• Re: How do Universities Sell Prestigious Baubles?

    From The Starmaker@21:1/5 to LaurenceClarkCrossen on Thu Jan 23 10:05:49 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.




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    and challenge the unchallengeable.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Thu Jan 23 21:44:38 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    I'm on it!

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Thu Jan 23 21:47:25 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual weaklings who
    couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't accept
    curved space for a second.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Thu Jan 23 22:05:17 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    Of course, it is not a conspiracy theory to understand that universities
    are prestige mills selling prestige for tuition. This is proven by the
    fact that their marketing has persuaded people to pay fortunes to be
    taught ignorant fallacies as sophisticated science. The idea that space
    expands or curves is a case of extraordinarily deceptive marketing. What
    kind of fool would defend this deceitfulness by accusing the critic of propounding conspiracy theory?

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to LaurenceClarkCrossen on Thu Jan 23 22:20:20 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual weaklings who couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't accept
    curved space for a second.
    Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have understood
    that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it
    stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and
    forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that parallel
    lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation for the doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person
    would have balked at such an irrational assumption and recognized him as
    a foolish fellow.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Thu Jan 23 22:28:44 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    Would you like to step outside for a minute?

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Thu Jan 23 22:26:47 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    There is a double standard when claims of having proved parallel lines
    do not meet are regarded as ridiculous, while implicitly assuming they
    do is viewed as brilliant. This proves that some absurdly stupid ideas
    have been marketed so slickly as to put them over on almost everybody to
    the profit of universities and big science.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Thu Jan 23 22:40:17 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast
    research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Jim Pennino on Thu Jan 23 23:37:24 2025
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:06:50 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast
    research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

    Apparently, all the experiments and math are beyond your comprehension.
    You are lame on logic. Your derivation is wrong as already made clear in
    this thread and in other recent threads. When the derivation is wrong it
    cannot predict so your experiments cannot prove it. The derivation is
    beyond your comprehension.

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  • From Jim Pennino@21:1/5 to LaurenceClarkCrossen on Thu Jan 23 15:06:50 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

    Apparently, all the experiments and math are beyond your comprhension.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Jim Pennino on Thu Jan 23 23:45:52 2025
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:06:50 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast
    research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

    Apparently, all the experiments and math are beyond your comprehension.
    Do you think the experiments prove parallel lines meet? They would have
    to for space to curve. Your logic is wrong. Your derivation is wrong. It doesn't predict.

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  • From Bertietaylor@21:1/5 to Jim Pennino on Fri Jan 24 03:19:09 2025
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:06:50 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast
    research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

    Apparently, all the experiments and math are beyond your comprhension.

    Abuse of maths from wrong analysis of experiments form the basis of
    "modern" physics now debunked thanks to Arindam.

    Woof woof woof woof woof woof

    Bertietaylor

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 24 04:14:03 2025
    My comments haven't been posted so pardon some redundancy:
    Do you think the experiments have proven that parallel lines meet? They
    would have to meet for space to curve. You are not addressing the issue,
    which is not the experiments but the derivation. Experiments cannot
    prove the derivation is sound. I have shown it is not sound and cannot
    predict. The Einstein equation merely differs from the Newtonian by
    changing the "2" into a "4." The problem is that it is a non-Euclidean
    curved space. That is fiction.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 24 04:26:07 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Do you think the experiments have proven that parallel lines meet? They
    would have to meet for space to curve. You are not addressing the issue,
    which is not the experiments but the derivation. Experiments cannot
    prove the derivation is sound. I have shown it is not sound and cannot
    predict. The Einstein equation merely differs from the Newtonian by
    changing the "2" into a "4." The problem is that it is a non-Euclidean
    curved space. That is fiction.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 24 04:25:32 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    test

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Fri Jan 24 05:45:24 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 5:35:59 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    I'm on it!


    Now that you are "on it", I just want to know who side you are on...


    How many planets are there in our solar system?
    You know me. I wouldn't really take sides.

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  • From The Starmaker@21:1/5 to LaurenceClarkCrossen on Thu Jan 23 21:35:59 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    I'm on it!


    Now that you are "on it", I just want to know who side you are on...


    How many planets are there in our solar system?




    --
    The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
    to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
    and challenge the unchallengeable.

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  • From The Starmaker@21:1/5 to LaurenceClarkCrossen on Thu Jan 23 22:08:06 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 5:35:59 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    I'm on it!


    Now that you are "on it", I just want to know who side you are on...


    How many planets are there in our solar system?
    You know me. I wouldn't really take sides.

    Is it 8 or 9?


    --
    The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
    to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
    and challenge the unchallengeable.

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  • From Maciej Wozniak@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 24 07:21:49 2025
    W dniu 24.01.2025 o 00:06, Jim Pennino pisze:
    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast
    research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

    Apparently, all the experiments and math are beyond your comprhension.


    Speaking about math - it's always good to remind
    that your bunch of idiots had to deny its oldest,
    very important and successful part - as it didn't
    want to fit the madness of your idiot guru.






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  • From The Starmaker@21:1/5 to LaurenceClarkCrossen on Thu Jan 23 22:47:50 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 5:35:59 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    I'm on it!


    Now that you are "on it", I just want to know who side you are on...


    How many planets are there in our solar system?
    You know me. I wouldn't really take sides.

    Not taking sides is in fact taking sides with the prevailing vote...8.


    That is the number of how many planets You believe there in our solar
    system.


    You have uncritically and thoughtlessly embrace this idea without a
    second thought that
    there are 8 planets in out solor system. This is very pathetic, slavish,
    and avoidable of you.

    Shame on you, Clark.











    --
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    to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
    and challenge the unchallengeable.

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  • From Thomas Heger@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 24 09:06:56 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Am Donnerstag000023, 23.01.2025 um 19:05 schrieb The Starmaker:
    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    No.

    You are free to think whatever you like.

    But it is not really recommended to actually believe what your TV,
    teacher or professors tell you.

