@KellyJay saidKellyJay, I’m 75% of the way through the video and wondering what the connection is to spirituality?
https://youtu.be/R3LjJeeae68
Interesting talk, all about gravity
Edit: finished the video, but still wondering why this is in this Spirituality forum and not the Science forum?
The video itself (as far as one viewing can reveal) contains no controversial insights or aspects relating to either science nor religion, and does a nice job of presenting a simplified exegesis into Einstein’s work on gravity.
A quick scan through the latest YouTube comments on the video reveal no controversy, no scientific push back and no inferences or references to spirituality, religion or in fact anything other than the video topic.
Well KellyJay, you’ve been online here at RHP pretty much all the time I’ve been commenting but haven’t bothered to engage so I’m guessing you’ll be thinking up something tangential to say so that you can continue to ignore the only person paying your OP any attention.
Perhaps mchill will come along shortly and chastise me for not focusing on my chess and I can try talk to him about the video, although he will probably say there is an insufficiency of something-or-other and therefore has nothing to say on the matter.
@divegeester
Six days, radio silence, and another thread peters out into cold, dark, entropy.
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@moonbus saidMeaningless mindlessness.
@divegeester
Six days, radio silence, and another thread peters out into cold, dark, entropy.
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@divegeester said“Gravity is not a force.” was, I think, KJ’s feeble attempt to prop up his belief that science doesn’t really know what’s going on, that science is merely an alternative belief system with a god-shaped hole in it. The video does no such thing. It does however raise the point that thinking of gravity as if it were a force, something similar to magnetism (which IS a force), is a metaphor. Rigorous physicists don’t talk that way.
Meaningless mindlessness.
Thinking of atoms as if they were little solar systems, with hard little balls of electrons orbiting a solid nucleus, is also a metaphor. Rigorous physicists don’t talk that way.
But, as we know from other threads, KJ can’t abstract; he takes everything literally. Viz the talking snake in The Garden.
@moonbus saidWho knows what KellyJay was trying to say; he’s in a permanent sulk with me and refusing to engage further on his OP.
“Gravity is not a force.” was, I think, KJ’s feeble attempt to prop up his belief that science doesn’t really know what’s going on, that science is merely an alternative belief system with a god-shaped hole in it. The video does no such thing. It does however raise the point that thinking of gravity as if it were a force, something similar to magnetism (which IS a force), is a metaphor. Rigorous physicists don’t talk that way.
He possibly is or was a flat-earther at some point due to the Bible talking about the heavens being a dome.
@divegeester saidYeah, well, the Bible talks about a whole lot of things, the Earth being immobile and so on. The OT is full of barbaric stories, and the Apocalypse is a hallucinogenic nightmare. Make of it what you will, but literal factual news reporting it is not. More like Fox ‘News’, if you ask me.
Who knows what KellyJay was trying to say; he’s in a permanent sulk with me and refusing to engage further on his OP.
He possibly is or was a flat-earther at some point due to the Bible talking about the heavens being a dome.