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Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics

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From djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics
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In article <nb3dss$50k$1@dont-email.me>,
Poutnik  <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> wrote:
>Dne 01/03/2016 v 07:16 The Starmaker napsal(a):
>> the Nobel Prize committee said that
>> Einstein's relativity, 
>> is philosophical, not physics, right? 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.
>> But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it’s longer than any
>> hour. That’s relativity.”
>> 
>> 
>One can make a philosophical or poetic comment
>for near any part of science.
>It does not make it a philosophy nor poetry.
>
>-- 
>Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer )

Cognate with Russian Sputnik?  Sounds as if it might be, but I've
learned to beware of false cognates.

Einstein is also supposed to have said, when asked to explain radio,
"Well, you know how the telegraph works.  It's like a very long
cat; you pull the cat's tail in New York and it meows in Los
Angeles.  Radio is exactly the same, only there is no cat."

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-29 22:16 -0800
  Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 07:49 +0100
    Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-03-01 06:56 +0000
      Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 08:16 +0100
  Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2016-03-01 07:52 -0500
  Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 08:34 -0600

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