    But it's also not recommended to contradict.

    Better would be to nod and say 'yes' to everything and shout 'f*** you'
    later.


    TH

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  • From The Starmaker@21:1/5 to Thomas Heger on Fri Jan 24 10:29:10 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Thomas Heger wrote:

    Am Donnerstag000023, 23.01.2025 um 19:05 schrieb The Starmaker:
    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    No.

    You are free to think whatever you like.

    But it is not really recommended to actually believe what your TV,
    teacher or professors tell you.

    But it's also not recommended to contradict.

    Better would be to nod and say 'yes' to everything and shout 'f*** you' later.

    TH

    So tell us what you really think, How many planets are there in our
    solar system?


    --
    The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
    to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
    and challenge the unchallengeable.

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  • From The Starmaker@21:1/5 to Physfitfreak on Fri Jan 24 10:31:22 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Physfitfreak wrote:

    On 1/23/25 4:05 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    The idea that space
    expands or curves is a case of extraordinarily deceptive marketing. What kind of fool would defend this deceitfulness by accusing the critic of propounding conspiracy theory?

    Keep this crap inside relativity forum, and that means out of the sci.physics. We may treat this place as a lounge, which it is in fact.
    But it is not a place for mentally handicapped.


    How many freaks fit in fhysics????



    --
    The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
    to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
    and challenge the unchallengeable.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From The Starmaker@21:1/5 to Physfitfreak on Fri Jan 24 12:43:33 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Physfitfreak wrote:

    On 1/24/25 12:31 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
    Physfitfreak wrote:

    On 1/23/25 4:05 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    The idea that space
    expands or curves is a case of extraordinarily deceptive marketing. What >>> kind of fool would defend this deceitfulness by accusing the critic of >>> propounding conspiracy theory?

    Keep this crap inside relativity forum, and that means out of the
    sci.physics. We may treat this place as a lounge, which it is in fact.
    But it is not a place for mentally handicapped.


    How many freaks fit in fhysics????




    There's only one freak in sci.physics. Me. I'm so much into physical
    fitness that I've become a freak about it.

    You bozos who grab your little two pound dumbbells and "jog" for an
    exercise do not know shit about exercise.

    Got out of your den and walk 10 miles this afternoon. That's a start.


    Don't tell any girl you post in a Physics newsgroup...she gonna think
    you talk Gym.


    (and don't say dumbbell in front of her...)


    she might stab you with a kitchen knife..


    YOU FUCKING DUMBBELL WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING????





    --
    The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
    to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
    and challenge the unchallengeable.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Fri Jan 24 21:40:29 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and
    thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual weaklings who
    couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't accept
    curved space for a second.
    Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have understood
    that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it
    stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and
    forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that parallel
    lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation for the
    doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person
    would have balked at such an irrational assumption and recognized him as
    a foolish fellow.

    Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They will
    never intersect.
    You did not understand. Even Paul recently acknowledged that space is
    not a surface. Then, we should understand that space does not curve.
    Claiming it does is an unmistakable example of the reification fallacy,
    where an abstraction is confused with the physical. The derivation of
    the doubling is a clear case of this, making it an invalid derivation.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to The Starmaker on Fri Jan 24 21:30:12 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 5:35:59 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    I'm on it!


    Now that you are "on it", I just want to know who side you are on...


    How many planets are there in our solar system?
    I would point out that the idea that universities prioritize teaching
    what sells tuition over teaching good science is not a conspiracy
    theory. It's just a profitable thing to do when people want to purchase prestige instead of knowledge.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Jim Pennino on Fri Jan 24 21:44:59 2025
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:06:50 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast
    research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

    Apparently, all the experiments and math are beyond your comprhension.
    Certainly, the simple logic is beyond your comprehension.

    Do you think the experiments have proven that parallel lines meet? They
    would have to meet for space to curve. You are not addressing the issue,
    which is not the experiments, but the derivation. Experiments cannot
    prove the derivation is sound. I have shown it is not sound and cannot
    predict. The Einstein equation merely differs from the Newtonian by
    changing the "2" into a "4." The problem is that it is a non-Euclidean
    curved space. That is fiction.

    Einstein's derivation of the doubling involved the petitio principii of presuming parallel lines meet to conclude space curves. Math cannot bend
    space because space is not a surface. That would be the reification
    fallacy. The math is non-Euclidean and only valid for surfaces other
    than plane surfaces. Relativity predicts that if parallel lines meet,
    then space is curved, and light is deflected by curved space. The
    derivation is not valid. Space does not bend.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Jim Pennino on Fri Jan 24 21:51:59 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:06:50 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast
    research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

    Apparently, all the experiments and math are beyond your comprhension.
    Clearly, you have not comprehended the logic.

    Einstein's derivation of the doubling involved the petitio principii of presuming parallel lines meet to conclude space curves. Math cannot bend
    space because space is not a surface. That would be the reification
    fallacy. The math is non-Euclidean and only valid for surfaces other
    than plane surfaces. Relativity predicts that if parallel lines meet,
    then space is curved, and light is deflected by curved space. The
    derivation is not valid because space does not bend.

    Do you think the experiments have proven that parallel lines meet? They
    would have to meet for space to curve. You are not addressing the issue,
    which is not the experiments but the derivation. Experiments cannot
    prove the derivation is sound. I have shown it is not sound and cannot
    predict. Non-Euclidean math is well-known and irrelevant because it
    cannot cause space to curve. The Einstein equation merely differs from
    the Newtonian by
    changing the "2" into a "4." The problem is that it is a non-Euclidean
    curved space. That is fiction.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Fri Jan 24 22:11:03 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and
    thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual weaklings who
    couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't accept
    curved space for a second.
    Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have understood
    that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it
    stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and
    forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that parallel
    lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation for the
    doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person
    would have balked at such an irrational assumption and recognized him as
    a foolish fellow.

    Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They will
    never intersect.
    You presume space can be treated as a surface. That is a petitio
    principii. You presume it's curved to conclude it's curved. It's not a
    surface and its not curved.

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  • From Jim Pennino@21:1/5 to LaurenceClarkCrossen on Fri Jan 24 14:46:07 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:06:50 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast
    research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

    Apparently, all the experiments and math are beyond your comprhension.
    Clearly, you have not comprehended the logic.

    Clearly, you are a babbling kook.

    *PLONK*

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Jim Pennino@21:1/5 to LaurenceClarkCrossen on Fri Jan 24 14:44:38 2025
    LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:06:50 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal.



    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast
    research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

    Apparently, all the experiments and math are beyond your comprhension.
    Certainly, the simple logic is beyond your comprehension.

    Do you think the experiments have proven that parallel lines meet?

    No, and the fact that you ask such a silly question just proves that
    all the experiments and math are beyond your comprhension.

    <snip remaining kook babble unread>

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  • From Thomas Heger@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 25 07:54:54 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Am Freitag000024, 24.01.2025 um 19:29 schrieb The Starmaker:

    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    No.

    You are free to think whatever you like.

    But it is not really recommended to actually believe what your TV,
    teacher or professors tell you.

    But it's also not recommended to contradict.

    Better would be to nod and say 'yes' to everything and shout 'f*** you'
    later.

    TH

    So tell us what you really think, How many planets are there in our
    solar system?

    No, but I can tell you where the sun doesn't shine.

    TH

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  • From Thomas Heger@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 25 07:53:16 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Am Freitag000024, 24.01.2025 um 19:14 schrieb Physfitfreak:
    ...
    You are free to think whatever you like.

    But it is not really recommended to actually believe what your TV,
    teacher or professors tell you.

    But it's also not recommended to contradict.

    Better would be to nod and say 'yes' to everything and shout 'f***
    you' later.


    TH


    Which means, Europeans are becoming Sheep too. Being Bitches of USA is
    still better than being Sheep, but... you don't even have that for long.

    Don't know how you relate your reply to my statement.

    i simply wanted to express, that it is not recommended to contradict
    what you are requested to believe from textbooks, tv or your teacher.

    You should simply not, say yes and repeat when asked to, but never
    actually believe a single word of that crap.

    Actually it's all fraud and fake and almost nothing is like what you are
    told.

    The relations of USA to EU is not quite related to this problem, but
    maybe I should reply to that statement, too.

    Germany, where I live, has lost too devastating wars against the USA
    (mainly) assisted by their partners Russia and England (and partially
    France).

    Germans are sick of wars and have no intentions at all to participate in
    any war whatsoever, which the USA, Russia or the UK wage anywhere upon
    this planet against any nation.

    We simply do not want wars, especially not with Russia and even more
    especially not in favor of the Ukraine, because that was a corrupted
    gangster paradise.

    TH

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  • From The Starmaker@21:1/5 to Thomas Heger on Sat Jan 25 09:44:02 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Thomas Heger wrote:

    Am Freitag000024, 24.01.2025 um 19:29 schrieb The Starmaker:

    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    No.

    You are free to think whatever you like.

    But it is not really recommended to actually believe what your TV,
    teacher or professors tell you.

    But it's also not recommended to contradict.

    Better would be to nod and say 'yes' to everything and shout 'f*** you'
    later.

    TH

    So tell us what you really think, How many planets are there in our
    solar system?

    No, but I can tell you where the sun doesn't shine.


    Did you cut and paste that?


    It's embarrassing isn't it? When you just revealed that you are tooo
    afraid to say how many planets
    are in our own solar system.

    It better to keep it to yourself than let others know the cabal does
    your thinking for you...

    and it's worse if you cut and paste their answers.

    It's embarrassing.



    They think, therefore you are.


    lemmings.


    ugh




    --
    The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
    to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
    and challenge the unchallengeable.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Chris M. Thomasson on Sat Jan 25 21:05:31 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 0:39:40 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/24/2025 2:11 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass
    baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic
    attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error >>>>>>> that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities
    convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent,
    such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and
    thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>>>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>>>>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal. >>>>>>


    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual weaklings who >>>>> couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't accept >>>>> curved space for a second.
    Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have understood >>>> that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it
    stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and
    forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that parallel >>>> lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation for the >>>> doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person
    would have balked at such an irrational assumption and recognized him as >>>> a foolish fellow.

    Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They will
    never intersect.
    You presume space can be treated as a surface. That is a petitio
    principii. You presume it's curved to conclude it's curved. It's not a
    surface and its not curved.

    If it was curved a bit, then I can see how two parallel lines might
    intersect at a point at infinity, so to speak, in a strange sense. It's strange to me. When I plot field individual lines in one of my
    experimental fields, they never intersect even though they twist and
    turn through the field...
    Fields can curve while space cannot.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Jim Pennino on Sat Jan 25 21:03:20 2025
    On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:46:07 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:06:50 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>>>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal. >>>>>


    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast
    research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

    Apparently, all the experiments and math are beyond your comprhension.
    Clearly, you have not comprehended the logic.

    Clearly, you are a babbling kook.

    *PLONK*
    Ad hominem is a failure to reason.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Python on Sat Jan 25 21:15:42 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:11:08 +0000, Python wrote:

    Le 25/01/2025 à 22:05, clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) a écrit
    :
    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 0:39:40 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/24/2025 2:11 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass >>>>>>>>> baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic >>>>>>>>> attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>>>>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error >>>>>>>>> that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities
    convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, >>>>>>>>> such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and
    thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>>>>>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>>>>>>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal. >>>>>>>>


    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual weaklings who >>>>>>> couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't accept >>>>>>> curved space for a second.
    Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have understood >>>>>> that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it >>>>>> stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and >>>>>> forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that parallel >>>>>> lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation for the >>>>>> doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person >>>>>> would have balked at such an irrational assumption and recognized him as >>>>>> a foolish fellow.

    Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They will >>>>> never intersect.
    You presume space can be treated as a surface. That is a petitio
    principii. You presume it's curved to conclude it's curved. It's not a >>>> surface and its not curved.

    If it was curved a bit, then I can see how two parallel lines might
    intersect at a point at infinity, so to speak, in a strange sense. It's
    strange to me. When I plot field individual lines in one of my
    experimental fields, they never intersect even though they twist and
    turn through the field...
    Fields can curve while space cannot.

    "Laurence", what is your level of education in maths? Just asking.
    It doesn't matter because math can't bend space. Anyone who thinks it
    can is incompetent in physics. For example, Einstein.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Jim Pennino on Sat Jan 25 21:22:03 2025
    On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:46:07 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:06:50 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:

    In sci.physics LaurenceClarkCrossen <clzb93ynxj@att.net> wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and thoughtlessly >>>>>> embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>>>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal. >>>>>


    People are so scientifically ignorant that they can be taxed for vast
    research grants on the pretext that space expands and is curved.

    Apparently, all the experiments and math are beyond your comprhension.
    Clearly, you have not comprehended the logic.

    Clearly, you are a babbling kook.

    *PLONK*
    None of you have been able to defend the derivation of the doubling. You
    have not even attempted to grapple with the logic. How can parallel
    lines meet when space is not a surface and cannot curve? What is alleged
    to cause space to bend? Math?

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Python on Sat Jan 25 21:14:04 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 2:33:23 +0000, Python wrote:

    Le 24/01/2025 à 23:11, clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) a écrit
    :
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles. >>>>>>> How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain >>>>>>> prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a >>>>>>> child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing >>>>>>> people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as >>>>>>> expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and
    thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>>>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>>>>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal. >>>>>>


    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual weaklings who >>>>> couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't accept >>>>> curved space for a second.
    Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have understood >>>> that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it
    stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and
    forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that parallel >>>> lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation for the >>>> doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person
    would have balked at such an irrational assumption and recognized him as >>>> a foolish fellow.

    Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They will
    never intersect.
    You presume space can be treated as a surface. That is a petitio
    principii. You presume it's curved to conclude it's curved. It's not a
    surface and its not curved.

    Your "petitio principii" is that a 3D space, or a 4D space-time can be "curved" the same way a surface can be. Why that?
    What are you trying to ask or say? How can space be curved? It can't be
    curved at all. That is the reification fallacy.

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  • From LaurenceClarkCrossen@21:1/5 to Python on Sat Jan 25 21:39:20 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:23:51 +0000, Python wrote:

    Le 25/01/2025 à 22:14, clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) a écrit
    :
    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 2:33:23 +0000, Python wrote:

    Le 24/01/2025 à 23:11, clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) a écrit >>> :
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for fortunes? The >>>>>>>>> reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and
    thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very pathetic, >>>>>>>>> slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by the ...'textbooks >>>>>>>> monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A cabal. >>>>>>>>


    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual weaklings who >>>>>>> couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't accept >>>>>>> curved space for a second.
    Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have understood >>>>>> that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it >>>>>> stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and >>>>>> forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that parallel >>>>>> lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation for the >>>>>> doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person >>>>>> would have balked at such an irrational assumption and recognized him as >>>>>> a foolish fellow.

    Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They will >>>>> never intersect.
    You presume space can be treated as a surface. That is a petitio
    principii. You presume it's curved to conclude it's curved. It's not a >>>> surface and its not curved.

    Your "petitio principii" is that a 3D space, or a 4D space-time can be
    "curved" the same way a surface can be. Why that?
    What are you trying to ask or say? How can space be curved? It can't be
    curved at all. That is the reification fallacy.

    Because you say so? LOL.
    That is not what I said. Why is it not a reification fallacy? Because
    you say so? It is, by definition, a reification fallacy because it
    confuses the abstract with the physical. What are you saying is curved?
    Vacuum? A field?

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  • From Maciej Wozniak@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 25 22:50:29 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    W dniu 25.01.2025 o 22:11, Python pisze:
    Le 25/01/2025 à 22:05, clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) a écrit :
    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 0:39:40 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/24/2025 2:11 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass >>>>>>>>> baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic >>>>>>>>> attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for
    fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error >>>>>>>>> that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities
    convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, >>>>>>>>> such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and
    thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very
    pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by
    the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A
    cabal.



    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual
    weaklings who
    couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't
    accept
    curved space for a second.
    Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have
    understood
    that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it >>>>>> stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and >>>>>> forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that
    parallel
    lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation
    for the
    doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person >>>>>> would have balked at such an irrational assumption and recognized
    him as
    a foolish fellow.

    Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They will >>>>> never intersect.
    You presume space can be treated as a surface. That is a petitio
    principii. You presume it's curved to conclude it's curved. It's not a >>>> surface and its not curved.

    If it was curved a bit, then I can see how two parallel lines might
    intersect at a point at infinity, so to speak, in a strange sense. It's
    strange to me. When I plot field individual lines in one of my
    experimental fields, they never intersect even though they twist and
    turn through the field...
    Fields can curve while space cannot.

    "Laurence", what is your level of education in maths? Just asking.


    But whatever you say - Poincare had enough wit
    to understand how idiotic rejecting Euclid
    would be, and he has written it clearly
    enough for anyone able to read (even if not
    clearly enough for you, poor stinker).



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  • From Maciej Wozniak@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 25 23:25:41 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    W dniu 25.01.2025 o 23:10, Python pisze:
    Le 25/01/2025 à 22:50, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
    W dniu 25.01.2025 o 22:11, Python pisze:
    Le 25/01/2025 à 22:05, clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) a
    écrit :
    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 0:39:40 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/24/2025 2:11 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote: >>>>>>>>
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote:

    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass >>>>>>>>>>> baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic >>>>>>>>>>> attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for
    fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error >>>>>>>>>>> that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities >>>>>>>>>>> convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, >>>>>>>>>>> such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and >>>>>>>>>>> thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very >>>>>>>>>>> pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by
    the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers)

    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel.


