On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Pigs are flying and it's freaking people out! > > > > The game's afoot! Should be fun, the next few months > > There was and interesting description of the progression of a skeptic > to a believer in one of the earlier Infinite Energy issues. I wish I > could quote it. It begins with "that's impossible an a violation of > physics" and ends with "I knew that to be true all along." > > Anyone remember this? Was it Schwinger? > > It's conventional wisdom and takes various forms, one of which is: 1. "It's not true," 2. 'Well, it may be true, but it's not important," 3. "It's true and it's important,but it's not new-we knew it all along." It's the old "any conceivable phenomenon must be true if someone is skeptical of it" argument. Not very persuasive.
