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Re: Better art refines prior art.

From Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Better art refines prior art.
Date 2016-02-12 14:37 -0600
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On 2/12/2016 2:29 PM, Odd Bodkin wrote:
> On 2/12/2016 2:19 PM, john wrote:
>> Odd
>> You STILL have no mechanism.
>> Or model.
>
> Physicists do. I think you just have a disagreement with physicist over
> what "model" means. Model to you means something where you can see the
> inner workings moving, cogs and cams and paths of motion of all the
> pieces. That's not what a model means to a physicist. A model means a
> theory that allows you to calculate predictions of measurable quantities
> that can be compared to experiment.
>
> So when you say physicists don't have a model, what you're really saying
> is that they don't have YOUR kind of model. And physicists will say, "So?"

As an illustration of the difference, general relativity is a model in 
the sense that physicists mean it. That is, with this model, you can 
calculate a) that black holes will form, b) that a binary system of 
black holes will orbit and inspiral and then coalesce, c) that there 
will be a very characteristic profile of gravitational waves, with 
frequency and amplitude increasing in a very particular way, observable 
when that inspiraling and coalescence happens, d) that you will be able 
to observe this signal at two different laboratories, at the same time 
except for propagation delay, with an amplitude related to the distance 
from the event, which in turn will be related to the observed frequency 
profile of the waves in a very specific way. Since the observable 
prediction in (c) and (d) match actual observations, this meets EVERY 
criterion of a model as a physicist uses that word.

The fact that you mean "model" to mean something you can animate with 
AutoCAD is entirely irrelevant.

>
>>
>> "Swarming" gmafb
>>
>
>



-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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            Re: Better art refines prior art. Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-02-12 14:29 -0600
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