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"Pentcho Valev" <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1194602267.095113.106080@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
> On 8 Nov, 22:34, Tom Roberts <tjroberts...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
> sci.physics.relativity:
>> Phil wrote:
>> > I will say one thing about the ENDLESS series of posts on the twin
>> > paradox, because a lot of these guys are NOT stupid; they are absolute
>> > PROOF that something is missing, or at least extremely misleading, in
>> > the normal explanation, because the actual math is very basic and fairly
>> > straightforward.
>>
>> Your argument is bogus, and there is nothing "missing" in "the normal
>> explanation". Your fallacy is that you are only looking at the fools and
>> idiots who think they are smarter than everybody else -- their
>> assertions of personal superiority do not "prove" it. Specifically, you
>> are not including the thousands of students each year who LEARN
>> relativity in universities around the world, and have no trouble with
>> it. The sampling of people in this newsgroup is INCREDIBLY biased toward
>> people who don't know their own limits, and who don't think that
>> systematic study is the way to learn a complex subject like relativity.
>>
>> You claim "a lot of these guys are NOT stupid"; in fact EVERY ONE OF
>> THEM is too stupid to bother to LEARN the subject.
>>
>> Tom Roberts
> 
> Roberts Roberts was Herbert Dingle "too stupid" or at least more
> stupid than "the thousands of students each year who LEARN relativity
> in universities around the world, and have no trouble with it"? You
> can see this:
> 
> http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/02/challenging_einsteins_special.html
> 
> Pentcho Valev

A trivial refutation of one of Dingle's Fumbles:
   http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/Dingle/DinglesTrivialFumble.html
Warning: if you are ignorant *and* stupid, this will make it worse.

Dirk Vdm