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Re: Light Speed Limit

From Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Light Speed Limit
Date 2018-08-18 14:27 +0000
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benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/17/2018 6:38 PM, Odd Bodkin wrote:
>> benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 8/17/2018 4:39 PM, Odd Bodkin wrote:
>>>> benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 8/17/2018 12:41 PM, Odd Bodkin wrote:
>>>>>> john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Odd
>>>>>>> “And if it isn’t presented like a comic book illustration
>>>>>>> to John, the way he’d like it, then it is WRONG.
>>>>>>> “
>>>>>>> Present it ANY OTHER way
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The way that it’s in books is perfect for me and I’m a woodworker. Why
>>>>>> doesn’t that work for you???
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> and have it make sense.
>>>>>>> You can’t because it’s mathematical smoke and mirrors.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Mathematics is a language. You just have to learn it. Calling it smoke and
>>>>>> mirrors to avoid that is just a pathetic excuse.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And English is a language. Where did you ever get the wacko idea that it
>>>>> is not possible to translate from one language to another? Your ideas
>>>>> are anti-intellectual babble. Suffice it to say, Odd, that even though I
>>>>> am a shit mathematician I speak and understand the language of
>>>>> mathematics FAR more fluently than you do.
>>>> 
>>>> Ah good. Then please demonstrate. Please translate Maxwell’s equations into
>>>> language plain enough that John will acquire an accurate understanding of
>>>> their physics content.
>>>> 
>>>> I’ll wait here for the delivery of what you assure is straightforward.
>>> 
>>> So if I tell you (oh barmaid and carpenter) that if one measures the
>>> magnetic force one finds at every place on some surface in space (say
>>> enclosing a magnet) then the sum total of those forces will always add
>>> up to zero, you somehow think this is not straightforward?
>> 
>> This you believe represents the physics content of Maxwell’s equations?????
>> 
>> And furthermore you believe that is the accurate statement that captures
>> del*B = 0???
> 
> And you believe that the essence includes the rules of mathematics? This 
> shows just how far you are removed from science. Sure I can explain the 
> rules of math (what vectors are, what fields are, how one takes an 
> integral and so one, but that is mathematics. You asked for a 
> translation of the essence which I did. 

And you did it very badly. Want to dive in and see why?

Let’s start with “measures the magnetic force” everywhere on a surface.
Force on what?

> But in your world logic and 
> essence is to be eschewed. You bask in fraud and jargon and complexity 
> rather than appreciating that the advantage of using the mathematics as 
> a descriptive language rather than some other language is it's 
> compactness. The fact that math is compact does not mean no other 
> language can be used.
> 
> John is right about you. When it comes to understanding science you are 
> really really ignorant.  As my mom used to say to me: How can someone so 
> smart be so dumb!
> 



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

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  Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-16 15:12 -0700
    Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-16 19:47 -0400
      Re: Light Speed Limit casagiannoni@optonline.net - 2018-08-16 20:08 -0400
        Re: Light Speed Limit mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-08-16 17:15 -0700
          Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-16 20:32 -0400
            Re: Light Speed Limit mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2018-08-17 12:55 -0700
        Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-16 20:28 -0400
          Re: Light Speed Limit casagiannoni@optonline.net - 2018-08-17 08:00 -0400
            Re: Light Speed Limit john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 05:48 -0700
              Re: Light Speed Limit casagiannoni@optonline.net - 2018-08-17 10:42 -0400
                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 15:27 +0000
                Re: Light Speed Limit john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 08:37 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 15:47 +0000
                Re: Light Speed Limit john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 09:03 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 16:41 +0000
                Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 14:19 -0400
                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 20:39 +0000
                Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 18:29 -0400
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                Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 08:57 -0400
                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 14:27 +0000
                Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 16:41 -0400
                Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 16:47 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-08-18 21:24 -0500
                Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 20:27 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-20 14:40 -0400
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                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 18:26 +0000
                Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-20 14:00 -0400
                Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 20:39 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-20 14:50 -0400
                Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 15:24 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 01:20 +0000
                Re: Light Speed Limit john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 18:33 -0700
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                Re: Light Speed Limit john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 12:14 -0700
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                Re: Light Speed Limit john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 14:33 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 21:45 +0000
                Re: Light Speed Limit john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 16:28 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 23:50 +0000
                Re: Light Speed Limit john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-08-20 05:27 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-20 14:29 +0000
                Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 20:48 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 22:07 -0400
                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 18:26 +0000
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                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-20 19:50 +0000
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                Re: Light Speed Limit Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-08-20 21:03 -0500
                Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 15:28 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2018-08-23 06:19 -0700
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                Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 16:21 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 13:32 -0400
                Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 20:26 +0000
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            Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 18:16 -0400
              Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 16:39 -0700
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        Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 13:59 -0400
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              Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-19 20:18 -0700
                Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-20 14:27 -0400
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      Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 00:59 +0000
        Re: Light Speed Limit benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 06:36 -0400
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          Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 13:22 +0000
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      Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 10:18 -0700
        Re: Light Speed Limit casagiannoni@optonline.net - 2018-08-17 13:49 -0400
          Re: Light Speed Limit Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2018-08-17 20:39 +0000
            Re: Light Speed Limit casagiannoni@optonline.net - 2018-08-17 16:47 -0400
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          Re: Light Speed Limit Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2018-08-18 15:57 -0700

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