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Re: Einsteinians à la recherche du temps perdu

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From: Dirk Van de moortel
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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