Super Principia Mathematica 325
An anonymous reader writes "This is not an ordinary book and extraordinary would still be an understatement. Robert Louis Kemp has built a plateau of quod erat demonstrandum (Q.E.D.) in math, physics and logic; defined as his Super Principia Mathematica. Beyond brilliant, Kemp has worked on his book for over two decades, sacrificing personal comfort and financial security to laboriously bring to fruition his textbook style, hardback, expertly illustrated principles to the understanding level prevailed by most people. By 'most people' he means those who have a basic understanding of mathematics, geometry, algebra, calculus, physics and most importantly possessing the curiosity to learn." Read on for the rest of Gary's review.
Kemp unpretentiously begins with a quick introduction of the laws of physics, math, relativity, quantum mechanics, and other issues regarding creation of matter, the beginning of the universe, plus dark energy, particle physics, atomic energy, geometry, time and space. In doing so he credits the groundbreaking work done by others over the centuries, such as; Nicolas Copernicus, Jonannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, and more recently Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Hendrik Lorentz, Alexander Friedman and the contemporary and controversial work of Steven Rado. However most notably Robert Louis Kemp celebrates the work and wisdom on one which he quotes throughout his prose and cites credit beyond all the others, and that is God. I would not classify this book within the genre of theology; however it is refreshing to see a man with such scientific acumen articulate his respect for a fundamentally diametrically opposing thought process.| Super Principia Mathematica: The Rage to Master Conceptual and Mathematica Physics | |
| author | Robert Louis Kemp |
| pages | 544 |
| publisher | Flying Car Publishing Company |
| rating | 10/10 |
| reviewer | Gary R. Sorkin |
| ISBN | 0984151826 |
| summary | Presents physics and mathematics in the form of simple math models, pictures, definitons, and aphorisms |
It would be impossible to describe the scientific descriptions of Kemp without quoting an excerpt from his work to illustrate the nature of his writing. Halfway into this book he talks about the principles of The Vacuum Force. To quote, 'The Vacuum Force is popularly thought of as an attractive effect, which is incorrect since vacuums do not innately attract matter like Gravity does using mass. The Vacuum Force behaves similar to a home vacuum where the dust being "sucked" into a vacuum cleaner is actually being pushed in by the higher pressure air on the outside of the cleaner.' Kemp then goes into a discussion of the suction of fluids, which quite interestingly, 'if the pressure is inward (centripetal) motion, its motion does not follow a straight (radial) path to the center; it follows a spiraling path; this is called a vortex.' This is brought deeper into the discussion of the forces of the vacuum, the effect of 'zero-point energy,' called the Casimir Effect, proposed by Dutch physicist Hendrik B. G. Casimir. 'In quantum field theory, the Casimir effect and vacuum force are physical forces arising from a quantized field.' Kemp further goes on to show the relationships using algebraic equations.
An analytical critique of the examples of Robert Louis Kemp's work in a book review is like taking all of Mozart's music and summarizing it into a 30 second sound bite. Kemp writes concisely and cohesively on Einstein's Theory of Relativity, further explaining the relationships of gravitational force, energy, matter and time with countless drawings, equations, and formulas. This book is not to be read in one sitting, but to be savored, chapter by chapter preferably by a discussion group or class, and used as a foundation for further discovery. I have found nothing to contradict or state any opposing comments.
I will reiterate the tools described by Kemp, as stated in his Prologue, 'For me, the mathematics of physics, are the tools that God gave man that he may understand, describe, and predict the great works of God's created universe.' This textbook style book has hundreds of 'white board' equations, numerous expertly diagramed illustrations, and an index precisely affording the reader access to the points of reference within the text by subject. The reader will understand the relationships between such abstract forces and be able to compute the solution of an unknown variable based upon known formulas. His work is recommended for college level classroom studies, independent learning, and as a satisfying source of information for the curiosity within all of us. Robert Louis Kemp takes these tools and in this, one of his series of publications, Super Principia Mathematica: The Rage to Master Conceptual & Mathematical Physics -The General Theory of Relativity becomes a man and with a clear, cognitive vision describing God's universe to all fellow men.
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Kems is on hemp (Score:3, Informative)
Could not get any preview pages of his books on Amazon, but googling revealed some truly crackpot things he had written. See:
http://photontheory.com/Kemp/Kemp.html [photontheory.com]
Kindle? (Score:3, Informative)
No Kindle version? Rats!
Copy and Paste Review (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Zero Point Energy (Score:3, Informative)
I stopped reading the summary when I got to the part about Zero Point Energy. Do a google search on "Zero Point Energy" and you will understand why.
Zero point energy is the ground state of a quantum mechanical system.
It's been used and abused by the sci-fi world, but it's a real scientific concept.
just awful (Score:5, Informative)
I don't know what's worse, dryly making fun of this kind of thing or even more dryly implicitly making fun the sheer number of folks that won't get the joke.
