Yes, just to be clear, there's no mention of Feynman in my link.
However, if you've found something of interest, please share.
However, if you've found something of interest, please share.
OK. I watched "the Primer Fields, Part 1", despite the fact that the opening credits were 1 minute and 57 seconds long. Long opening credits are a red flag. And the comments section is turned off. Not sure enough to tolerate criticism? Another red flag. Who is David LaPoint? Nothing about his background on the web page. Nothing on Wikipedia. Where did he learn his science? He got a degree in physics? He uses the Pantheon in Rome and angels painted on a dome in Italy to bolster his theory. Seriously? "Why are these angels on fire exactly where they should be?" he asks. He is the Deepak Chopra of electromagnetism.
Well there was but it's gone now probably to return later.
Verry interestink, but Shtupit!
I found the quote Discopete!
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.” - Richard Feynman
He elaborates - "The way in which science is of value is familiar to everyone. It is that scientific knowledge enables us to do all kinds of things and to make all kinds of things. Of course if we make good things, it is not only to the credit of science; it is also to the credit of the moral choice which led us to good work. Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it. Such power has evident value — even though the power may be negated by what one does."
MITsound,
this is a consistent statement, maybe the only one in this thread. Coulomb`s law says that strength (intensity) depends on position, which he arrived at in a time when electricity was hardly known, a remarkable feat indeed (Einstein`s formula is not).
Galu,
gravity remains unexplained. Newton did mot understand it, nor did Einstein as the four dimensional spacetime nonsense indicates.
The quote I've written is what the man's written. There should be no other written versions of what he's written. Unless you have written to imply that I have written rotten? 😀
Rest assured you have not rotten written. In the link at the right side bar was his quote..apparently; worded quite differently. I'm sure he talked about the topic more than one time. I will try to find it.
Your reply makes it patently obvious that you did not read, or perhaps did not understand, my reply to your criticism.
- I said physicists were actively pursuing a new model of gravity, admitting that the true nature of gravity remains unexplained.
- I said Newton did not understand how the force of gravity works.
- I said that Einstein's theory of gravity involving the curvature of spacetime breaks down in extreme gravitational conditions (although, having been tried and tested elsewhere, it is certainly not nonsense).
So, have you anything original to offer in the search for a new and better theory of gravity?
P.S. I freely admit that I haven't. It will take minds greater than mine!
I've clicked on and off the gluon link. Each time a different quote comes up. Feynman's did come up but I failed to recognize it. However the one that struck me the most was Oscar Wilde's " We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars". The parallel, I mean.🙂
Thanks to all the light pollution most of us only see 0.001% of them though.
Really miss those nights when gazing up at a clear starry sky looks like sand on a beach.
Really miss those nights when gazing up at a clear starry sky looks like sand on a beach.
I am fortunate enough to live not far from the Galloway Forest, which is claimed to be the largest forest in the UK.
The Galloway Forest has been designated as an International Dark Sky Park because of its breathtaking and rare stargazing conditions.
Dark skies - Forestry and Land Scotland
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Someday, whether it's SARS, Avian flu, or Coronavirus, some bug will cut down on light users.
Are you another of those ‘Einstein was wrong’ guys?
Have a chew on this
http://www.ihes.fr/~vanhove/Slides/renn-IHES-mars2013.pdf
And then get back to us.
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I grew up in South Africa and it’s not hard to find places over there where you are 50 miles from a town or any bad light pollution - especially in the Karoo or Drakensberg Mountains. I remember spectacular star gazing as a youngster. And it wasn't cold!
I’m going to New Zealand in the next year or two - our friends out there are also star gazers (the husband has a 6” reflector) and we have planed a trip to Mount Cook where they also have a dark sky reserve.
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My interest in astronomy started with a Charles Frank refracting telescope not much more sophisticated than the one shown in the attachment, but powerful enough to study the craters on the Moon and observe the four major satellites of Jupiter. I never invested in a more sophisticated instrument as it's always cold in Scotland!
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