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Article #7023Re: Einsteinians à la recherche du temps perdu
From: Dirk Van de moortel
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:56
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:56
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Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Jan 3, 12:18 am, "Dirk Van de moortel" wrote:
>> Hayek <haye...@nospam.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> I glanced through it at Standaard boekhandel, in
>>> Antwerp. It said nothing and explained nothing about
>>> time, so I did not buy it. I bought and read a book(let)
>>> which was a collection of lectures of Hawking and
>>> Penrose on Space and Time, but found it very much
>>> lacking too. The best book on time is still "About Time"
>>> form Paul Davies.
>>
>> Yes, I can imagine that you liked it. Good grief, it's another
>> first class crackpot factory. Even worse than Hawking's.
>
> Clever Moortel what is this? Zombie Dirk Van de moortel calls Master
> Paul Davies and Master Stephen Hawking "crackpots"?!? What is going on
> in Einsteiniana?
I was hoping and literally *waiting* for this comment :-)
Thank you so much for being so utterly predictable.
Updated list of differences ignored by Pentcho Valev:
- crackpots vs. people writing books fancied by crackpots, <== NEW!
- rates vs. values,
- a personal humorous musing vs. a common dogma,
- children's books vs. inspired essays,
- physicists vs. philosophers,
- coordinate time vs. proper time,
- invariance vs. constancy,
- special relativity vs. general relativity,
- teachers vs. hypnotists,
- laymen vs. zombies,
- a person being right vs. a theory being right,
- students vs. imbeciles,
- bad science vs. bad engineering,
- bad engineering vs. bad cost management,
- honing the foundations of a theory vs. fighting it,
- physics vs. linguistics,
- an article written in 1905 vs. a theory created in 1915,
- understanding a book vs. turning its pages,
- speed vs. relative (aka closing) speed,
- doing algebra vs. randomly writing down symbols,
- real life vs. a Usenet hobby group,
- receiving a detailed reply vs. being ignored,
- everyday concepts vs. scientific concepts in physics,
- the three things that smell like fish,
- inertial vs. non-inertial,
- speed vs. velocity,
- an article vs. a book,
- relativity vs. disguised ether addiction,
- algebra vs. analytic geometry,
- kneeling down vs. bending over,
- local vs. global,
- a sycophant in English vs. in French,
- a relation vs. an equation,
- massive vs. massless particles,
- a Mexican poncho vs. a Sears poncho,
[ - implication vs. equivalence, <== perhaps to be removed ]
- group velocity vs. phase velocity,
- science vs. religion
Dirk Vdm
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