At 07:28 am 20/06/2006 -0400, you wrote:
> Dear Vortex People,
>
> I admit I am not the best speller. I admit I get
> somewhat excited and or exercised when I type fast.
> I do not generally use of have a "spell check" program.
>
> I thank Kyle and I thank those of you who are ''lurking''
> and may or may not agree.
>
> My main reason for posting is to ask questions.
>
> Would someone, maybe a lurker... or not... help me to
> help the whole of vortex to learn the basics of the
> differences between:
>
> (A) Theory
>
> (B) Experimental support.... or not support .. of
> one or more theories.
>
> C) Mathematical ideas, armchair expositions, and the
> history of the basis of or for some given post or posts.
You are obviously a person full of natural curiosity
about the world, John, a curiosity that is so sadly
lacking in today's scientists who have had grooves
worn into their brains by too much dogmatic
education - scientists who are by and large
incapable of climbing out of those grooves and
contemplating the broad uncharted vistas of the
plateau above.
You want an exciting theory? What could be more
exciting than a theory which stands conventional
physics on its head and claims that materials are
held together by external compressions, not by
internal tensions - which claims that internal
tensions, bonds and the like, are negations and
no more real that the vacuum of the wifey's
hoover.
You
"LIKE real world, nuts and bolts,
belt and suspenders engineering."
What could be more real world than that of the
civil engineers who are famous for wearing both
belt and braces (in England suspenders hold up
socks, not trousers 8-) ).
What could be more real world than that of
concrete and soil mechanics where the Beta-
atmosphere was conceived all those years ago.
What could be more real than tests on 12 by 6
inch concrete cylinders crushed in a stiffened
1000 ton long-column test machine or squeezed
by a simulated aether in a high pressure steel
cell.
You say you like,
"the grand love of discovery."
- then come and read the member's File Section at,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Beta-atmosphere_group/
and learn how the experiments demonstrating the
reality of the Beta-atmosphere were developed
surreptitiously in British government laboratories.
Learn how they were published in defiance of the
establishment's opposition.
Learn how the ideas were put on trial in front of
a panel of experts who were incapable of faulting
them.
Learn how the author was the only scientist who ever
appealed to the very top of the British Civil Service
on the grounds that, if true, the ideas could have
serious safety implications for prestressed structures.
You wont find anything too difficult to understand.
You wont find any complicated mathematics - But you
will find that you have to make a huge Gestalt switch -
that you have to turn your present views inside out -
that you have to leave behind ideas to which you may
have become inordinately attached.
If you were still a student I wouldn't want to seduce
you from the status quo in case it compromised your
graduation or doctorate but since you seem to be past
education, what about it?
Do you feel up to the challenge? 8-)
Cheers,
Frank
