Re: Is charge conserved between frames?

From: sal (pragmatist_at_nospam.org)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:17:55 -0400

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:17:55 +0200, Paul B. Andersen wrote:

> If I were you, I would not let him so easily off the hook. I would
> repeat the nonsense he wrote above and rub it it. It would of course
> have no other purpose than the fun of seeing his idiotic responses.
> But that's me and my sense of humour. I am not as kind as you are.

I'm not so sure it's kindness. I usually feel crummy afterward when
I fire all phasers so I just try not to.

When I first started posting here, a year or two back, I was just
learning SR, and was struggling through the early chapters of MTW. I
actually learned a lot by arguing with Androcles. Aside from
providing a foil, he also has interesting things to say from time to
time -- the more so, the farther removed from relativity they are.

I don't particularly want to make him look like a fool, nor even
feel like one.

But in the last few months his responses to my posts have turned nastier,
and arguing with him is no longer entertaining. Pity. (I realize his
responses to posts of yours, Dirk's, Cesar's, and a handful of others were
already about as nasty as they could get.)

> Go get him! Pour the hot soup over his head! :-)

What's the point?

My interest in the group is discussing physics. Pouring hot soup over
his head isn't going to convince him of the truth of

  dE/dt = v*f

nor of the correctness of

  curl(E) = (@Ez/@y - @Ey/@z, @Ex/@z - @Ez/@x, @Ey/@x - @Ex/@y)

nor of the truth of the assertion that a pendulum clock will run
faster at the pole than at the equator, by a fair fraction of 1%,
solely as a result of Newtonian effects. The only way to show the
truth of those claims is by references or reasoning. Insults just
won't do it.

Sigh... 

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I can be contacted through http://www.physicsinsights.org

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