Hi Lonnie, Sorry for belated answer, but I too had some trouble. You don't have the monopoly. And I'm too sorry for words, learning about yours. BTW, George and Lonnie sounds a bit like "Of Mice and Men", does it not?
I'll comment here a few assertions picked up from your different posts. If you feel like discussing it, welcome, but, please, one at a time. Next items will come in subsequent posts. ============= L: Georges, please do not be angry with me ... G: Don't worry, it can't happen. I have a deep sympathy for you and if you disagree with me, it just makes things more spicy. As the French say, "vive la difference". ============== L: So far as why a car is steered in front but a boat is steered in back, I did indeed learn that as early as my first toy wagon. Schools do not concern themselves much with such things, ... G: And that's the trouble. They teach you a lot of abstractions and completely neglect the intuitive grasp of the concurrent knowledge. I did not ask if you know THAT cars are steered in the front, as everybody knows it. I asked WHY cars in front and boats in rear, which hardly anybody knows, except professionals, and which everybody should know, as it embodies, as I said, a fundamental and yet childishly simple principle of physics and cybernetics. I designed, among others, this "steering puzzle" on request of Infeld and Einstein, who were both worried about the established education. Infeld's noting was that a Harvard PHD failing to answer it does not deserve a driving license, let alone the high school certificate and forget the PHD. Out of a poll of 400 PHDs TWO good answers, including one of my daughter, PHD in astrophysics, +10 handicapped as I introduced her to physics. I did some car mountain racing. At each arrival at a course, a band of teenagers jumped on you, asked what was your previous and proposed to help softening your front stabilizers, hardening the rear and making your gearbox shorter, as the course was less open. In exchange of being taken the on trial runs and taught the four wheel drift (which you doubtless master). They were poor youngsters with just two or three elementary classes. And yet, all gave the right answer, wondering why I can ask such idiotically simple question. With funny formulations, having nothing to do with highbrow academic vocabulary, but nevertheless expressing the right gist. Concrete before abstract, or you have nothing to abstract from. Years afterwards I helped to implement it in Israeli kibutz schools. ============ L: You really like Einstein don't you? I don't because I prefer a reality in which we can eventually cheat our way past relativity, see "Heim Theory". G: I don't know if I like Einstein. What I know is that I find his approach to research more efficient than anybody else's in history and that I find his Relativity and the co-created by him Quantum Physics the cutting edge of the concurrent knowledge. As for Heim Theory, there must be a misunderstanding. It does not "cheat its way past relativity", but accepting the 4 dimensional curved hypersurface of the General Relativity goes beyond it, into the 10 dimensional SPACE in which it is embedded, with a complexity which, with all my respect, you certainly cannot grasp. To get what I mean, have a look at the "DARK AND LUMINOUS MATTER" http://findgeorges.com/ROOT/SECOND_ENLIGHTENMENT/0h_dark_matter.html where I propose, in simple intuitive terms, to associate the Dark Matter with the 10 dimensional SPACE embedding the 4d curved hypersurface of the General Relativity. More items in next post. Georges. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
