On Jul 23, 3:49 pm, Uncle Ben wrote:
There is somethig about the theory of relativity that
attracts strange people;
such as those who believe it is true.

Maybe legitimate physicists are strange in themselves, but
the strangeness that I observe is a kind of arrogance.
Arrogance, because each person afflicted with this
disease thinks that among scientists around the world in
universities, national laboratories, those who work on
billion-dollar particle accelerators and even in industry,
there is a frank stupidity that causes them to reject what
is apparent to any sensible person: namely,
that anything that contradicts human logic is false.

It is a kind of childishness that believes that ... there
are no great minds whose conceptions of reality are driven
by necessity, by experimental truths that boggle the mind,
by observations that are far beyond the ken of the ordinary
man in the street. ... [The] arrogant one imagines that the
"great minds" are crazy, stupid, or mentally ill.

From the preface to my newest book:
"Someday we'll understand the whole thing as one single marvelous
vision that will seem so overwhelmingly simple and beautiful that we
will say to each other – 'Oh, how could we have been so stupid for so
long?'" John Wheeler

The pity is that it would be nice to have a newsgroup with
people humble enough to imagine that there might be minds greater than [their] own and that instead of trying to be a giant killer, we should accept the invitation to sit at the giant's table and learn about the wonders of the universe.

The title of my new book is "The Universe". Above Wheelers remark it
says,
"This book will explain what the Universe is made of and how those
things interact to form everything that exists. The constructions are
based on the validity of human reason and sense evidence, coupled with
experimental results."

glird

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On Jul 24, 2:01 pm, "Dirk Van de moortel" dirkvandemoor...@ThankS-NO-
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On Jul 23, 3:49 pm, Uncle Ben
The pity is that it would be nice to have a newsgroup with people
humble enough to imagine that there might be minds greater than our
own and that instead of trying to be a giant killer, we should
accept the invitation to sit at the giant's table and learn about
the wonders of the universe.
Your "giant's table" was set by a high school graduate waiting to
be accepted into College; a person who knew how to do algebra but
not calculus, thus misunderstood his own equations in the 1905
paper representing that table itself.

Are you the same Glird that was posting here until feb 2002?

Yes.

If so, what took you so long?

If you are asking what took me so long to correct the
errors of present Physics caused by Einstein's, it's
because I am a human being.
As I found out decades ago, on a scale of intelligence
1 being lowest and 10 highest, the human race is about
2.3 - 2.4. Therefore, even though I was tested and rated
in the top .5% of the human race, thus at the "genius" level,
i had to search out and correct my own many errors along the way.
As I found out later, a "genius" is a person with an almost infinite
capacity to make mistakes, which he never stops trying to find and
correct.
Similarly, as the title of one of my many books says,
"My True Heroes were human, too".
By the way, although I disagree with his relativity THEORY,
Einstein was and remains one of my True Heroes nevertheless.

glird

You fell for one of those "test you own IQ" scams, huh?
I'm in the top 0.1%.

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Dirk Vdm

| Are you the same Glird that was posting here until feb 2002?
|
| Yes.
|
| If so, what took you so long?
|
| If you are asking what took me so long to correct the
| errors of present Physics caused by Einstein's, it's
| because I am a human being.
| As I found out decades ago, on a scale of intelligence
| 1 being lowest and 10 highest, the human race is about
| 2.3 - 2.4. Therefore, even though I was tested and rated
| in the top .5% of the human race, thus at the "genius" level,
|i had to search out and correct my own many errors along the way.
| As I found out later, a "genius" is a person with an almost
| infinite capacity to make mistakes, which he never stops trying
| to find and correct.
| Similarly, as the title of one of my many books says,
| "My True Heroes were human, too".
| By the way, although I disagree with his relativity THEORY,
| Einstein was and remains one of my True Heroes nevertheless.
|
| glird

You fell for one of those "test you own IQ" scams, huh?
No. In 1942, while I was in college, I went to Washington, DC and
was tested by the US Government.

