@shallow-blue saidYou are wrong, he dropped out.
Leaving high school to move to tertiary education is not "dropping out". You're just making even more of a fool of yourself by comparing yourself to Einstein. You are nothing like him.
He had to get someone to recommend him being accepted into college. Because he was good at math he was able to do that. You're just making even more of a fool of yourself because you didn't look it up.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Einstein
Responding to being put down for dropping out of high school by basically saying "yeah, well so did Einstein" is not comparing myself to Einstein. The reasons he dropped out do coincidentally have striking parallels to my own reasons though. I also had poor attendance in school. They literally told me to leave class because I could not take certain classes until I appealed their decision. That is because the school does not get paid to educate students with poor attendance at some point.
It was all about money. I got tired of the runaround BS and quit.
31 May 22
@Metal-Brain
An excuse for not just LEARNING. My guess is you were as belligerent then as you are now, not a great way to start a life especially when the teachers HAVE more experience AND education than you.
@metal-brain saidI've looked up the term "dipole repeller" and it is as I guessed: a region of space where matter is being siphoned away by neighboring regions having more and denser concentrations of matter. It has nothing to do with gravity repelling anything.
The dipole repeller seems highly dubious to me. Gravity is not supposed to repel.
I think it is MoND theory and you make no sense.
It is an unfortunate term, as it suggests the existence of a force that is actively repelling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_repeller
The dipole repeller's apparent repulsion is due to matter in the vicinity being pulled towards the Shapley Attractor, along with the Great Attractor. Due to this, the dipole repeller has likely become devoid of matter, causing an apparent repulsion on galaxies between the repeller and the Shapley Attractor.
After concocting puerile terms like up quark, bottom quark, flavor, charm, Big Bang, and so on, a U.N. resolution should have been ratified decades ago that legally forbade physicists from ever again naming things, leaving the job instead to a council of qualified mathematicians. Physicists increasingly leave the mathematics of physics to mathematicians, so why not the nomenclature as well?
02 Jun 22
@Soothfast
I know one scientist who combines math and physics, my son-in-law Gandhi, Phd in 'statistical physics' My daughter teaches music on uni level and Gandhi also teaches at same uni in Brazil.
02 Jun 22
@sonhouse saidQuite a lot of talent betwixt those two. There is, of course, a type of animal called a "mathematical physicist," who is usually busy spinning straw into string theories (10^500 of them and counting). If I were in that line of work I'd make sure to cultivate a strong appreciation of the beauty of the mathematics, because the physics of it is in all probability bunk.
@Soothfast
I know one scientist who combines math and physics, my son-in-law Gandhi, Phd in 'statistical physics' My daughter teaches music on uni level and Gandhi also teaches at same uni in Brazil.
Statistical physics is a different area. A lot of work in thermodynamics in particular, if I recall.
02 Jun 22
@sonhouse saidDidn't Tesla's teacher tell him that AC was impossible when Tesla suggested the idea?
@Metal-Brain
An excuse for not just LEARNING. My guess is you were as belligerent then as you are now, not a great way to start a life especially when the teachers HAVE more experience AND education than you.
Einstein's teacher would not give him a written recommendation so he could get into college. Who was being unreasonable? Einstein or his teacher?
If a teacher hates you simply because he is not smarter than you who is being belligerent, you or the teacher?
@sonhouse saidI do speak a bit in jest, as any physicist has to do mathematics of some sort every day. By and large I'm making oblique references to highly speculative theorizing in areas of cosmology and particle physics that these days seems more a game for either physicists bored with physics or mathematicians bored with mathematics. It can be fun playing the fool in another's field of expertise, but too much grant money is being sucked up by string theory and hunts for "god particles."
@Soothfast
I know one scientist who combines math and physics, my son-in-law Gandhi, Phd in 'statistical physics' My daughter teaches music on uni level and Gandhi also teaches at same uni in Brazil.
02 Jun 22
@soothfast said"It is an unfortunate term, as it suggests the existence of a force that is actively repelling."
I've looked up the term "dipole repeller" and it is as I guessed: a region of space where matter is being siphoned away by neighboring regions having more and denser concentrations of matter. It has nothing to do with gravity repelling anything.