The review is by these guys: http://www.pacificbookreview.com/About-Us.php [pacificbookreview.com]
It's a self-published crank book with a hilarious title. The guy might be mentally ill. It's just sad. I know times are tough but still, this Gary Sorkin guy should be ashamed of taking Kemp's money to promote the book.
Spam (Score:5, Informative)
The "anonymous author" of this review is http://www.pacificbookreview.com./ [www.pacifi...review.com] From their website:
"Welcome to Pacific Book Review - Our goal is to help authors succeed! Strengthen your credibility with a professional book review."
I haven't read the book, but it sets off enough alarms that I wouldn't spend money on it.
If you want a real book on the subject, read Roger Penrose's "The Road to Reality". I still flip through my copy regularly 5 years after buying it. I wish I had read it before I entered my Ph.D. program, it would have saved me much pain and suffering.
Crackpot or not? (Score:3, Informative)
This review tickled my BS detector. I looked up the "controversial" Stephen Rado and found what appears to be his site:
http://www.aethro-kinematics.com/ [aethro-kinematics.com]
It proudly proclaims to have been online since 1995... in blinking text. The first topic? Reintroducing the notion of the aether.
A serious scientific author would probably not associate himself with a site like this. However, if I am wrong and this is a wonderful scholarly work, please let me know.
Re:Glory hound (Score:5, Informative)
As pointed out by drewhk (1744562), this review appears to be a work for hire by a firm [pacificbookreview.com] that is paid to write book reviews by authors and publishers. LinkedIn lists Gary Sorkin as Founder/Consultant for Pacific Communication Group, and the whois entry lists Nicole Sorkin as Registrant. There is an identical review on Amazon that is attributed to the firm.
The /. Book Review Guidelines state:
"Important: If you have a relationship (other than as an ordinary reader) to the author or publisher of a book you're reviewing, disclose that relationship. "
I wonder if such a relationship exists, and if so why it is hidden?
Re:Dude is a crank, and anon reviewer is likely hi (Score:5, Informative)
A quick search on google also turned up the same review, word for word, on ezinearticles by a Gary R. Sorkin. Following back the links, I found that the review was written by this web site: http://www.pacificbookreview.com/ [pacificbookreview.com]
According to their FAQ, you pay them to review your book and they post their review all over the place. I'm sure that they're unbiased.
Admins, please get rid of this slashvertisement.
Intelligent Design and anti-Hawking (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Glory hound (Score:5, Informative)
"Wanna be" indeed. From his own bio:
"I know that there are some readers that would ask, why does Kemp not have a PhD? The truth is reader, I did not want to waste years trying to convince others of my ideas, or doing research for someone else, when my own personal research required that same enormous time."
Not that one has to have a PhD to have insights, but his first book has a subtitle "A Universal Kinetic Aether Theory" which should really tell you enough about this guy's 'credentials'. If you look through the other concepts he mentions are in his book I would imagine that it is all a very elaborate 'first cause' argument for the existence of a creator deity.
This 'review' is a disgrace to the slashdot frontpage...
Re:just awful (Score:3, Informative)
If you like the idea of a thorough derivation of modern physics via all the relevant mathematics, try "The Road to Reality", which is currently mocking me from my bookshelf. I ground to a halt after about 2 weeks because I wouldn't let myself continue without doing at least the lowest-level maths problems.
Re:Glory hound (Score:3, Informative)
Wait! There's a checklist [ucr.edu] for this!
He seems to score fairly low on the Crackpot index based on the review, but if anyone has the book I wonder how high the actual text will score?
Re:Dude is a crank, and anon reviewer is likely hi (Score:4, Informative)
Isn't that what the little "+" and "-" are for?
Clicked "-", selected "binspam", hopefully a few hundred others will do the same and the spam will go away.
This is also against the law (Score:5, Informative)
The Federal Trade Commission just a couple of weeks ago reiterated that the practice of undisclosed paid reviews qualifies as false advertising: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/08/reverb.shtm [ftc.gov]
Re:Glory hound (Score:2, Informative)
Hey, way to have extremely poor reading comprehension. Yes, the Royal Society of Newton's time had something of a peer-review system, but it is not comparable to the system of today. The peer-review system of today is about vetting articles to be published in a journal. What is considered the first peer-review journal and the peer-review system that grew out of that and was the foundation of the modern peer-review system didn't come out until after Newton died. But, hey, nice try.
Re:Who is it for? (Score:2, Informative)
After seeing the samples at
http://www.superprincipia.com/my_FLOM_EBook/Vol_1_FLOM_e_Book.html [superprincipia.com]
I retract my statement containing the word "pleasant".
Re:Glory hound (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Glory hound (Score:3, Informative)