The Last Word

[Bazza]

Hope to respond today or tomorrow. 

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[Bazza]

On 6/22/2023 at 1:27 PM, Bazza said:

Hope to respond today or tomorrow. 

well, today. 

[Bazza]

[quote] I see why you like this; the speaker perpetuates the myth of the Lone Genius who appears to make up stuff purely from his own mind, and dismisses people who actually study directly what the Universe does and publish their findings, people like Faraday, Michaelson, Thomson, Rutherford, the Braggs, Hubble, Stern, Wu, Penzias & Wilson, etc.  And those rare individuals who do both, like Kirchhoff and Fermi. [/quote] This amuses me more than anything. The presenters view don't represent my own when it comes to physics. If anything, the video "explains" the economic considerations of doing physics as a day-job. 

 

[quote] He seems only to care about the most abstracted "fundamental" theories, and explicitly cherry-picks from purely theoretical work where it has become easy to overlook the underlying reasons for the development of those theories. This absolutely ignores the fact that advances in theory have only come once a critical mass of unexplained experimental and observational results have accumulated.  To put it more harshly, he constructs a fallacious picture of physics theory by ignoring that science is empirical.  He is implicitly setting at zero value those who test theories, find where they don't work, and indicate the directions in which new physics must be, or find utterly unexpected phenomena exposing hitherto unrecognized shortcomings in accepted theory. [/quote] So I take it you agree with the comment on the video that said this his video doesn't apply to physics in whole, and _may_ only apply to particle physics?

 

[quote]I suspect also he's got a very dangerous ulterior motive, as well.  He stops short of saying so explicitly, but it smells like he wants established academia pulled down and replaced by new thinkers.  That has been tried in the last century, too, though the most famous case is in evolutionary biology rather than physics.  Stalin did that in the Soviet Union because he liked Comrade Lysenko's ideas, which set biological sciences back for a few decades, and contributed to a famine or two in eastern Europe. [/quote] I don't recall anything about Lysenko's "contribution" to the Holodomor. I remember I posted something to the forums about it, but can't remember which thread.

 

[Bazza]

Managed to fit everything in. 

[Bazza]

Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah
 

sounds like a story there…

[Bazza]

 

[Cancer]

The effective gravity field at the surface of such a world would be ... interesting.

[Bazza]

To say the least. 

[Bazza]

 

[Bazza]

Double negatives are a know gnosis. 

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[Bazza]

Who are the top 5 nicest guys in Hollywood?

[L. Marcus]

All five of them is Keanu Reeves. 

[Bazza]

 

[Bazza]

https://youtu.be/OR3UXxy1tFg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tkdguy]

I don't shift the utensils because I'm left-handed, and I keep the fork in my left hand. I know that would be considered rude in certain countries. I observed my own behavior when using the fork. If I eat meat after cutting it, I keep the tines facing down. But if I scoop up other items like rice and vegetables, I turn the tines up. Let's face it, rice is practically impossible to scoop up on the fork with the tines down, and it's a staple in my household.

 

Edit: As for utensil placement at the end of the meal, I was taught to always put my utensils together as the British lady demonstrated. We did that even at home, and I still do that today. I am genuinely surprised it's not common to do that (at least according to the comments in the videos) these days.

Edited July 17, 2023 by tkdguy

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Edited July 17, 2023 by Bazza

[Bazza]

On 4/1/2023 at 11:14 PM, Bazza said:

 

 

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Edited July 18, 2023 by Bazza