Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity,sci.physics Subject: Re: How can highly intelligent people wind up believing foolish things? Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 12:24:06 -0700 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: <64EA5156.3073@ix.netcom.com> References: <04ff2fde-8e36-4746-961a-311f8a45ebb7n@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="1764960"; posting-host="nLYg9UBeoMWa070gP9wQcw.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; Cancel-Lock: sha256:1q/b+4oa92GSJqr7I3IZzJB6kmO+KNeS2g1hgcBt/Wc= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 230826-2, 08/26/2023), Outbound message Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:618963 sci.physics:879743 Sylvia Else wrote: > > On 25-Aug-23 1:15 pm, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote: > > By being indoctrinated in an ideology. > > > > Why can't they defend that with reason? > > > > Because they weren't persuaded by reason. > > Do you ever wonder how a theory proposed by a patent clerk in his > twenties came to be accepted by the vast majority of physicists? Even if > it were true now that he is a supreme scientific figure whom no one can > contradict (spoiler alert, it's not), it wouldn't have been the case then. > > Sylvia. "the vast majority of physicists" are lemmings and cranks and cooks. "the vast majority of physicists" are too stupid to contradict what they don't understand! "the vast majority of physicists" didn't and don't understand a theory proposed by a patent clerk in his twenties. Keep in mind that a theory proposed by a patent clerk in his twenties didn't even mentioned Gravity once. a theory proposed by a patent clerk in his twenties didn't know what gravity was! a theory proposed by a patent clerk in his twenties wasn't even good at math. Wasn't good at math. Wasn't good at Gravity. He's good at building bombs! "Perhaps it will prove possible to test this theory using bodies whose energy content is variable to a high degree (e.g., salts of radium). -- Albert Einstein (1905) "...new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable - though much less certain - that extremely power- ful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air." -Albert Einstein Albert Einstein wrote: "According to these discussions and a remark you made yourself when you were visiting me it seems to be desirable to have a device which automatically brings to explosion a torpedo passing below a ship at the right moment. I have an idea for an electro-magnetic device for this purpose which I would like to submit to you for your judgement. S is an electro-magnet producing an alternating magnetic field with vertical axis. s and s' are two coils with vertical axis connected in serie with opposite magnetic axis, which are located symmetrically to S. The current created by induction in those two coils may be multiplied by tubes (current i). The device is set in function only at a moment when the torpedo is far enough from the emitting ship to avoid the magnetic influence of the latter. As long as the torpedo is on the way i will vanish for reasons of symmetry. The torpedo is supposed to travel deep enough so that it will not hit the target directly but pass below it. When the torpedo approaches the target there will be created through the nearby parts of the ship's hull an additional (induced) alternative magnetic field which at first will be stronger in s than in s'. There is now created a current i the intensity of which will change according to the following diagrams L ' U PV... M corresponds to the moment when the torpedo passes under the middle of the ship. At this moment i will again vanish for reasons of symmetry. This is the moment to put the explosion into action. It will be easy to construct an electrical contact device which functions if a current is first initiated and goes again to zero afterwards. " -Albert Einstein Now, here is a question I have. "Einstein was thinking about the prob- lem for about ten minutes, and finally chose momentum and gave the reasons" -Lt. Stephen Brunauer, head of the High Explosives Division Lt. Stephen Brunauer, head of the High Explosives Division presented his problem to Albert Einstein. Question: How did Albert Einstein answered the question in ten minutes???? -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.