Re: A dumb question about time..

Hi Hobba

I asked the question quite on purpose in this forum. My critical answer comes
out of my experience I have with so called professionals when it comes to the
topic I want to discuss.
I found out that most of them have not the slightest clue what time may be.
(Quite a lot of them are reacting kind of, lets say, disturbed, like I try to
destroy their favourite toy by aksing what it may be.:) )
I read my way through most of the literature written about it, and I came to the
conclusion that there ist no answer from the professional site.
Its more the attitude, "man its out there, so why bother."
I hope, an maybe I am totaly wrong, to get espacially from the "dumb" people a
new point of view.
Because maybe, (and I am aware its just a "maybe") they think about things
without the classes we wear.
It had my experiences with an evening talk with a farmer who told me more about
Ecosystems in two hours and a few beers than I learned in highschool in four
years.
So I am carefully listening when somebody is talking nonsense. Some fool proved
to talk gold bevor when we had been just clever enough to listen.

Sorry for my English

Andreas Höss



Bill Hobba wrote:

> "Andreas Höss" <giordano.bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:429088FB.619F850C@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I dont want to appaer to be mean, but what do you know
> > > > about Black Holes?
> > >
> > > Not much. I have worked through a few technical books
> > > on general relativity a long time ago. I can follow the
> > > calculations. As a refresher I recently read a few books again.
> > > So apart from what I have learned there I don't know much
> > > about them. I don't make a living with them.
> > >
> >
> > Its a pitty because I have few Questions about them too ;)
> >
> > >
> > > > Sorry I mixed up the letters its BEC Bose Einstein Condensation...
> > >
> > > I have read one little non-technical article about the BEC,
> > > so I can't answer the question. I don't even understand it.
> >
> > Interesting stuff. Opens new points of few...
> >
> > >
> > > So what if they are cleverer? There is no problem when person
> > > X knows that he cleverer than person Y.
> > > I have nothing against dumbness or stupidity. Some of my best
> > > friends are dumb and stupid. In the eyes of cleverer people I
> > > must be stupid as well. But I don't take an arrogant stance
> > > against those who are smarter. When they tell me something I
> > > don't understand, I don't tell them that they must be wrong.
> > > The arrogance factor is essential for that little collection on my
> > > site. If you find an entry that does not qualify and if you can
> > > convince me, I will remove it. I have removed entries before.
> > >
> >
> > I dont mind if somebody ist cleverer than me. I enjoy it if it helps me to
> broaden my
> > knoweledge.
> > But I like them most if they do this, instead of thinking of me as beeing
> stupid.
> > And btw. Einstein said about himselfe. " I am not inteligent, I just ask
> questions."
>
> Einstein was intelligent as indicated by both IQ tests and his scientific
> accomplishments. But the validity of his works and ideas, indeed the
> validity of what anyone says or writes, is not dependant on how intelligent
> they are - it is dependant on what they say or write. That of course does
> not mean when someone of proven accomplishments in an area writes something
> we do not give it the respect it deserves even if we think it is wrong.
> Often the reason we think it is wrong is we do not understand it. And this
> is the whole problem with the idiots Dirk catalogues. They arrogantly
> believe their misunderstandings are valid objections - and to those that
> have expended the time and effort to understand it is obvious they are not
> valid objections. They do not even concede they may not understand it. It
> is all consistent with 'Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in
> Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments'
> http://www.phule.net/mirrors/unskilled-and-unaware.html.
> However their arrogance will not allow them to take the crucial step of
> improving their skills so their misconceptions can be corrected. I also
> suspect they have a desire to feel special - and indeed what can be more
> special than being able to see what all these supposed smart guys can not.
>
> Thanks
> Bill
>
> >
> > Andreas
> >

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