Well Mr. Owen use the 101 crackpot dictionary... he knows the truth (since so long) and we are the dumbest people on earth... but by a miracle (that only he knows) he feel compelled to overwhelm us with his truth and his patronizing vocabulary... why ?
Quentin 2013/12/30 freqflyer07281972 <[email protected]> > Might I respectfully suggest the following: > > 1) That when you have an "obvious" intuition or brilliant stroke of > insight that goes against a century or more of insight from the most > distinguished physicists and > > 2) That when you are unable to operationalize your intuition in such a way > that other people could perform an experiment to see what you are saying is > true and that it does in fact go against the received wisdom then... > > You might reconsider the merit of your originally amazing intuition and > ask yourself if you might not in fact be in error and/or suffering from a > bit of self-deception. Yes, it does seem quite "obvious" and "self-evident" > that we all share a single present, I absolutely and utterly agree with you > here. However, I also appreciate the various thought experiments put > forward by Einstein originally and now by other (quite sharp) people on > this list pointing out how this intuition simply cannot be true. These > thought experiments have later become actual experiments whose results have > agreed, not with our incredibly clear and obvious intuition, but with the > very counter-intuitive predictions that Einstein provided. > > I'm not going to hash out more examples. I don't think it's necessary. > I've included some links you might want to read at the end. What I think is > happening though is you might be deceiving yourself a bit in thinking that > you are so brilliant in arriving at insights that absolutely no one else > has come to, and you are kind of starting to come across like this > guy.<http://www.timecube.com/> > > If you really want to understand behavior of the physical world we live in > (or apparently physical, but actually computational, a la Bruno), maybe try > these links out: > > http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/srelwhat.html > > http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/synchronizing.html > > http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/time_dil.html > > Peace out, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
