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| Quote (Louis @ Jan. 23 2008,06:37) | Shorter version for TP:
1) Sometimes intelligent people mock you/your ideas or are not receptive to your ideas/presentation of those ideas because the ideas are false/wrong/bad and you present them badly/irrelevantly etc. Sometimes people try to point this out to you out of a kind of frustrated helpfulness. Think about it. Mockery is sometimes a clue!
2) Sometimes you need to walk before you run. Start at the level of "forming coherent basic idea" before trying to "synthesise myriad complex concepts poorly understood from popular science books" or "revolutionising all of science". |
I'm afraid TP is constitutionally blind to the limits of his own understanding.
For instance, in this thread at Telic Thoughts, he:
1. Misidentifies gravitational redshift and Mercury's orbital precession as motivators for Einstein's theory of special relativity.
2. Confuses inertial reference frames with absolute reference frames.
3. Mistakenly claims that general relativity is needed to resolve the twin paradox.
4. After all of the above are pointed out to him, proceeds to lecture Zachriel and me on the twin paradox, getting it totally wrong.
Eventually Zachriel, amused by TP's intransigence, portrays him as Starfleet's version of Captain Queeg.
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And the set of natural numbers is also the set that starts at 0 and goes to the largest number. -- Joe G
Please stop putting words into my mouth that don't belong there and thoughts into my mind that don't belong there. -- KF
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