Here at last are my crank pages - these are one step beyond my rants. A rant is a tirade about something, heartfelt, but not necessarily anything unusual or off-beat. I rant about spam, for example - well, many people dislike spam, some quite vehemently. I am in good company when I complain bitterly about spam.
Not so with the crank pages. Here, I discuss matters that seem reasonable to me, sometimes even obvious. Often I am puzzled that I don't find much agreement with what I say, but the fact is, on these issues I am in a very small minority - often composed only of myself. Am I a "voice, crying in the wilderness" as I like to believe, a lone prophet who some day will be heard? Or is it just that there is some medicine I ought to be taking? It doesn't look good for my view. Only time will tell whether I am truly innovative and ingenious, or whether I'm just another crackpot.
Make no mistake about it: The ideas I espouse on these crank pages are not accepted by mainstream science, mathematics, or pretty much anywhere else. By presenting these ideas, I place myself squarely in the camp of the flat-earthers, the conspiracy theorists, inventors of perpetual motion machines or anti-gravity, free energy enthusiasts, and others who rail against a skeptical establishment that refuses to accept the incomparable subtlety of their thoughts.
My only saving grace is that I don't take these ideas seriously enough to try to convince the scientific establishment to accept them. I acknowledge that they are most probably wrong, based on my incomplete understanding of things. If by chance any of them happen to be correct, the chances of my convincing anyone of it are negligible - I have no standing whatsoever in the scientific community. Still, they rankle a bit, so I'll present them here for your amusement or confusion, and leave it at that. Enjoy...