper attribution. Despite BLP’s claims of breakthroughs and imminent commercialization, the company has faced significant challenges in gaining acceptance from the scientific community and in securing patents. The theory has not been independently verified, and there is widespread doubt about the viability of the technology proposed by BLP
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Sounds like pseudoskepticism to me.

> incompatible with established principles of physics.

Appeal to tradition

> contradicts the known laws of quantum mechanics, which are well-supported by experimental evidence.

Saying it doesn't make it so.

> mathematical errors

This one I approve of if demonstrated. It does seem odd for people to keep saying that for 2 decades while the research progresses. It requires demonstration.

> unjustified assumptions

You can have as wild an hypothesis as you like.

> copied from other texts

grasping at straws

> claims of breakthroughs...

poor claims of refutation!

> ....and imminent commercialization

haha, yes! he has been claiming this for decades and continues to do so. There are even contracts with utility companies from what I understand.

> the company has faced significant challenges in gaining acceptance from the scientific community

How did we end up here? I thought it was simply in violation of well-established experimental evidence, rife with mathematical errors, assumptions, plagiarism, false claims, etc etc? How do we get from all that to gaining acceptance?

> not independently verified

Wait, does that mean that all of the hit pieces, all of the moaning and all of the HOAX screaming littered all over the web is not actually based on anything?

Let me get this straight, so we are burning our world to a crisp, trying to ban food production and energy usage to save our precious environment. People cant pay their energy bills. Everything we consume and do seems to be made from energy primarily.

Then there is a privately funded research project, 20 years ongoing, burned 140 m euro. But we are sure non of it is real based on nonsense clap trap rather than verification? ~Woah!~

It works like this: There are things you know to be true, things you know to be false and then there are things you just don't know. If Undefined evaluates as false there is something wrong with your code. I don't believe a word Mills says but that isn't the same as knowing he is wrong.

Please don't post unattributed copied and pasted LLM outputs here. That's not what I come to HN to read
The training data comes from here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Brilliant_Light_Power/Arc...

20 years worth of Wikipedia gate keeping. On the up side one can read how the sausage is made. For negative statements the uneducated troll Eric Krieg is a suitable source. For positive statements no peer journal is good enough.

2005

> Dr. Mills was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Chemistry, summa cum laude in 1982, and a Doctor of Medicine Degree from Harvard Medical School in 1986. Why are you guys so reticent to accept the degrees of genuine researchers,

2016

> Trends Journal : after completing his medical studies in three years, Mills spent a fourth year at MIT investigating electrical engineering.

> > Where did The Trends Journal (TTJ) get Mills' MIT background?

2024, Mills still doesn't have any professional training (according to wikipedia)

The LLM's must be full of this garbage.