Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 18:09:21 -0500 Message-ID: <626B1EB4.C6@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:09:40 -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: <626ADBB0.239B@ix.netcom.com> <626B0ED6.1DCC@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 220428-8, 04/28/2022), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 68 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-YxODDcrFM9oj8vdTbFc3KAJBX9tBh6CuxPxXY9KPRyUOkqE7iyuQMzpOMIIXyj/iG02PPunq84c76kj!d25/565xXiTRtM7pF3lRoy38Grg6Oa/LIfDVvUEFZdOtLrQkDFZF/ZANZwAh1SYTlCet3fPrgLbv!1jhp4lHh 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: 4145 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:584447 Odd Bodkin wrote: > > The Starmaker wrote: > > Odd Bodkin wrote: > >> > >> The Starmaker wrote: > >>> 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). > >>> > >> > >> I have a few hundred trade books in ebook formats as well. But not > >> introductory college textbooks. There’s a reason why that is so. > >> > >> -- > >> Odd Bodkin -- maker of fine toys, tools, tables > > > > > > > > I only posted what Ed Lake wrote: > > That I don’t doubt. I’m sure he has lots of ebooks. Just not the textbooks > he listed. I'm a little confused about what you wrote: "...sure he has lots of ebooks. Just not the textbooks he listed." Can you name a (one) title of an ebook he listed that you seem to believe he doesn't have it in ebook format? Just name one title..uno. -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.