What is a Watt???

[Richard T. Fowler]

Derek,

Thought you might want to know, you've just been accused of what amounts to scientific fraud over at the Air Vent page where we met.

The question is over a matter that is in the Johnson work, Computational Blackbody Radiation. Johnson allegedly claims that he is using the diameter of the Earth to compute the disc-equivalent surface area, but he is plugging in "diameter" in the value where radius is supposed to go.

ScienceofDoom is claiming that you were just joshing everyone by pretending to believe that this was correct. He is implicitly saying that you knew it wasn't, all along.

I thought I saw a link to a copy of that here on your forum somewhere. I'll have to go look for it now.

RTF