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Originally Posted by Sean Schuff
After reading the debate here about the feasibility of such an idea I am reminded of a quote I have hanging in my office. It says "Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted. - Arthur Schopenhauer"
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I don't see how this applies, or is even plausible. To say that every original idea that is ridiculed and then attacked MUST be accepted seems foolish. It is true to say that every scientific claim should be attacked and tested before being accepted as true. That's not the same thing, however. Look at the story of
N-Rays.
What I'm saying is, that just because something's being ridiculed and attacked doesn't mean there's some sort of merit there. Some times a spade really is just a spade.
EDIT: As to the claims in the paper... Obviously it's all original research. In fact, it's so original, that the vast majority of his sources are written by him. A brief skimming of it reveals that he's proposing an entirely novel way for molecules to bond that has nothing to do with valence bonding. On the whole it sounds rather odd to me, and no one else has done any followup research