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  1. Good, you then are on a precisely equal footing with Mathis, as physics is one of many things he doesn't have a background in; another is math. I'm really trying to find something correct in the above paragraph but not succeeding. Among people who have actually taken some calculus and/or physics the consensus is that Mathis is an incredible boob whose high output of stuff that's completely wrong is a symptom of a (probably benign) mental disorder.
  2. {David Spad voice}Yeah, he kiiiiind of is {/David Spade voice] Newsflash: in "kinematic situations" pi = 3.1415.... If you found it edifying, and you understand it (quick, can you know something that is not true? Answer!) and it is compelling to you that is ipso facto proof that you have some deficiencies, in your education or critical thinking, or both. The good news is that's a fixable situation.
  3. Yeah, I'm gonna stop you right there, cowboy. Vectors have direction. The sides of a square do not have direction. The diagonals of a square do not have direction. You've just been been mathed! Which is much better than being Mathised. Math is the antidote for Mathis. Which, in an apples and oranges sort of way, is why his papers' conclusions are consistently wrong. People are drawn to Charles Manson, Deepak Chopra, and [insert name of politician you don't like here].
  4. Actual fallacies? I am flabbergasted that you would issue this challenge. The actual fallacy is when he says pi = 4. Pretty simple really. As in most of his papers Mathis displays an astounding and aggressive ignorance of math even at the high school level; is there a word that means "ignorance" only more so? That's what he displays. In this case he uses taxicab math (yes, that's a real thing) to find his value of pi, which is 4, which is simply the upper bound when you use taxicab math to compute the value of pi. In typical Mathis style, he completely ignores the lower bound. Just so we're clear, he is completely wrong about almost everything, in all of his papers.
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