🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: bln.sci.mathematik
Article #50

Re: What's Wrong With These Fromulas?

#50
From: Phil Carmody
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:21
27 lines
2320 bytes
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:49:44 +0000, Randy Poe wrote:
>>> One Sentence Proof #1
>>> Moving in spacetime is impossible because it requires motion in time and
>>> motion in time is self-referential.
>> 
>> 
>> The terms "moving" and "motion" haven't been defined.
>> Through the argument out as using undefined terms. Hopefully your
>> antagonist will come back with something either inconsistent or
>> vacuous. Neither need worry you.
>> 
> 
> I recognize the work of psychotic sci.physics crackpot Louis
> Savain (currently posting as "Traveler"). Presumably the poster
> was looking to take down Savain on mathematical grounds.

Now Savain is in my killfile. Or he was until I had a 'killfile crash' a
week ago (I hand-edited it, made a typo, it wasn't recognised, and was
overwritten by a new one with default settings. Anyone care to lend me a
second hand sci.math killfile?)

> As you point out, it's too vague to even be wrong.

I wish the OP luck, but think he's better off playing nintendo that
wasting time arguing with cranks.

Phil
Technical Details
Message-ID: <pan.2003.01.20.21.21.26.38463@yahoo.co.uk>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.uni-stuttgart.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!62.236.152.56!not-for-mail
References: <E8OW9.19290$o8.413184@twister.tampabay.rr.com> <pan.2003.01.20.16.38.16.197606@yahoo.co.uk> <b0hcro0s7n@enews3.newsguy.com>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f6df2,8354f3858aaa3e86
X-Google-Attributes: gidf6df2,public
X-Google-Thread: 1032cb,8354f3858aaa3e86
X-Google-Attributes: gid1032cb,public
X-Google-Thread: f4956,8354f3858aaa3e86
X-Google-Attributes: gidf4956,public
X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,8354f3858aaa3e86
X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-20 13:23:29 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.uni-stuttgart.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!62.236.152.56!not-for-mail
From: "Phil Carmody" <thefatphil_demunge@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups: bln.sci.mathematik,de.sci.mathematik,fj.sci.math,sci.math
Subject: Re: What's Wrong With These Fromulas?
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:21:31 +0200
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <pan.2003.01.20.21.21.26.38463@yahoo.co.uk>
References: <E8OW9.19290$o8.413184@twister.tampabay.rr.com> <pan.2003.01.20.16.38.16.197606@yahoo.co.uk> <b0hcro0s7n@enews3.newsguy.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.236.152.56
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1043097807 26390727 62.236.152.56 (16 [77618])
User-Agent: Pan/0.13.0 (The whole remains beautiful (Debian GNU/Linux))