Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!3.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:23:37 -0500 Message-ID: <626ADBB0.239B@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 11:23:44 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Organization: The Starmaker Organization X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Stationary Points in Space References: <7bb23deb-ed69-4097-a4ed-4f2874833186n@googlegroups.com> <6aed40da-f50a-44e9-8877-c4f3f38a10b5n@googlegroups.com> <518f40a2-4aec-4997-9994-7ced2ca594d2n@googlegroups.com> <7de01923-8346-49c8-83b1-f79d4ca1e435n@googlegroups.com> <655b822c-4a81-4e78-804d-27570161e6c7n@googlegroups.com> <5ca716c0-59d6-47b8-927e-e4d5f7b11352n@googlegroups.com> <80af938f-3690-4b47-8151-4e7e13218ae8n@googlegroups.com> <3f25433c-0872-4eb7-8512-24cf7b6060f7n@googlegroups.com> <1f55fd80-3760-4b22-9a9e-003c6c2b5a3bn@googlegroups.com> <6aa0f477-88f6-4bf8-89d1-299382f26e77n@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 220427-14, 04/27/2022), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 40 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-x0tu0w2Xu97a4SlfDbC4kAwUOFAo/DI4M1A1DIjyVdRNzjyLDi2yqZZFJEk9nCoC/SL/nKb9XzHw4oH!hbXl24GBNHqML8TnalsOIPhpP7FmFQViGmZmYUk/ozpWy9OP3yzEsJqg6k2IRdJ/GyOCyZr+5PPh!ehiOlVdSvss= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4022 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:584410 Odd Bodkin wrote: > > Ed Lake wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 12:48:19 PM UTC-5, bodk...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Ed Lake wrote: > >>> On Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 11:45:23 AM UTC-5, bodk...@gmail.com wrote: > >>>> Ed Lake wrote: > > > >>>>> You may be right, which shows the sorry state of college physics textbooks. > >>>> No, that’s not the right conclusion. If you find that every textbook > >>>> disagrees with something you think is true, then it is a mistake to believe > >>>> that you are right and every single textbook is wrong. What is a much > >>>> better strategy is to conclude that it is YOU that is not understanding > >>>> something correctly. > >>> > >>> There are plenty of textbooks that agree with me. I have a collection of > >>> well over 100 college physics textbooks. > >> A hundred TEXTBOOKS? I’d like a listing of the first 30 please. > >> Note that Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos is not a textbook. > >> Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is not a textbook. > > > > Here are about 70 that I have categorized as "textbooks." I could have > > dozens more that I just categorized as "books": > > OK, so let’s have a small moment of truth-telling here, Ed. You have > provided a listing of 70 books, but you fell short of claiming that these > are actually in your possession. It turns out that I have 152 books in .pdf format, 11 books in .epub format (which my computer can read to me, if I want), and 2 books in .mobi format which I can theoretically read on my Kindle. I also see that only 31 of the 152 books in .pdf format are non-searchable (I'll explain later why that is important). -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.