Re: Relativity and delusion
- From: "Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoortel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:12:44 +0200
Uncle Ben <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There is somethig about the theory of relativity that attracts strange
people;
Yes, it's the fact that the math is *much* simpler than the concepts.
This is place is crammed with shortsighted slugs (among which a
surprising amount of retired engineers!), who can reasonly handle
the former but were never exposed to the latter. Very interesting.
Maybe legitimate physicists are strange in themselves, but
the strangeness that I obeserve is a kind of arrogance.
Arrogance, because each person afflicted with this disease thinks that
among scientists around the world in universities, national
laboratories, those who worki on billion-dollar particle accelerators
and even in industry, there is a frank stupidity that causes them to
reject what is apparent to any sensible person: namely, that it is
OBVIOUS that length, time, simultaneity, magnetism, == all are not
relative. They are either absolute or relative to a person's
livingroom. Even your grandmother can see that!
It is a kind of childishness that believes that one's personal
boundaries mark the end of the world, that there are no great minds
whose conceptions of reality are driven by necessity, by experimental
truths that boggle the mind, by observations that are far beyond the
ken of the ordinary man in the street. Not knowing of these facts,
these observations, the arrogant one imagines that the great minds are
crazy, stupid, or mentally ill.
The pity is that it would be nice to have a newsgroup with people
humble enough to imagine that there might be minds greater than our
own and that instead of trying to be a giant killer, we should accept
the invitation to sit at the giant's table and learn about the
wonders of the universe.
But it will never happen --
No, I don't think so either - there will always be a steady fresh
supply of retiring engineers and highshool dropouts who learned
to handle a square root.
But don't loose too much sleep over it - if you can't stop it, try
to enjoy it :-)
Dirk Vdm
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