Re: e NOT EQUAL TO mc2

From: Creighton Hogg (wchogg_at_hep.wisc.edu)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:03:10 -0600

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Bilge wrote:

> Creighton Hogg:
> >
> >
> >On 16 Feb 2005, vignesh wrote:
> >
> >Sorry, but if you were one of my students you wouldn't be passing the
> >class.
> >You can argue that classical kinetic energy isn't 1/2 mv^2, but even the
> >freshman physics labs I teach *show* that it is through practical
> >demonstration.
>
> Hey -- it's not fair to use real examples taken from any
> actual experiment to shoot down the navel contemplations of
> a crackpot. That's like telling a little kid that santa claus
> doesn't exist or that there is no starship enterprise. And
> stop calling me ``surely.''

There's no starship enterprise?!?!

Putting that aside though, I honestly think it takes a certain amount of
maturity to realize how important experimental results are and that
whatever *you* think doesn't matter when nature says otherwise.