WAS HERBERT DINGLE TOO STUPID? (was: A New Solution to the Twins Paradox, and Others)

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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:57

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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

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Subject: WAS HERBERT DINGLE TOO STUPID? (was: A New Solution to the Twins Paradox, and Others)
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