Re: The single hardest thing for cranks to get

From: AllYou! (idaman_at_conversent.net)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:43:06 -0500

"Patrick Reany" <reany@asu.edu> wrote in message
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> "AllYou!" <idaman@conversent.net> wrote in message
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> > "Paul Stowe" <ps@acompletelyjunkaddress.net> wrote in message
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> > > On 23 Nov 2004 06:18:03 -0800, reany@asu.edu (Patrick Reany) wrote:
> >
> > > > 2) Physics is likely not much hurt by this general lack of
> > > > appreciation concerning the abstract nature of time. Physicists tend
> > > > to NOT keep their wits about them concerning time, yet they tend to be
> > > > able to invent principle theories that work anyway. The single biggest
> > > > error that the crank believes is that modern physics is not successful.
> > > > It is!
> > >
> > > Of course. You can ALWAY putin placeholders for gaps in actual knowledge.
> > > But it is, and will alway be, a lousy subsitute.
> >
> > Perfectly said. I could not agree more.
>
> I expected you to do better than to be taken in by a mere platitude.
> The claim you gave your assent to is vacuous!
>
> If there is only one good thing about the study of philosophy it is
> that it helps us from being taken in by a platitude.

Notwithstanding any point you were trying to make, tell me this, if physics is about
building models which work, what is the model for time and how does it work?