I'm in the top 0.1%.
You obviously took the scam test.

On Jul 23, 11:49*am, Uncle Ben wrote:
There is somethig about the theory of relativity that attracts strange
people; *Maybe legitimate physicists are strange in themselves, but
the strangeness that I obeserve is a kind of arrogance.

Arrogance, because each person afflicted with this disease thinks that
among scientists around the world in universities, national
laboratories, those who worki on billion-dollar particle accelerators
and even in industry, there is a frank stupidity that causes them to
reject what is apparent to any sensible person: *namely, that it is
OBVIOUS that length, time, simultaneity, magnetism, == all are not
relative. *They are either absolute or relative to a person's
livingroom. *Even your grandmother can see that!

It is a kind of childishness that believes that one's personal
boundaries mark the end of the world, that there are no great minds
whose conceptions of reality are driven by necessity, by experimental
truths that boggle the mind, by observations that are far beyond the
ken of the ordinary man in the street. Not knowing of these facts,
these observations, the arrogant one imagines that the great minds are
crazy, stupid, or mentally ill.

The pity is that it would be nice to have a newsgroup with people
humble enough to imagine that there might be minds greater than our
own and that instead of trying to be a giant killer, we should accept
the invitation to sit at the giant's table and learn *about the
wonders of the universe.

But it will never happen --

Uncle Ben

Just because you know everything Einstein ever said does not make you
anybody.

Mitch Raemsch

In retrospect, the title of this thread is very appropriate, for RELATIVITY and DELUSION are one and the same. And we can leave it at that, no matter what delusional relativists may currently feel, pending prescription of the appropriate medication for them.

On Aug 3, 11:24 am, Dono wrote:
On Aug 3, 8:06 am, wrote:

Similarly, as the title of one of my many books says,
"My True Heroes were human, too".
By the way, although I disagree with his relativity THEORY,
Einstein was and remains one of my True Heroes nevertheless.

glird

Liar.

On page 215 of "What it all is and Why", 1989, I wrote:
No matter what realm of endeavor you examine, there are no human
geniuses. Some of us are just a little less dumb than others.
That was the early conclusion reached by my "intelligence test".
Let us put that conclusion to the lie, in what follows.
Otherwise, it is an Insult.

On page 563 I wrote,
If you wondered why I keep claiming high respect for my True
Heroes,
while seeming to make fun of them all along the way, this may help
explain
it. Each of the myriads of temporary torchbearers leading Man along
his
path is worthy of high respect and admiration even if and when, for
the
moment, you disagree with some of them and try to find the light
yourself;
and if perchance you find some, become a minor torchbearer for a
flowering moment of intense joy.

And on page 597:
Sadly, once the programmers are gone the programs become sacred;
sanctified and compacted by the mysticism in the minds of the users
whenever they invoke the name of the person who wrote the program
of the moment. To those who write the programs, however, everything
is up for grabs and subject to change.

Finally, on page 110 of "In the Beginning there was God", 1992:
As to my metaphysics itself; as written in What it all is and Why,
"Without all the tedious hard work and dedication of all my TRUE
HEROES
I wouldn't have known where, what or how to begin."
Whether I agree with them or not, everyone who helped discover the
data
and concepts and equations on which I relied is and always will
remain
one of my True Heroes.

A long time ago I was arguing with a few people while on a jet
plane
flying high in the sky, and one of them mumbled, "I don't suffer
fools
gladly." I instantly replied, "Since I want to argue with physicists
like you, I have no such choice."
If you wonder why I keep reading and writing messages on this
newsgroup,
Dono, it's because - no matter what his attitude and nasty language
may
be - the mere fact that someone continues to reply means that he too
is eager to understand everything. If and when he does, he will be
grateful
for anything I may have said or done to help him succeed; and vice
versa
if (contrary to my expectations) he corrected me anywhere at all.

glird

On Aug 27, 2:54*pm, wrote:
snip BS

Your "book" is a crock of ****, Lebau.