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Re: How can highly intelligent people wind up believing foolish things?

From	The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject	Re: How can highly intelligent people wind up believing foolish things?
Date	2023-08-26 12:24 -0700
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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.

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