User talk:Pallen

I have used the following IP addresses before registering:

209.6.255.15
38.113.0.254

Einstein/Poincaré dispute

Thanks for adding your new signature to the Einstein/Poincaré dispute. Now that you're officially registered, welcome! The Rod 20:08, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Licorne/Mamas and alt.cosmology

can you tell me where to find his postings there? Google groups couldn't find his postings by searcing for his name.... I'm collecting tidbits.... --Alvestrand 16:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Minkowski space-time animations

Hi Pallen,

I saw your comment in the thread between Harald88 and me on Harald's Talk page.

Please check out my Sandbox article about Minkowski space-time. That Sandbox article is not meant as a precursor to a wikipedia article, it's purpose is to show other wikipedians how I understand Minkowski space-time.

I'm having trouble finding people who agree with me. Unfortunately, Physics is a branch of human endeavour where belief systems play a very important role. I have encountered an amazing variety of beliefs systems on the wikipedia physics talk pages. --Cleonis | Talk 21:38, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reflections on Kevin Brown

Hi Pallen,

You wrote on my Talk page:

Interesting. I'm 35 years removed from when I was seriously studying physics, yet I find Kevin Brown's math pages on the subject beatiful and clear; nagging questions other sources don't answer are dealt with head on - I think that's what I like, in particular. I don't know that they are reasonble to first study relativity from, or a reasonable model for wikipedia articles, but they certainly seem reasonable as a web reference on points we may want to cover. --Pallen 04:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin Brown is my main source of information about relativistic physics. However, Kevin Brown's articles are not peer-reviewed articles, so they are less suitable as formal references. And in some respects Kevin Brown is quite a maverick.

Personally, I put complete trust in Kevin Brown, his clarity and depth are without parallel. I am puzzled though, by the contrast between the self-confidence in his articles, and his apparent reclusiveness. The name 'Kevin Brown' does not appear anywhere on mathpages.com. It takes detectivework to figure out that the author of mathpages.com must be the guy who was active on USENET as Kevin Brown.

I very much like Kevin Brown's Reflections on the mirror question. In my opinion Kevin Brown is always several steps ahead of everyone else. --Cleonis | Talk 08:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]