August 2011

This talk announced below was to have been webcast live.

Update: The videos were long ago taken down by USM, and my versions do not work any more.
The videos are now posted at
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEK1FCrLHjU
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFf5co3G3R8
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zomZU949Cnw
Anyway, the video is now online at the USM website at
http://www.usm.my/index.php/en/about-usm/usm-videos/video-on-demand.html

My version is at

http://ckraju.net/videos/videos.html
There are no subtitles so I should perhaps explain that the persons on the dais are (from left to right) Prof. Tan Sri Dato’ Dzulkifli Razak, VC, USM, CKR, Dato’ Saifuddin Abdullah, Deputy Minister for Higher Education, Malaysia, S. M. Mohammed Idris, Chairman, Citizens International, and Prof. Ahmad Shukri, Deputy VC, USM.
Don’t miss out the prize I have offered of RM 10,000 (about USD 3300) for reliable primary evidence on Euclid (with the caveats attached).
The long comment (about Needham) was very strange, and I did not want to be rude. But, on second thoughts, that is what I should have done, and that is what I should do in future.
Of course Needham studied the scientific revolution, and not the industrial revolution. The questioner was afraid to use the right term, since I have already shown that the Copernican revolution and the Newtonian revolution are bogus. (more…)