Re: Al et al, PoE? (physic/0411052)

From: Androcles (Androcles_at_)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:25:01 GMT

"Sue..." <suzysewnshow@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:1108369948.411050.101840@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>
> Sorry Ken,
> The remark wasn't directed to any member of this NG. It was rather an
> offhand dig at a famous Einstein quip that discourages the application
> of sound reasoning.
> I assumed most would recognize it but I should have put it in quote
> maks.
>
> Sue...

LOL!
You still haven't.

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

a.. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction."

That means
 x' = (x - (-v)t) / sqrt (1 - (-v)^2 / c^2)
     = (x+vt)/ sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)

and we have the Andersen expansion.

a.. "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

That means knowing time isn't a vector doesn't matter if you imagine it
is.

a.. "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

That means divorce, the people are no longer attracted to one another.

a.. "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

Einstein had faith and a belief in telepathy.

a.. "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

He needed an accountant to add numbers for him.

a.. "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

He didn't live in on this planet.

a.. "The only real valuable thing is intuition."

His intution is real, so it is an illusion.

a.. "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

Holy Christ! I wonder if Einstein has holes in his hands and feet...

a.. "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."

No crap tables allowed in heaven.

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

You can play craps, drink booze and smoke weed behind
the bicycle sheds and God will turn a blind eye, but only
AFTER you've ridden the PoE elevator to heaven.

a.. "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

Keep a stiff upper lip when the plane's attitude is pitched 90 degrees.

a.. "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

Spacetime is pre-determined.

a.. "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

Einstein comprehends "eternal" (not to be thought about) mysteries by
the power of his imagination.

a.. "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

He was a shoplifter that got caught and paid for all the stuff missing
from the inventory, including what the other shoplifters stole.

a.. "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is
blind."

Ya gotta say prayers or God'll turn the light off before you can brush
your teeth, finish your homework and get in bed.

a.. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

This is the contrapositive of
"Try something new and you'll make a mistake"
(which he did).

a.. "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak
minds."

Very true. Just look at the weak minds that contribute to this newsgroup
and the violent opposition they produce.

a.. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

A restatement of Occam's Razor.

a.. "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
eighteen."

Give up common sense when you are eighteen, Einstein did. (Not that he
ever had any before he was eighteen.)

a.. "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's
living at it."

Science is only for professional bullshitters.

a.. "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Mary Woolstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker.

a.. "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

He was so dumb he never learned time was not a vector.

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates
empirically."

without playing craps.

a.. "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday
thinking."

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

a.. "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a
pathological criminal."

E = mc^2/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2), let's built a nuclear bomb.

a.. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by
understanding."

War can be maintained by force.

a.. "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
comprehensible."

Bright green flying elephants lay eggs. Look inside your refrigerator
and comprehend.

a.. "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used
when we created them."

He creates the problems, let someone that doesn't think like him solve
them.

a.. "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he
learned in school."

He never paid any income tax.

a.. "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its
own reason for existing."

I'm not sure I'm right, you solve it.
a.. "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure
you mine are still greater."

He couldn't handle mathematics, thought time was a vector, had never
heard
of a proof by contradiction or reductio-ad-absurdum.

a.. "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the
present, but an equation is something for eternity."

  I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

a.. "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is
x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

I'm not telling how x'/(c-v) = x'/c+v), I defined it instead.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not
sure about the the universe."

He's talking about Dinky the fumble mumbler, devens, YBM, Bilge,
Andersen.

a.. "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

He thinks time is a vector.

a.. "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

God laughs at Lloyds of London having to pay out on "Act of God".

a.. "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must,
above all, be a sheep."

The remark was aimed at relativist members of this NG. Sorry, Ken.

Androcles.

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