    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A >>>>>>>>>> cabal.



    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual
    weaklings who
    couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't >>>>>>>>> accept
    curved space for a second.
    Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have
    understood
    that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it >>>>>>>> stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and >>>>>>>> forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that
    parallel
    lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation >>>>>>>> for the
    doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person >>>>>>>> would have balked at such an irrational assumption and
    recognized him as
    a foolish fellow.

    Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They >>>>>>> will
    never intersect.
    You presume space can be treated as a surface. That is a petitio
    principii. You presume it's curved to conclude it's curved. It's
    not a
    surface and its not curved.

    If it was curved a bit, then I can see how two parallel lines might
    intersect at a point at infinity, so to speak, in a strange sense.
    It's
    strange to me. When I plot field individual lines in one of my
    experimental fields, they never intersect even though they twist and >>>>> turn through the field...
    Fields can curve while space cannot.

    "Laurence", what is your level of education in maths? Just asking.


    But whatever you say - Poincare had enough wit
    to understand how idiotic rejecting Euclid
    would be, and he has written it clearly
    enough for anyone able to read (even if not
    clearly enough for you)

    Still confused Woz?

    No, Pyt.


    Nobody is "rejecting Euclid"

    A lie. Of course.

    BTW, so, how do you recognize a space geodesic?
    Still no answer, poor stinker? For sure,
    spitting and slandering the enemies of your
    church is much easier than answerring their
    questions, isn't it?

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  • From Maciej Wozniak@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 26 07:47:37 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    W dniu 25.01.2025 o 23:30, Python pisze:
    Le 25/01/2025 à 23:25, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
    W dniu 25.01.2025 o 23:10, Python pisze:
    Le 25/01/2025 à 22:50, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
    W dniu 25.01.2025 o 22:11, Python pisze:
    Le 25/01/2025 à 22:05, clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) a
    écrit :
    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 0:39:40 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/24/2025 2:11 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote: >>>>>>>>>>
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>
    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass >>>>>>>>>>>>> baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic >>>>>>>>>>>>> logic
    attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for >>>>>>>>>>>>> fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish >>>>>>>>>>>>> error
    that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities >>>>>>>>>>>>> convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, >>>>>>>>>>>>> such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and >>>>>>>>>>>>> thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very >>>>>>>>>>>>> pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by
    the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers) >>>>>>>>>>>>
    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel. >>>>>>>>>>>>

    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? >>>>>>>>>>>> A cabal.



    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual >>>>>>>>>>> weaklings who
    couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they
    wouldn't accept
    curved space for a second.
    Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have >>>>>>>>>> understood
    that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? >>>>>>>>>> Isn't it
    stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest >>>>>>>>>> and
    forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that >>>>>>>>>> parallel
    lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our
    derivation for the
    doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable >>>>>>>>>> person
    would have balked at such an irrational assumption and
    recognized him as
    a foolish fellow.

    Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface.
    They will
    never intersect.
    You presume space can be treated as a surface. That is a petitio >>>>>>>> principii. You presume it's curved to conclude it's curved. It's >>>>>>>> not a
    surface and its not curved.

    If it was curved a bit, then I can see how two parallel lines might >>>>>>> intersect at a point at infinity, so to speak, in a strange
    sense. It's
    strange to me. When I plot field individual lines in one of my
    experimental fields, they never intersect even though they twist and >>>>>>> turn through the field...
    Fields can curve while space cannot.

    "Laurence", what is your level of education in maths? Just asking.


    But whatever you say - Poincare had enough wit
    to understand how idiotic rejecting Euclid
    would be, and he has written it clearly
    enough for anyone able to read (even if not
    clearly enough for you)

    Still confused Woz?

    No, Pyt.

    Still you are.

    Nobody is "rejecting Euclid"

    A lie. Of course.

    Because you say so? I checked: nobody is "rejecting Euclid".

    Because you say so? I checked: every relativistic
    knight is rejecting Euclid. And many of them are
    doctoring "evidence" against Euclid.



    BTW, so, how do you recognize a space geodesic?

    If you want to know, learn.

    I did. You didn't, so still no answer.
    For sure, spitting and slandering the
    enemies of your church is much easier
    than answerring their questions, isn't
    it, poor stinker?


    I'm sad for nurses who have to clean your dirty pants every morning. But there is nothing I can do about that, unfortunately.

    slander
    noun
    1
    : the utterance of false charges or misrepresentations which defame and
    damage another's reputation


    BTW, Woz, what is your level of education in math? :-)

    It is good enough, Pyt.

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  • From Maciej Wozniak@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 26 21:02:00 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    W dniu 26.01.2025 o 15:42, Richard Hachel pisze:
    Le 26/01/2025 à 07:47, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
    W dniu 25.01.2025 o 23:30, Python pisze:

    BTW, Woz, what is your level of education in math? :-)

    It is good enough, Pyt.

    In physics, he is unable to understand the difference between a proper,
    real, and observable time.

    Of course he is unable; if a relatyivistic idiot
    was able to understand the difference between his
    delusions and the reality - he wouldn't be a
    relativistic idiot.

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  • From Paul B. Andersen@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 27 11:13:56 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Den 25.01.2025 22:15, skrev LaurenceClarkCrossen:
    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 21:11:08 +0000, Python wrote:


    "Laurence", what is your level of education in maths? Just asking.

    It doesn't matter because math can't bend space. Anyone who thinks it
    can is incompetent in physics. For example, Einstein.

    What an idiotic statement! :-D

    Math does obviously not curve space.
    In GR it is matter and energy that curve spacetime.
    GR is a mathematical model which is able to predict what
    will be measured in space and time in the real world.
    That's the only point with theories of physics.
    The validity of a theory depend on its ability to
    correctly predict what will be measured in experiments.

