Thanks for the question,
Not to offend you or anything, you ask:
What would classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claims have to do
with physics?
What an excellent question, I would sure like to learn the answer to
that one. Until I have an acceptable answer I will assert this to be
how it is suppose to work. You assume my logic to be sound and
reasonable and we work from there.
It is impossible to transmute elements with ease in experiments
performed without the presence of extremely high temperatures
(millions of degrees K) or large acceleration voltages. For now
natural radioactivity and natural or artificial fission are the ONLY
exceptions. And we identified them as such right away back in the
days. (ehm)
It is impossible to obtain significant unexplained excess energy in
experiments with an input energy: All energetic balances in all
experiments must be explained by conventionally understood chemical
reactions, conventionally understood nuclear fission, natural
radioactivity, or conventionally understood nuclear fusion. If there
is any other reported significant excess energy in an experiment that
would suggest a new, unknown source of energy, these alleged
experiments and claimed processes are prima facie to be regarded as
mistakes, or worse. Such problematic editor may be banned from the
proverbial Wikipedia without warning.
There is no such thing as the unknown, at least not inside physics.
The validity of Special Relativity cannot be questioned legitimately.
It is such a well-checked theory that it has achieved the status of
Fact, not Theory. Space and time cannot exist separately. They are
entwined forever as “space-time.”
HALLELUJAH!
The validity of the fundamental structure of Quantum Mechanics cannot
be questioned legitimately. QM is open to many interpretations— The
Copenhagen interpretation, the Multi-Worlds hypothesis, etc., but QM’s
fundamental structure, as already revealed, is not open to revision at
its foundations.
You see? 1) unsubstantiated 2) erroneous AND 3) may not be questioned!
The so-called vacuum— a region of space-time, a plenum, that is devoid
of atoms and molecules and is seemingly “empty”— may be pervaded by
“Dark Matter,” “Dark Energy,” “electromagnetic radiation” and “quantum
fluctuations,” i.e. "zero"-point energy ("Z"PE). However, no table-top
experiment that has ever been performed can tap this vacuum and obtain
technologically useful energies.
Dark Matter comprises 30% of the substance of the universe and Dark
Energy comprises 65% of the universe!
Holly fucking universe!
The nature of these two cosmic constituents is entirely unknown— of
course, theories multiply about what they are— the Establishment has
the chutzpah to claim that a “Theory of Everything” is not far away
and that that theory will most likely be found in terra-electron volt
particle accelerators costing billions of dollars— and most certainly
never in cold fusion/LENR experiments.
The grand unification of science and pop culture — any moment now!
Gravitation is to be understood by General Relativity or its
derivatives— i.e. by the curvature of 4-dimensional space-time. No
other fundamental mode of understanding gravity can be allowed, and
certainly no theory of gravity that would allow anti-gravity to be
demonstrated easily in table-top experiments. Any such demonstration
would make the theory even less credible. This is most ironic because
Establishment physicists freely admit that two major foundation
paradigms to which they subscribe— Quantum Mechanics and General
Relativity— have not yet been shown to be compatible and have not been
unified in an acceptable manner to them. Any such attempt would be
blasphemy in it self.
unsubstantiated AND erroneous!
The Second Law of Thermodynamics can never be violated in macroscopic
systems. One cannot make a “Perpetual Motion Machine of the Second
Kind” that would convert ambient thermal energy to useful work, with
no heat rejection into a lower temperature reservoir.
All this wonderful hocus pocus physics, entirely free from science.
It gets even better in the small print!
Other exceptions may later be added to shift the goal post and make
sure the assertion is always correct.
Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claims may have exceptions but
never refutations.
The law dictates after Einstein any discussion will mature into the
Jesus topic. And lo~and~behold! Look how smooth the transition was.
I thank you for your time.
P.S.
Statements of fact in this posting are not up for debate but you may
have a fringe attempt at finding an exception. Where "fringe" means
"outside physics", where historically all the work gets done.
meanwhile I reserve the right to unfairly and unscientifically
prejudge everything you havent said acording to traditional physics
methodology.