It is an unfortunate term, as it suggests the existence of a force that is actively repelling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/ ...[text shortened]... ncreasingly leave the mathematics of physics to mathematicians, so why not the nomenclature as well?
So is dark energy. Same thing, right?
Einstein's Cosmological Constant. Same thing, right? I don't know if Einstein came up with the term "dark energy", but didn't he start it with his greatest blunder?
The universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. Einstein didn't know that. At the time he thought the universe was static, so of course his math was way off. If he only had waited. Explain the expanding universe without a repelling force.
@metal-brain saidI don't understand so-called dark energy, but then, I don't think any physicist does either. As far as I know, dark energy is essentially the catch-all term for "that whatever that is making the expansion of the universe accelerate."
"It is an unfortunate term, as it suggests the existence of a force that is actively repelling."
So is dark energy. Same thing, right?
Einstein's Cosmological Constant. Same thing, right? I don't know if Einstein came up with the term "dark energy", but didn't he start it with his greatest blunder?
The universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. Einstein didn't k ...[text shortened]... s math was way off. If he only had waited. Explain the expanding universe without a repelling force.
Gravity is another such term. We don't really understand gravity, though we can often model its effects to great accuracy. Is gravity due to a particle called the graviton, or is it a reflection of the geometry of spacetime as modeled by general relativity? If the latter, then it means what we call mass bends spacetime somehow.
But we don't even truly understand the nature of "space" and "time." In my mind physics is largely comprised of questions, and the rest merely begs the question. If the Higgs field, or Higgs mechanism, is what gives mass its "heft," why is that? If a quark can't be subdivided into smaller particles, then what makes up a quark? It seems to be turtles all the way down...
02 Jun 22
@soothfast said" Is gravity due to a particle called the graviton, or is it a reflection of the geometry of spacetime as modeled by general relativity?"
I don't understand so-called dark energy, but then, I don't think any physicist does either. As far as I know, dark energy is essentially the catch-all term for "that whatever that is making the expansion of the universe accelerate."
Gravity is another such term. We don't really understand gravity, though we can often model its effects to great accuracy. Is gravity ...[text shortened]... ided into smaller particles, then what makes up a quark? It seems to be turtles all the way down...
I used to think the same thing, but the graviton is a theoretical particle that makes up space at the plank scale. Have you ever heard someone ask "if light is a wave what is waving"? Gravitons. In other words, the smallest particle that comprises the ether. Now, don't tell me the ether was dis-proven. Only a specific theoretical ether was dis-proven, not all ether theories.
Quantum gravity is still a mystery. I'm not saying don't read Lee Smolin's book, but don't expect that mystery to be solved by reading it.
02 Jun 22
@Metal-Brain
You are going to have your own internal theories about what gravity is and you won't listen to anything anyone of us says because you feel superior to all of us and therefore you in your own mind should be the guru we should all bow down to.
03 Jun 22
@sonhouse saidIf you want to think I am superior that is fine with me.
@Metal-Brain
You are going to have your own internal theories about what gravity is and you won't listen to anything anyone of us says because you feel superior to all of us and therefore you in your own mind should be the guru we should all bow down to.
Have you considered the possibility I am just more curious than most people?
03 Jun 22
@Metal-Brain
Curious. Right. Pandemic is more like it. You are not curious, you are in a race to prove us wrong. You ALWAYS have a motive with your posts and you could not be more obvious about it.
04 Jun 22
@sonhouse saidMy motive is to find out the truth.
@Metal-Brain
Curious. Right. Pandemic is more like it. You are not curious, you are in a race to prove us wrong. You ALWAYS have a motive with your posts and you could not be more obvious about it.
I think you are paranoid. Why do you think I always have an ulterior motive?
@Metal-Brain
Because is it obvious you ALWAYS have a motive, political or otherwise. You fool nobody on that score but you would never admit it, not even be CAPABLE of admitting it so you next post will be just more of the same.
You are psychologically incapable of learning from established science but you ONLY go to fringe groups in the sad hope they can be proven right and therefore YOU obtain validation but it will never work because those fringe groups are destined for failure but you would never admit that either. If a fringe group argued the sky is orange you would try to prove them right.