    GR is thoroughly tested and never falsified.


    Remember this statement of yours?
    "It is sad that you can't recognize that non-Euclidean geometry applied
    to space is a reification fallacy because space is not a surface."

    This rather funny statement of yours reveals that the only
    non-Euclidean geometry you know is Gaussian geometry.

    Loosely explained, Gaussian geometry is about surfaces in 3-dimentinal Euclidean space. The shape of the surface is defined by a function
    f(x,y,z) where x,y,z are Cartesian coordinates.

    Note that we must use three coordinates to describe a 2-dimentional
    surface.

    ----

    Riemannian geometry is more general.
    Loosely explained, Riemannian geometry is about manifolds (spaces)
    of any dimensions. The "shape" of the manifold is described by
    the metric.

    The metric describes the length of a line element.

    The metric describing a flat 2D surface is:
    ds² = dx² + dy² (if Pythagoras is valid, the surface is flat)

    The metric describing a 2D spherical surface is:
    ds² = dθ² + sin²θ⋅dφ²

    Note that only two coordinates are needed to describe the surface.
    The coordinates are _in_ the surface, not in a 3D-space.

    ----------

    The metric for a "flat 3D-space" (Euclidean space) is:
    ds² = dx² + dy² + dy² (Pythagoras again!)

    The metric for a 3D-sphere is:
    ds² = dr² + r²dθ² + r²sin²θ⋅dφ²

    Note that only three coordinates are needed to describe
    the shape of a 3D space.

    ----------

    In spacetime geometry there is a four dimensional manifold called
    spacetime. The spacetime metric has four coordinates, one temporal
    and four spatial.

    The metric for a static flat spacetime is:
    ds² = − (c⋅dt)² + dx² + dy² + dz²

    If ds² is positive, the line element ds is space-like,
    If ds² is negative, the line element ds is time-like.

    In the latter case it is better to write the metric:
    (c⋅dτ)² = (c⋅dt)² − dx² − dy² − dz²

    If there is a mass present (Sun, Earth) spacetime will be curved.

    The metric for spacetime in the vicinity of a spherical mass is:
    See equation (2) in
    https://paulba.no/pdf/Clock_rate.pdf

    Note that there are four coordinates, t, r, θ and ϕ

    --------------------

    So to your parallel lines which you claim have to meet in curved space.

    Two points:
    1. In spacetime geometry, it is spacetime that is curved.

    2. What is a "line"? In Euclidean geometry we would say
    "a straight line". A more precise expression is a "geodesic line".

    In spacetime geometry the definition of "geodesic line" is rather
    complicated.
    But all free falling objects, including photons, are moving along
    geodesic lines. So let us consider light beams (the trajectory of
    a photon).

    Far out in space, where spacetime is quite flat,
    we have two parallel light beams.
    These light beam pass on either side of the Sun,
    where spacetime is curved.
    The light beams are gracing the Sun, and will be
    gravitationally deflected by 1.75".
    The light beams will then meet 274 AU after they passed the Sun.

    Parallel geodesic lines may meet.

    Conclusion:
    If mass is present, spacetime is curved.

    But remember, spacetime is an entity in the mathematical model GR.

    It is meaningless to ask if "spacetime" really exist.
    The point is that the mathematical GR correctly predicts
    what will be measured in the real space and time.

    --
    Paul

    https://paulba.no/

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  • From The Starmaker@21:1/5 to Physfitfreak on Mon Jan 27 11:02:12 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Physfitfreak wrote:

    On 1/24/25 2:43 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
    Physfitfreak wrote:

    On 1/24/25 12:31 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
    Physfitfreak wrote:

    On 1/23/25 4:05 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    The idea that space
    expands or curves is a case of extraordinarily deceptive marketing. What
    kind of fool would defend this deceitfulness by accusing the critic of >>>>> propounding conspiracy theory?

    Keep this crap inside relativity forum, and that means out of the
    sci.physics. We may treat this place as a lounge, which it is in fact. >>>> But it is not a place for mentally handicapped.


    How many freaks fit in fhysics????




    There's only one freak in sci.physics. Me. I'm so much into physical
    fitness that I've become a freak about it.

    You bozos who grab your little two pound dumbbells and "jog" for an
    exercise do not know shit about exercise.

    Got out of your den and walk 10 miles this afternoon. That's a start.


    Don't tell any girl you post in a Physics newsgroup...she gonna think
    you talk Gym.


    (and don't say dumbbell in front of her...)


    she might stab you with a kitchen knife..


    YOU FUCKING DUMBBELL WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING????






    Why, is there another meaning to dumbbell? Don't cute women take their
    cute pink little dumbbells and jog outside to feel exercised?

    Tell those "cute pink little dumbbells" you see and say "You are suchs a
    cute pink little dumbbell."


    don't forget to duck...


    --
    The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
    to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
    and challenge the unchallengeable.

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  • From J. J. Lodder@21:1/5 to Python on Sat Feb 1 23:28:11 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Python <jp@python.invalid> wrote:

    Le 25/01/2025 à 23:25, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
    W dniu 25.01.2025 o 23:10, Python pisze:
    Le 25/01/2025 à 22:50, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
    W dniu 25.01.2025 o 22:11, Python pisze:
    Le 25/01/2025 à 22:05, clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) a
    écrit :
    On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 0:39:40 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/24/2025 2:11 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:24:04 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

    On 1/23/2025 2:20 PM, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:47:25 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote: >>>>>>>>>
    On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:05:49 +0000, The Starmaker wrote: >>>>>>>>>>
    LaurenceClarkCrossen wrote:

    It is said that simple people are sometimes impressed by glass >>>>>>>>>>>> baubles.
    How do cheap and stupid, fallacious ideas violating basic logic >>>>>>>>>>>> attain
    prestige values and become marketed at universities for >>>>>>>>>>>> fortunes? The
    reification fallacy is an elementary fallacy and a foolish error >>>>>>>>>>>> that a
    child would know better than. However, we find universities >>>>>>>>>>>> convincing
    people that ideas involving this error are highly intelligent, >>>>>>>>>>>> such as
    expanding and bending space. Then, people uncritically and >>>>>>>>>>>> thoughtlessly
    embrace these ideas without a second thought. This is very >>>>>>>>>>>> pathetic,
    slavish, and avoidable.


