JOURNAL OF LUNATIC PHYSICS

Ask not: "Is the idea too crazy?"
Rather ask: "Is the idea crazy enough?"

Purpose of the Site

To give outlandish ideas a chance. And what kind of a guy would I be if I asked to see your outlandish ideas without showing you mine?

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Neutrinos Faster Than Light? Say it ain't so!	Headlight On a Spaceship? Didn't See That Coming.

As far as acceptance for publication is concerned, I don't care who you are, or where you went to school, or if you went to school, or how many other ideas you may have had, or if you've previously even had an idea. If you have a fresh theory right now and want to get it on record before somebody else thinks of it, this just may be the site you have been looking for. But... as the Rosecructions have said: "thoughts have wings", so don't be too surprised if after you are published somebody howls that he had the idea first.

The only reason I care at all who you are is to keep a lid on plagarism and anonymous potshots. If you want to expand on someone else's idea that's fine. Just make sure you give that someone else credit. I don't mean that you have to refer to Euclid every time you write an equation. Rule of thumb: If the idea you are expanding on is less than 100 years old, and/or not generally known, give credit. eg: If I were to write "90% of everything is crap" there might yet be someone who didn't know that was Sturgeons Law and credit the saying to me. Plagarism. I could say "According to Sturgeon '90% of everything is crap'; Sturgeon was kind." This is an expansion, and as far as I know, original. If you know differently let me know and I'll give credit where credit is due.

If you see something on this site that you don't agree with submit your counter argument. If you see your theory under someone else's name show me where it was previously published under your name.

I imagine that most who contribute will have the notion that the Peer Review oriented journals are closed shops that won't publish outsiders without a long delay, if at all. Peer Review isn't all bad. It conserves paper and ink in the hard copy world. There must be something else good about it but nothing comes to mind just now. At it's worst Peer Review becomes prior restraint. A bad idea will fall of its own weight if it has a proper airing.

How to Submit

You ain't gonna like all of this.

For starters e-mail me the text in Plain Text, no Attachments. Make the Subject line say, and only say: "JLP2150".

Now I know that it's cumbersome to compose long pieces within your e-mail program so go ahead and put your article togeather with whatever you normally write in. Then hit "Select All"; "Copy"; open Outlook or whatever you use; then "Paste". Now your article is in the body of the e-mail in Plain Text. After I have read it I'll tell you how to send any illustrations.

What Gets Published?

You will like this.

Near about anything that has a connection to Science in general and Physics in particular. Here are the guidelines:

1. Open with an overview of your idea. Unless the idea itself is some sort of new math, avoid math in the opening. If you can't explain what an idea is about without math you probably can't explain it with it either.

2. Avoid adjectives.

3. Material containing profanity will be discarded.

4. Java Scripts will be deleted

5. Remember that you can't prove a negative. The negative is assumed absent positive proof.

Who Gets Paid and who holds the copyrights?

You probably won't like this a whole lot either.

You do not get paid for being published on this site. You pay nothing for being published on this site. Your work, as submitted, is automatically copyrighted as you write it but you may want to register it. By submitting your work to this site you grant the owner of this site the right to publish and republish said work in whole part or in part. Should another publisher wish to republish your work it can do so only with both your and this site's owner's permission.

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Make the Subject line say, and only say: "JLP2150".