Re: Misc Questions

From: Vladimir Sacek (vladis.2_at_juno.com)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: 18 Jun 2004 19:55:52 -0700

brian@isi.edu (Brian Tung) wrote in message news:<catchf$ci3$1@zot.isi.edu>...
>
> What baseless derogatory label did I stick on you? All I said was that
> your post indicated that you don't understand general relativity. Do
> you in fact understand it? Your post belies that; so does you request
> for explanation.

Well, well, well... Seems you're short of memory, but I'll help you:
you also said that someone with only rudimentary understanding (you)
can tell at once when someone (me) doesn't even have rudimentary
understanding. That's not exactly an "indication". As for indications
of my ignorance, I asked you - lost the account how many times - to
specify them. You declined to substantiate your statement, but that
wouldn't deter you from restating it, up to this lest post. That
leaves me with only one possible conclusion: you are in the business
of sticking derogatory labels. Bet you're excellent at calling names
too...

> Otherwise, they remain possibilities, that's
> all.

And that's how I treated them. In what obscured (to me) way that
indicates that one doesn't understand relativity?

> > Hmh, not sure Einstain meant it that way... No objective reality -
>
> He sure did mean it that way; that's what his mathematics says, anyway.
> The relative speeds are the objective reality; there are no absolute
> speeds.

Maybe you should do some refreshers, Brian...

> Photons are massless, but they do have momentum and energy. There's not
> a good "why" for that, as far as I know; that's just what they are
> observed to do.

That's fine; I didn't expect you to answer this - maybe just to admit
that there is a seeming controversy in it.

>
> You know what? Forget it. You want to know what the theory says? Go
> read a book. I'm sure you'll get more of it that way than I can explain
> to you.

And there goes the great educator...

Vlad

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