WmBliss

Long time Wikipedia user, supporter and donor.

I am a retired physicist with interests in many areas of research, especially those which might someday significantly transform human civilization. Of particular concern to me is the growth of anti-science rhetoric which seems to go unabated.

I was also recently elected to a four year term as Supervisor of my county's Soil & Water Conservation District. My goal in this position is to help citizens reconnect to sources of valid scientific expertise.

My Current Wikipedia Interests: (This is just a collection point for my notes)

• Problems with inconsistent treatment of Topics which get mis-categorized. Should we create new terms?
  • Pseudoscience
    • List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
      • Do we need the term: "pseudo-hypothesis" for an idea which clearly is not a science, makes no predictions, because it is fundamentally based on false information.
  • Protoscience
  • Antiscience
  • Fringe-Science
  • Mainstream Science
  • Science
• Fringe-Engineering vs Speculative-Engineering
  • Space Elevator (Fringe)
  • Lunar Elevator (Speculative)
  • Cryonics
    • As a future vitrification protocol design goal (Speculative)
    • As a currently reliable continuation of life (Fringe)
    • As a future nano-technology for repairing freeze damage (Speculative)

A few of my hobbies

• Promoting the use and development of online collaboration tools for scientists.
  • Sorry, but I don't recommend Mediawiki, it doesn't have necessary page protections.
• The design of semi-self-assembling remote controlled lunar industrial robots.
  • This is the cheapest and fastest method for building permanent human colonies in space.
• The design of autonomous mining equipment using high pressure cutting jets.
• The promotion of global governance,
  • necessary if we are going to solve any of the many global problems.
• Research into axiomatics of quantum field theory.