| It's been truly a voyage of discovery watching the internet take the story of Dr Anderson and his theory, then rip it mercilessly apart, occasionally punctuated by isolated voices threatening to support his work. I can only imagine how the man himself must feel.
I was extremely impressed with the individual who, confronted with the original article on dividing by zero, declared: 'That's Numberwang!'
I was also pleased to discover a podcast entitled The Weekly Geek, which featured the article right at the end.
But my award for the finest response from the internet goes to a gentleman named Bill, from a website entitled TheScrabbled. You may remember that in my initial nullity-related post, I included an image of Dr Anderson's proof, drawn on the back of an envelope:

Bill took that image, disappeared briefly into his image editing software, and re-emerged with the following effort - adding: "This makes just about the same amount of sense to me."

I never expected to have somebody doctor my handwriting so that it represented ninja kittens, and I'm really quite pleased with the end result.
You can now hear a 20-minute discussion between myself and Dr Anderson where I try to put some of the more clearly expressed arguments to him, here. I'm not expecting you to have listened to it the next time we meet. That would be really awkward. "So, didcha like the bit where I asked about binary?" "Look, Ollie... I'll be honest... I sort of didn't click the link."
By the way, if you want to keep track of what I'm writing just in case I do come up with something you're interested in, you might want to bookmark this link. Google News have now added us to their list of sources, so each article we write will appear, in date order, on that page. It includes articles written by colleagues at News Online and in our newsroom so the stuff won't all be mine, but at least a third of it will have come from yours truly - ninja cats to be supplied at a later date from our US office. |
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