    They become marketed at universities for fortunes by
    the ...'textbooks
    monopoly'.

    (of course the teachers textbooks come with the answers) >>>>>>>>>>>
    You need to investigate the 'textbooks monopoly' cartel. >>>>>>>>>>>

    The cabal decides what they want you to think.


    How many planets are there? Who decides the answer for you? A >>>>>>>>>>> cabal.



    The really amusing thing is that people are intellectual >>>>>>>>>> weaklings who
    couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag, or they wouldn't >>>>>>>>>> accept
    curved space for a second.
    Did you ever acknowledge my point that Einstein should have >>>>>>>>> understood
    that parallel lines would have to meet for space to curve? Isn't it >>>>>>>>> stupid as hell not to recognize that? If he had been an honest and >>>>>>>>> forthright person, he would have said we have to presume that >>>>>>>>> parallel
    lines meet to claim space is curved, and this is our derivation >>>>>>>>> for the
    doubling of the Newtonian deflection. Then, every reasonable person >>>>>>>>> would have balked at such an irrational assumption and
    recognized him as
    a foolish fellow.

    Think of drawing two horizontal lines on a spheres surface. They >>>>>>>> will
    never intersect.
    You presume space can be treated as a surface. That is a petitio >>>>>>> principii. You presume it's curved to conclude it's curved. It's >>>>>>> not a
    surface and its not curved.

    If it was curved a bit, then I can see how two parallel lines might >>>>>> intersect at a point at infinity, so to speak, in a strange sense. >>>>>> It's
    strange to me. When I plot field individual lines in one of my
    experimental fields, they never intersect even though they twist and >>>>>> turn through the field...
    Fields can curve while space cannot.

    "Laurence", what is your level of education in maths? Just asking.


    But whatever you say - Poincare had enough wit
    to understand how idiotic rejecting Euclid
    would be, and he has written it clearly
    enough for anyone able to read (even if not
    clearly enough for you)

    Still confused Woz?

    No, Pyt.

    Still you are.

    Nobody is "rejecting Euclid"

    A lie. Of course.

    Because you say so? I checked: nobody is "rejecting Euclid".

    Indeed, and au contraire:
    Nowadays Euclidean geometry is -defined- as that kind of geometry
    in which the Pythagorean theorem holds.
    (nothing about // lines intersecting at infinity)
    It becomes a theorem that there are lines that do not intersect.

    Jan

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  • From Maciej Wozniak@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 2 08:34:08 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    W dniu 01.02.2025 o 23:28, J. J. Lodder pisze:

    Nobody is "rejecting Euclid"

    A lie. Of course.

    Because you say so? I checked: nobody is "rejecting Euclid".

    Indeed, and au contraire:

    Nowadays Euclidean geometry is -defined- as that kind of geometry
    in which the Pythagorean theorem holds.

    And - according to the teachings of your moronic church -
    does Pythagorean theorem hold? For real?
    Poor stinker Python has never answerred, he's always
    dodging and changing the subject. How about you?

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  • From J. J. Lodder@21:1/5 to Maciej Wozniak on Sun Feb 2 11:39:19 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> wrote:

    W dniu 01.02.2025 o 23:28, J. J. Lodder pisze:

    Nobody is "rejecting Euclid"

    A lie. Of course.

    Because you say so? I checked: nobody is "rejecting Euclid".

    Indeed, and au contraire:

    Nowadays Euclidean geometry is -defined- as that kind of geometry
    in which the Pythagorean theorem holds.

    And - according to the teachings of your moronic church -
    does Pythagorean theorem hold? For real?
    Poor stinker Python has never answerred, he's always
    dodging and changing the subject. How about you?

    You might have noticed that I make it a habit
    of never replying to your silly rants.
    I'll make an exception for once,
    because you are trying to mislead the innocent kiddies
    who might stray in here.

    Of course the Pythagorean theorem holds -in Euclidean geometry-.
    A forteriori, it -defines- Euclidean geometry, nowadays.

    It does of course not hold in any other kind of geometry,
    by definition,

    Jan

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  • From Bertietaylor@21:1/5 to J. J. Lodder on Sun Feb 2 11:13:25 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 10:39:19 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

    Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> wrote:

    W dniu 01.02.2025 o 23:28, J. J. Lodder pisze:

    Nobody is "rejecting Euclid"

    A lie. Of course.

    Because you say so? I checked: nobody is "rejecting Euclid".

    Indeed, and au contraire:

    Nowadays Euclidean geometry is -defined- as that kind of geometry
    in which the Pythagorean theorem holds.

    And - according to the teachings of your moronic church -
    does Pythagorean theorem hold? For real?
    Poor stinker Python has never answerred, he's always
    dodging and changing the subject. How about you?

    You might have noticed that I make it a habit
    of never replying to your silly rants.
    I'll make an exception for once,
    because you are trying to mislead the innocent kiddies
    who might stray in here.

    Of course the Pythagorean theorem holds -in Euclidean geometry-.
    A forteriori, it -defines- Euclidean geometry, nowadays.

    The Pythagoras theorem is just that. Euclidean geometry is defined by
    axioms or self-evident and unquestionable truths upon which all theorems
    are derived. Not the other way around.

    It does of course not hold in any other kind of geometry,
    by definition,

    All other geometries are mappings based on Euclidean geometry, if we are talking engineering sense.



