Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!kithrup.com!djheydt From: djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) Subject: Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 06:56:08 GMT References: <56D533A6.6693@ix.netcom.com> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Lines: 32 X-Received-Bytes: 1609 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1184000519 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:377537 In article , Poutnik 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