    Jan

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  • From Maciej Wozniak@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 2 13:41:05 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    W dniu 02.02.2025 o 11:39, J. J. Lodder pisze:
    Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> wrote:

    W dniu 01.02.2025 o 23:28, J. J. Lodder pisze:

    Nobody is "rejecting Euclid"

    A lie. Of course.

    Because you say so? I checked: nobody is "rejecting Euclid".

    Indeed, and au contraire:

    Nowadays Euclidean geometry is -defined- as that kind of geometry
    in which the Pythagorean theorem holds.

    And - according to the teachings of your moronic church -
    does Pythagorean theorem hold? For real?
    Poor stinker Python has never answerred, he's always
    dodging and changing the subject. How about you?

    You might have noticed that I make it a habit
    of never replying to your silly rants.
    I'll make an exception for once,
    because you are trying to mislead the innocent kiddies
    who might stray in here.

    Of course the Pythagorean theorem holds -in Euclidean geometry-.

    I was not asking whether it holds in Euclidean geometry.
    Flat Earth holds - in flat Earth theory, poor halfbrain.
    No surprise in that.
    I was asking whether it holds for real (according to
    you and your brothers in Einstein, of course).
    Will you answer? No more moronic dodging? For innocent
    kiddies?


    A forteriori, it -defines- Euclidean geometry, nowadays.


    Flat Earth defines flat Earth theory, creationism
    defines creationism theory and so on.
    And somehow that doesn't mean you didn't reject
    them, right? Or maybe it does?



    It does of course not hold in any other kind of geometry,
    by definition,


    And - does it hold for real? Or have your bunch of
    idiots rejected it? It would be good indeed for
    innocent kiddies if you start admitting that for
    nothing more than a plain assertion of your idiot
    guru you had to reject basic math.

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  • From J. J. Lodder@21:1/5 to Bertietaylor on Sun Feb 2 21:30:16 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    Bertietaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 10:39:19 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

    Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> wrote:

    W dniu 01.02.2025 o 23:28, J. J. Lodder pisze:

    Nobody is "rejecting Euclid"

    A lie. Of course.

    Because you say so? I checked: nobody is "rejecting Euclid".

    Indeed, and au contraire:

    Nowadays Euclidean geometry is -defined- as that kind of geometry
    in which the Pythagorean theorem holds.

    And - according to the teachings of your moronic church -
    does Pythagorean theorem hold? For real?
    Poor stinker Python has never answerred, he's always
    dodging and changing the subject. How about you?

    You might have noticed that I make it a habit
    of never replying to your silly rants.
    I'll make an exception for once,
    because you are trying to mislead the innocent kiddies
    who might stray in here.

    Of course the Pythagorean theorem holds -in Euclidean geometry-.
    A forteriori, it -defines- Euclidean geometry, nowadays.

    The Pythagoras theorem is just that. Euclidean geometry is defined by
    axioms or self-evident and unquestionable truths upon which all theorems
    are derived. Not the other way around.

    What is axiom, and what is theorem,
    is in some cases merely a matter of taste.
    The // axiom-theorem is a case in point.
    You can take it as an axiom, and prove Pythagoras,
    or you can take Pythagoras, and prove the //-theorem.

    And FYI, the // axiom was never accepted as 'self-evident',
    by the most mathematicians.
    There have been lots of attempts to prove it from the other axioms,
    until Gauss and others proved that this is a futile excercise,
    by showing that it is an independent axiom that you can leave or take.

    It does of course not hold in any other kind of geometry,
    by definition,

    All other geometries are mappings based on Euclidean geometry, if we are talking engineering sense.

    The // axiom/theorem has nothing to do with engineering. [1]
    OTOH, Pythagoras does,

    Jan

    [1] Engineers don't build infinitely large structures.

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  • From Bertietaylor@21:1/5 to J. J. Lodder on Mon Feb 3 02:38:50 2025
    XPost: sci.physics.relativity

    On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 20:30:16 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

    Bertietaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 10:39:19 +0000, J. J. Lodder wrote:

    Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> wrote:

    W dniu 01.02.2025 o 23:28, J. J. Lodder pisze:

    Nobody is "rejecting Euclid"

    A lie. Of course.

    Because you say so? I checked: nobody is "rejecting Euclid".

    Indeed, and au contraire:

    Nowadays Euclidean geometry is -defined- as that kind of geometry
    in which the Pythagorean theorem holds.

    And - according to the teachings of your moronic church -
    does Pythagorean theorem hold? For real?
    Poor stinker Python has never answerred, he's always
    dodging and changing the subject. How about you?

    You might have noticed that I make it a habit
    of never replying to your silly rants.
    I'll make an exception for once,
    because you are trying to mislead the innocent kiddies
    who might stray in here.

    Of course the Pythagorean theorem holds -in Euclidean geometry-.
    A forteriori, it -defines- Euclidean geometry, nowadays.

    The Pythagoras theorem is just that. Euclidean geometry is defined by
    axioms or self-evident and unquestionable truths upon which all theorems
    are derived. Not the other way around.

    What is axiom, and what is theorem,
    is in some cases merely a matter of taste.

    No, it is not a matter of taste. It is invincible deductive logic and
    that is not to the taste of those who profit from confusion. That is,
    the e=mcc wallahs.

    The // axiom-theorem is a case in point.
    You can take it as an axiom, and prove Pythagoras,
    or you can take Pythagoras, and prove the //-theorem.

    No. From axioms you find theorems including P.

    And FYI, the // axiom was never accepted as 'self-evident',
    by the most mathematicians.

    Not up to the 70s when they taught Euclid in schools.

    There have been lots of attempts to prove it from the other axioms,
    until Gauss and others proved that this is a futile excercise,
    by showing that it is an independent axiom that you can leave or take.

    It does of course not hold in any other kind of geometry,
    by definition,

    All other geometries are mappings based on Euclidean geometry, if we are
    talking engineering sense.

    The // axiom/theorem has nothing to do with engineering. [1]
    OTOH, Pythagoras does,

    Jan

    [1] Engineers don't build infinitely large structures.

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